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| Title | Ostrander Railway and Timber Company three-truck Heisler locomotive no. 5 with log train, ca. 1930 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1930 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Kinsey Photo No. 52
PH Coll 516.2541 |
| Contextual Notes | The sawmill at Ostrander was incorporated in 1893 as the Ostrander Railroad Company. It specialized in sawing long timbers (up to 140 feet long), using a carriage with trailers on a long track. Many of the timbers used in the construction of the Panama Canal came from there. Over 35,000 acres of timberland was purchased around this mill. In the mid-1890s a two-story building was built with a store and post office on the first floor and company offices on the second floor. A hotel was built on the hill above this building and a Methodist church and parsonage were constructed on the hillside. In the latter part of this decade a school was built on a knoll beside a large Maple tree. In 1903 a flume was constructed to carry water from Ostrander Creek to a hydraulic ram that pumped it uphill to a tank, from which the water was piped to employees' houses. The lands around Ostrander were sold to Weyerhauser in 1945.
Ostrander is a community on the Cowlitz River three miles northeast of Longview at the mouth of Ostrander Creek in central Cowlitz County. It was once a thriving sawmill town. In 1898, the name was given by the Northern Pacific Railway for Dr. Nathaniel and Mrs. Eliza Jane Yantis Ostrander who filed for a Donation Land Claim in 1852. Dr. Ostrander who was the first medical doctor in Southwest Washington died in Olympia on February 7, 1902 and Mrs. Ostrander died February 22, 1899.
This particular Heisler (s/n 1501) was built in 1924 for Ostrander Railway & Timber Company locomotive no. 5. By 1944, it was owned by the Big Creek & Telocaset Railroad Company in Telocaset, Oregon.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Logs
Railroad locomotives--Washington (State)
Railroad tracks--Washington(State)
Railroad cars--Washington (State)
Ostrander Railway and Timber Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Heisler locomotives
Logging railroads--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County
Logging--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0447 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 2541
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
