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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 38 kilometres (24 mi) south of Nimpkish. A new logging camp was established near Woss Lake which became the ...
Englewood station, commonly referred to as Little Englewood Station, is a former train station in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station served as a stop for the Erie Railroad , Monon Railroad , Wabash Railroad , Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad , and Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad . [ 3 ]
Englewood as a name is a derivation of the local sawmill company's name, Wood & English Logging company. The name survives today as that of the Englewood Railway, the last logging railroad operating in North America, which runs from Beaver Cove to Vernon camp for a total length of 84 miles. [4]
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Forest railway operations in Comandău, Romania (Photograph from 1996). A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felled logs to sawmills or railway stations.
This list includes stations that have been demolished, partially demolished, and stations that are abandoned or closed, but are not open for passenger service. The majority of these stations existed on now demolished "L" lines, but some exist on current lines.
Englewood Union Station was a major rail junction and passenger depot in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Four railroads served the station in its prime – the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, which operated over the New York Central via trackage rights.
It is the northern terminus of the Englewood Railway, which is named via that of the Wood & English Logging Company, whose former logging camp, now abandoned, was Englewood, on the other side of Beaver Cove from today's community.