Columbia and Cowlitz Railway

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Columbia and Cowlitz Railway
Reporting marks	CLC
Locale	Washington
Dates of operation	1925–present
Track gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters	Longview, Washington

The Columbia and Cowlitz Railway (AAR reporting marks CLC), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company, and is headquartered in Longview, Washington; the railroad 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 cars including a mix of boxcars, centerbeam lumber cars, and flat cars. A fleet of three EMD GP20 diesel locomotives, 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 devices (FREDs).

All CLC freight cars are painted a navy blue color with white lettering, although some have worn a mineral red color, 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. However, in times past, some of the locomotives also wore Weyerhaeuser's color scheme of yellow and black. The lone caboose is painted safety yellow with black lettering, Weyerhaeuser colors, and seems to be one of Weyerhaeuser's old cabooses, most likely either #1 or #2. 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.

Weyerhaeuser Co.

Corporate Directors: Richard Haskayne | Robert Herbold | Martha Rivers Ingram | John Kieckhefer | Arnold Langbo | Don Mazankowski | Nicole Piasecki | Steven Rogel | Richard Sinkfield | D. Michael Steuert | James Sullivan | Charles Williamson

Annual Revenue: $22.7 billion USD (▲14% FY 2004) | Employees: 53,646 | Stock Symbol: NYSE: WY | Website: www.weyerhaeuser.com

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