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 the railroads and how they were used in the logging industry.

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Asian railroad construction crew and track laying machine, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, probably in Grays Harbor Count.

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Early 1900s, Helen GA. In its day it was the largest sawmill wast of the Mississippi River, capable of processing 125000 BF a day. They processed most of the virgin timber off the mountains in northeast Georgia and western NC.

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Photograph shows the Cal Pine Box and Lumber mill, Plumas County, Calif. Note: one building says Plumas Box and Lumber Company.

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/

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Railroad, Mason County, WA, US.

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Photograph shows the Reno Lumber mill. Located in Loyalton, Sierra County, California.
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/

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1900 Four woodsmen posing with logs on Great Northern Railway car.

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1900s Woodsmen posing with Great Northern Railway engine and flatbed cars with logs.

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Photograph shows a transfer taking place from a log chute to rail in Big Chico Creek Canyon – Sierra Lumber Company operations. House at the right held boiler and machinery for trailing logs in the chute. Locomotives were freighted up the Humboldt Road from Chico and skidded down into the canyon. Sierra Lumber Company, Butte County, CA, US.

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: cdlib.org

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Photograph shows a logging train and logs being loaded on it.

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: cdlib.org

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