Powerland Heritage Park Project
WRPS has been working closely with the various Powerland Heritage Park Boards to become the 15th museum on the property, located near Brooks OR.
We will be on the grounds of the Pacific Northwest Logging Museum, with the ultimate shared goal of running short log trains and demonstrating log loading and unloading techniques. Our mission is to build a 50 by 70 foot restoration and storage building, and a quarter mile loop of 3 foot gauge track with various sidings.
We have been working with the Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration group out in Sumpter, OR. since our conception. Seasonal heavy snow and lack of storage space for SVRR has become an issue, and this project will help alleviate it.
Adding a building in Powerland will give us the opportunity to restore both groups railroad equipment year-round, and hopefully draw more three-foot gauge visitors and volunteers for both organizations. We will move our West Side Lumber Co. and other equipment to Powerland as the project proceeds.
Our original 2016 proposed track right-of-way. The ultimate planned right-of-way as of 2018. As we survey for the track in 2020, reality and space will probably require changes. Proposed front of the three-stall restoration and storage building as detailed by Parker Buildings in Hubbard, OR. We have been doing interactive and informational displays for both WRPS and SVRR inside the Logging museum for the last three years. Two small sheds were completed in 2019 to house the Porter compressed air engine and the Meyers diesel critter. The ditch is for electrical conduit for the future shop building. Early January 2020,and the electrical project is winding down. The new dual meter base is for the Logging museum and us. Hope to see this project completed in February.
