Western Railroad Discussion > Wood chips

Who can still receive wood chips by rail in the Pacific Northwest?

Mike Root
Madras, OR

Haven't checked in the last few months, GP at Toledo Paper Mill, the paper mill at Wallula. Not sure who else is left.

Another Mill at Prince George just announced closing, but that's actually Pacific southwest from the Canadian point of view.

A paper mill in Longview WA gets chips by rail . Thats as of last year.  Longview Fiber ?
RB

I think Packing Corp. of America, near Wallula, WA on the UP still gets woodchips off MRL at Bonner, MT.
Dave in MT

Even back as recently as the 90's, one could see wood chips moving by rail all over the Pacific Northwest, every day; now days, it's quite rare to see them.  However, one still can see a fairly large number of trucks hauling wood chips, so the traffic is still out there, but not in the volume as before the collapse of the paper industry.

Almost daily out of Klamath Falls, Or northward on the UP.

Steve

wyeth Wrote:
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> Even back as recently as the 90's, one could see
> wood chips moving by rail all over the Pacific
> Northwest, every day; now days, it's quite rare to
> see them.  However, one still can see a fairly
> large number of trucks hauling wood chips, so the
> traffic is still out there, but not in the volume
> as before the collapse of the paper industry.

Know that there are some by truck due to type of tree they were from and needed for special applications up north of Klamath Falls was told years back. Chip board takes special ones was told.

Good point about OSB.

There is also a wood chip loading dock at Jordan Cove, just north of Coos Bay Oregon, that still receives chips by rails

Kirk

TCnR Wrote:
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> Haven't checked in the last few months, GP at
> Toledo Paper Mill, the paper mill at Wallula. Not
> sure who else is left.
>
> Another Mill at Prince George just announced
> closing, but that's actually Pacific southwest
> from the Canadian point of view.

The mill in PG just closed it's pulp line, the rest of the mill is still open per CBC.

Provincial crisis response team coming to Prince George as 300 pulp mill jobs set to be lost
Focus will be on helping workers transition to new careers or retirement

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canfor-job-losses-prince-george-1.6712165

Not many mills left, most of them are in PG.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/23 12:12 by TCnR.

TCnR Wrote:
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> Not many mills left, most of them are in PG.

Well between the Bark Beetle and the fires it's not surprising.

PHall Wrote:
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> TCnR Wrote:
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> > Not many mills left, most of them are in PG.
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> Well between the Bark Beetle and the fires it's
> not surprising.

Demand for their products has also changed dramatically over the years....

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