This has been sold off and is now Yakima Forest Industries if I recall correctly. I don't think Boise owns any lumber mills anymore. The mainline out to Moxee City goes right through the log yard. This is a large industry that cannot be fully modelled. They even received an occasional load of logs via train as I have a picture of one of the modern 65' skeleton-type cars parked on the property.

Poor picture of such a small portion of this large industry, however, this is part of what I want to model. Note the water tank in the background which belongs to them.

Thank you Microscale for making decals for this business. I was really surprised to drive by and see this business as I surmised that the decal was fictional. They don't receive rail traffic but on my layout they will. The concrete building in the back is of typical construction found around Yakima.

I'm not sure if they receive anything by rail as I didn't see tracks nearby. Would like to use it as an excuse to run high pressure tank cars. Pikestuff buildings and some tanks will fit the bill here.

Bad shot of this business crammed up against an overpass. Good for a few plastic pellet cars as their neighbor to the north receives several of them.

Truth be told, this is actually in Sunnyside about 25 or so miles east of Yakima. They don't receive rail traffic either but it will be a customer on the WPO. Standard Pikestuff buildings will do nicely.

This two-track woodchip loader sits neglected along with the track. This is the end of the line in real life, however the WPO continues over the mountains to the west. It has always been named this and is an older, medium-sized operation. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only interface they have ever had to the railroad. Nice car pullers (2) that can be modeled.

Another decal set Microscale does. Once again, I was surprised to find this out.

You gotta love the name of this business and it is named after the founder I believe. This is the more modern building that replaced a large, round-roof structure before it. They load 3 centerbeams a week with cedar fencing which is carried by the big box stores. Tacoma Eastern serves this industry on the prototype. By the way, the old Morton Milwaukee Road depot is right next door. The parking lot for Tubafor is in the wye. Notice the white chalk lines telling employees where NOT to park!

I assume this is where Milwaukee used to sort and shuffle the log cars from Mineral and stored the boxcars loaded with finished lumber. Tubafor is behind, Mineral is ahead with Hampton Lumber of the right. An old oil depot is overgrown with trees on the left and a log scaling platform that serves Hampton. I plan on modeling both the log scaling platform and the oil depot.

I have no information on this place at all. It is a block or two away from the sewage/water treatment plant in town and has three tracks. Two of which can be seen in the photo and one that goes under the flat rooves over the loading doors on the right.

I love this scene and fully intend on capturing it on my model railroad. The track goes out to a log dump area I think and also goes by Reliable Steel listed below. Further looking at Google Earth shows that there used to be a sawmill just north of Reliable Steel.

Another not-so great photo showing this business. Fairly quiet and looks as though it has fallen on lean times. It might be good for a couple loaded gons and the occasional coil car.

A good destination for some tank cars and easily modeled too. What can't be seen in this photo is the little warehouse on the left side of the tracks in the background that had two loading doors. It was quite small and was typical of the cheap plastic kits you used to be able to get that simply looked unprototypically small. The spur for the warehouse is behind the white pickup.

Poor photo of this industry as it is somewhat hard to get a good shot of this building. It used to be Continental Grain and used any kind of locomotive they could get their hands on; old loggers even! BNSF "earthworm" trains terminate here to load ships with grain for foreign customers like China. It doesn't take long to load a grain ship and send it on its way; about a day or so. Some unusual spark arrestors used to be on their small fleet of locos, but they are gone. Loco roster consists of three SW1200's and a chop-nose (i.e. low-hood) GP9.

Here is a very small portion of the Tacoma waterfront. I studied and took photos of several buildings in the area that could easily be modeled. Some portions of the Tacoma waterfront will find their way into Olympia.