Vintage logging – Railroads
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at various logging scenes that benefited from railroads.
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Canadian Western Lumber Co. Ltd., Fraser Mills; trainload of logs unloading in boom.
Railroad leaving landing with load of logs.
1905 British Columbia ‘Toothpicks’, 18 x 18 inches x 70 ft timbers on CPR flat cars.
Photograph shows unidentified logging mill with logs on flat car in foreground.
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
Some of Southern Pine Lumber Company’s employees pose along the tracks of the Houston East & West Texas Railway in front of the company store at Diboll on 4 November 1907. The company store was the geographic and social center of the community. The general store was on the ground floor, a size of 36×66 feet. An adjacent room of the same size was used for storage. The second floor, 66×72 feet, was used for furniture and men’s furnishing goods. The drug store was 30×50 feet in size. Manager W. P. Rutland and twelve others employed the store.
1903 Men laying railroad cross ties in the woods.
Photograph shows a front-end shot of the Sierra Lumber Company logging train loaded with 12 sugar pine logs. Lyonsville, Tehama County, 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
Portrait of a wooden logging railroad and train pulling loads of logs. Tehama County, 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
