Vintage logging – Accidents

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are mostly about accidents, fires and train wrecks, that made a hard job that much harder to recover from and continue doing.

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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 crash at Stirling City, 1909. Engineer and brakesman killed. Smoke Rising.

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 of the wreckage on the McCloud Logging Road. Original annotation: “Wreck on McCloud Logging Road; One of the and a logging ?_ [The 5 was patched up and later sold to the Weed Lumber CO.]”

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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Ruins of Sierra Lumber Co’s mill. Chico, Butte 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: cdlib.org

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Photograph shows men using Donkey Engines to get the wrecked train back on the track.
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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View of a logging railroad accident in Stirling City. Train No. 4.

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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Crosses marked on photo show lumber piles that burned.

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Photograph shows a wrecked locomotive on the Meter gauge railroad near Ramsey Bar. Photo taken between 1909-1915. Butte Co, CA.

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 wreckage after burning of the Champion Mill at Lyonsville, 1907. diamond Match operation.
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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Not an accident, I just wanted to insert an interesting photo to round out a group of 10 photos for this week.

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