Crane Creek Lumber Company

In the 1920s the company moved to Lawson Creek and built the railroad spur in 1928.

The spur was built as the result of Crane Creek's successful bid to the National Forest Service, in 1926, for 194 million board feet of timber in the Modoc National Forest's Fandango Logging Unit.

The company built a planing mill and box factory at Willow Creek near the NCO.

The company also built a standard gauge logging railroad which operated from a junction with the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway (NCO) at Willow Creek, California (link is incorrect Willow Creek), running southeast for 16.5 miles into the Modoc National Forest.

The railroad used an oil fueled Shay locomotive that hauled two flatcars of lumber.