Two of the oldest operating steam-powered locomotives, both used for logging on the North Coast will be in operation for Dolbeer Donkey Days, taking place Saturday and Sunday at Fort Humboldt State ...

A turn of the century, hulking piece of machinery that helped quicken the pace of logging in the Pacific Northwest was dedicated to a Amboy museum Saturday, concluding a project nearly two decades in ...

We imagine loggers as burly men in calk boots, wool shirts and pants trimmed nearly to their boot tops to keep them from snagging on the brush and leftover bramble of their work. We don’t think of ...

To make way for moving the historic locomotive on display in Scotia — which is scheduled to take place Tuesday — a large steam donkey, known as the Washington 12 x 17 Duplex Flyer, was partially ...

TACOMA – For 47 years, the Camp 6 Logging Museum at Point Defiance Park has kept a window open on Western Washington’s steam-logging history. But that window soon might close. The camp and its ...

Big Willy, a renovated steam donkey, comes to life at the historic steam-powered lumber mill Sept. 19-20. After slumbering for decades, Big Willy, the 110-year-old steam “donkey” at west county’s ...

Most of the steam donkeys situated throughout Oregon’s timber country have long since left the forest. The steam-powered winches were critical components of logging operations in the late 1800s and ...