this cool 1902 photo that hits several of my favorite topics, but is shockingly the only railroad forest fighting, even the only rail road fire fighting fire truck, I've ever found

In January 1900, Frederick Weyerhaeuser and 15 partners took a step that signaled a new era in the history of the lumber industry.

In the largest private land transaction in American history to that time, they purchased 900,000 acres of Washington state timberland from the Northern Pacific Railway.

In 1902 a few fires broke out, then a high wind fanned them into one massive blaze. An area that had been a prime stand of quality fir, cedar and hemlock was now a graveyard of trees. Hundreds of loggers were required to carry out the salvage operation that took a decade to complete.

The Weyerhaeuser company was instrumental in starting the forest fire protection movement to save and protect their huge investment in lumber.

By 1908, the Washington Fire Protection Association had 75 forest fire patrolmen working in Northwest forests and had extinguished 350 fires.

https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/company/history/#3