The , headquartered in
Longview, Washington , serves an 8½
Mile (14
Km ) route from the
Weyerhaeuser Company mill in Longview to the junction just outside the city limits of
Kelso . From there, traffic is either switched to the
Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad where it is transported to Weyerhaeuser's Green Mountain Sawmill at
Toutle or it is switched to the
BNSF /
Union Pacific joint main line for movement to either
Portland, Oregon , or
Seattle .
CLC was incorporated on
April 9 1925 and the line was constructed between
1926 -
1928 . The railway is a wholly owned subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company. The railway owns a fleet of 500
Freight Car s including a mix of
Boxcar s, centerbeam lumber cars, and
Flat Car s. A fleet of three
EMD GP20 Diesel Locomotive s, which are numbered 700-702, provide road power for the CLC. One
Caboose , numbered 6, provides tail end coverage of trains because CLC does not employ
Flashing Rear End Device s (FREDs).
All CLC freight cars are painted a navy blue color with white lettering and the CLC's locomotives are painted navy blue with white lettering and white pinstripes across the top quarter of the bodies and across the frame sill. The lone caboose is painted safety yellow with black lettering. A signature safety feature of CLC's locomotives is the blue
Strobe Light on the roof of the locomotives. CLC chooses blue as their safety light color because of the large number of yellow and red flashing safety lights around the Weyerhaeuser mill in Longview.
