Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills
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Rigging Spar Tree

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High Climbers

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Crew
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 Lidgerwood No.1

 

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Mill; Bellingham, WA

#6  2-truck Heisler sn-1288 (this was the only 44-ton engine ever built by Heisler.   Built 1913 for A.C. Manning Logging Co., Lake Whatcom, WA,  to B.D.L.M., Lake Whatcom, WA, to B.D.L.M., Sekiu, WA.

#8, Baldwin, 2-6-6-2T (cn-58064), built for B.D.L.M. in 1924 

#9, 2-6-6-2T, built for B.D.L.M. in 1924; (she was identical to #8) she initially operated at Alger, then was shipped to their Olympic Peninsula operation.

#11 Climax, cn-1632, built 1923 (to Rayonier ownership in 1945)

 

NOTES:

 

Bloedel Donovan's box factory at Bellingham was destroyed by fire on Sept. 30, 1924. It was replaced with a new and more modern plant, which began operations in the spring of 1925.

 

(8) Willamette lumber carriers noted operating May 1930  [t_05/1930]

 

Rayonier purchased B-DLM's  Clallam holdings in 1945.