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Englewood Railway is a logging railroad on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. Headquartered in Woss, the line runs from Vernon Lake, through Woss, past Nimpkish Lake Provincial Park to Beaver Cove. It is the last operating logging railroad in North America.〔http://www.wcra.org/features/canfor.htm〕〔http://illahie.blogspot.com/2009/08/englewood-railway-last-logging-railway.html〕 ==History== The demand for wood products during the First World War led to the construction of a pulp mill, sawmill, shingle mill and community at Beaver Cove by ''Beaver Cove Lumber & Pulp Limited'' in 1917, which in turn brought about large-scale railway logging operations in the lower Nimpkish Valley. The active logging company was ''Wood & English'' (owned by the ''Nimpkish Timber Company'') which established a logging camp ('Camp 8', later 'Nimpkish') and logging railway at the head of Nimpkish Lake. The logs cut from this area were hauled by an isolated logging railway, dumped into Nimpkish Lake, then towed down the lake to a reload centre where they were lifted out of the water and finally loaded onto railway cars for a short haul on a second rail line to Beaver Cove. The mill complex at Beaver Cove had a relatively short life, but in 1925 ''Wood & English'' built another sawmill across the bay from the pulp mill, and renamed the community "Englewood"—a combination of the names Wood and English. That mill ceased operation in 1941 and few signs remain of the former mills and community. After this date all logs were dumped in the Beaver Cove booming grounds for towing to mills in the Vancouver area. In 1944 the founders of Canadian Forest Products or ''Canfor'' acquired the timber interests and logging operations in the Nimpkish Valley, which later became known as the ''Englewood Logging Division.'' By 1948, the railway had been extended south of Nimpkish. A new logging camp was established near Woss Lake which became the headquarters and maintenance centre for the railway. A major forest fire in 1952 and the need to salvage the burned over timber led to a further extension of the railway and establishment of the Vernon Lake logging camp and reload facility. Meanwhile, the gap between the two rail lines at Nimpkish Lake continued to exist. Recognizing that the multiple handling of logs was inefficient and costly, in 1957 ''Canfor'' built the rail link along the east side of the lake. Englewood's logging railway line had now reached its full extent, with a main line between Beaver Cove and Vernon and reload sites at Vernon, Maquilla, Woss, and 'Camp A'. The maintenance shops were later relocated from Woss to Nimpkish. The railroad was purchased by Western Forest Products in 2006 and renamed ''Englewood Railway of Western Forest Products''.〔http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/WesternForestProducts.html〕 Over the past decade, all the old wood trestles and bridges have been replaced by steel bridges. Many of the bridges have planked decks to allow logging trucks to cross them. The railway formerly used untreated ties milled locally from yellow cedar, but is now making increasing use of steel ties. In January 1995, a mudslide destroyed part of East Fork Bridge. It was repaired within 2 weeks, and no equipment was damaged or personnel injured.〔http://www.forestnet.com/archives/Nov_96/bridge.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Englewood Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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