The old Oregon Trail route has been in continual use since the first pioneers (and probably prior to that with Native Americans). Now there are big freight trains and long haul trucks that rumble through the woods.
The old town of Meacham has a few residents still.
All of them were at the local fire station for a meeting.
Yes, that vintage fire truck really is the main defense of the surrounding area to fires.
I lived in Meacham one summer in 1950. I was about 16.
A girls horse threw her and broke her arm. I would ride her horse for her to keep the horse tame while she recuperated.
At that time they used to ship Sheep out of Meacham on the rail road. Me and this girl teenager girl use to help them.
I wander if they still ship the sheep.
Also they use to have a rope that ran up the hill to pull you up the hill and you would ski down.
I worked on a tell-well crew that repaired the rails on the railroad. and on a crew clearing a rite of way for a telephone line.
Dave Jones
Hi David,
I didn’t see any evidence of sheep shipping but maybe they still do somewhere in the area. It looks like the trains never stop in Meacham and instead keep pulling the grade. The town is pretty sleepy these days.
-Douglas