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Elmer Smith was a Centralia lawyer sympathetic to the IWW. A pacifist, Smith strongly encouraged union members to pursue a non-violent course and to try to reach a peaceful arrangement with the other residents of Centralia. He also reached out to the governor to attempt to get him to intervene to prevent a vigilante raid.
Operations and excursions of the railroad are overseen by the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad Museum (CCRM). The museum lost its liability insurance coverage in 2022 to operate the "excursion stream train" due to financial losses stemming from two collision accidents. [7] The museum reopened in 2023 and made repairs to the tracks and the train engine.
A 1952 fire at a pharmaceutical company that was the largest employer in Chehalis led to the formation of a community group known as "Adventure in Cooperation". [1] In addition to a fire at a wood shingle mill in 1953, [2] and the continuation of job losses in the city in the mid-1950s due to a decline in timber production, the volunteer initiative formed the Chehalis Industrial Commission in ...
Mar. 5—The Chehalis Centralia Railroad and Museum on Saturday announced it would suspend all passenger operations until further notice. "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Chehalis ...
Under FELA, railroad workers who are not covered by regular workers' compensation laws are able to sue companies over their injury claims. FELA allows monetary payouts for pain and suffering , decided by juries based on comparative negligence rather than pursuant to a pre-determined benefits schedule under workers' compensation.
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The railroad line may have passed through the ownership of the North Coast Power Company. Some of the track was taken over by the Cowlitz, Chehalis and Cascade Railway Company (CCCRC), a Weyerhaeuser Timber Company subsidiary, and a listing in 1931 mentions that the Twin City Railroad was owned in full by W.E. Brown, the company's president ...