The Kerry Railroad was a 40 plus mile logging common carrier railroad that stretched from the Columbia River slough at it's log dump just east of Westport, Oregon...south into the Oregon Coast Range.  Passing through a rare and expensive tunnel, the line reached the Birkenfeld, Oregon area and established the railroad town of Neverstill.  From there it continued south and west into the Coast Range until eventually reaching it's last and largest railroad camp, Buster Camp. 

 

Originally owned by Albert Kerry, construction began in 1913 and most of the original common carrier right of way of constructed...some 30 miles, by 1916.  Although known as the "Kerry Line" named after it's owner, it's official common carrier name was the Columbia and Nehalem River Railroad.  Multiple logging operations would establish camps and build railroad grades into the woods to log various tracts of timber that were along the main railroad. 

 

Kerry would sell out in 1926 to the K-P Timber Company who would take over the common carrier line and Kerry's Timber cutting operations.  By 1930 as the stock market crashed and the Depression set in, the K-P Timber Company was the last operation left on the line.  Although Buster Camp was the furthest camp away from the log dump, by 1933, K-P Timber would suffer a fire near Buster Camp that ended their operations there. 

 

In 1934, the logging operations would be moved north to Horseshoe Camp.  By 1938 the company ended railroad logging operations and the remainder of the railroad and log dump were closed and abandoned.