Vintage Logging – Railroads

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about railroads, and its integration into the movement of logs and lumber throughout history.

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One log to a load on the narrow gauge railroad at Lyonsville, Sierra Lumber Company operation. The rounded off end of the log, called “sniped” end, was done to facilitate chute trailing.

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Sawmill on the waterfront.

Railroad tracks in front of employees housing.

1882 Hall Brothers ship yard.

Housing along waterfront, trestle railway along the shoreline close to the ships for loading and unloading.

Sawmill showing sailing ships docked at the wharf. A forest of masts. Railway lines leading right to them.

Rights Information: Feb 28 2019 Special permission granted by the owning institution, California State University, Chico, CA, US, to WoodchuckCanuck.com, for use of this image for historical logging special collection review. Source: http://www.cdlib.org/

1892 Railroad flatcars carrying logs.

Sawmill on the waterfront, railway lines on trestle bridges meander through the property.

1895 Fir log.

1892 Railroad flatcars loaded with logs.