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Log train loaded with logs for the mill, ca.1900 (CHS-2018)

Log train loaded with logs for the mill, ca.1900 (CHS-2018)

Log train loaded with logs for the mill, ca.1900 Photograph of a log train loaded with logs for the mill, in a redwood forest, ca.1900. About 10 lumberjacks are standing or sitting on logs or the train. Other ... More

05405-Arizona-1904-A Logging Train in Arizona-Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag

05405-Arizona-1904-A Logging Train in Arizona-Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag

Deutsch: Arizona; A Logging Train in Arizona This postcard is from publisher Brück & Sohn in Meißen (de:Brück & Sohn).This postcard has a unique number 05405 and is available in a higher resolution at the ... More

Excursion Logging Train (NBY 7522)

Excursion Logging Train (NBY 7522)

Excursion Logging Train Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mattole River train

Mattole River train

Logging train crossing the Mattole River mouth, circa 1900

Loading device moving railroad cars full of timber

Loading device moving railroad cars full of timber

Loading device moving railroad cars full of timber at camp near Effie, Minnesota

Loading logs on a railroad car

Loading logs on a railroad car

Loading logs on a railroad car. Gibbs City, Michigan

Loading logs onto railroad car

Loading logs onto railroad car

Loading logs onto railroad car near Effie, Minnesota

Log train02

Log train02

The main log train going through the lumber camp en route to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, where the sawmill is located. Forest County, Wisconsin

Log train 04

Log train 04

A trainload of timber recently cut and ready to be shipped to the sawmill. Little effort is made to clean up after cutting timber. Note slashings and brush in foreground. Wisconsin

Long Bell Lumber Co 04

Long Bell Lumber Co 04

Long Bell Lumber Company, Cowlitz County. Washing spar tree used in lumbering operations

Lumber camp locomotive01

Lumber camp locomotive01

[w:[Lumberjack Steam Train]] lumber camp locomotive. Forest County, Wisconsin. Note special smokestack to catch sparks. The locomotive is part of the w:Camp Five Museum.

Lumber camp locomotive02

Lumber camp locomotive02

The log train passes through the lumber camp en route to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, where the sawmill of the lumbercamp is located. Forest County, Wisconsin

Partially-loaded car of lumber

Partially-loaded car of lumber

Partially-loaded car of lumber near Effie, Minnesota.

"Betsy," a Shay Locomotive of the Madera Sugar Pine Company, near Soquel Mill

"Betsy," a Shay Locomotive of the Madera Sugar Pine Company, near Soqu...

Engineer William O'Donnell with the Shay locomotive "Betsy" and a short log train made up of the original disconnected log bunks brought from the Soquel Mill around 1901.

"Betsy," a Shay Locomotive of the Madera Sugar Pine Company in 1901

"Betsy," a Shay Locomotive of the Madera Sugar Pine Company in 1901

William O'Donnell, a Madera Sugar Pine engineer from 1900 to 1906, "Shorty" Herr, fireman, and two unidentified men pose with "Betsy," and a short log train in this 1901 photo.

Betsy The Madera Flume and Trading Company Locomotive

Betsy The Madera Flume and Trading Company Locomotive

"Betsy," the first locomotive operated by The Madera Flume and Trading Company in the Sierra Nevada in 1889.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Man Train Timber Creek

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Man Train Timber Creek

The Sugar Pine Lumber Company's "man train" crosses Timber Creek near Camp 2.

Sequoia-One-Spot-Locomotive-on-Trestle

Sequoia-One-Spot-Locomotive-on-Trestle

Sanger Lumber Company's No. 1, the Sequoia, pauses for the photographer on one of the 23 trestles on the railroad that ran some six miles between Millwood and Hoist Ridge.

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Pinedale Sawmill Machine Shop Workers

Pinedale Sawmill Machine Shop Workers

Machine shop workers at the Sugar Pine Lumber Company's Pinedale Sawmill

Maury Geography 022B lumbering

Maury Geography 022B lumbering

Lumbering in Georgia, from Maury's New Elements of Geography for Primary and Intermediate Classes.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle 1

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle 1

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle between Bass Lake and Central Camp

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Footings

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Footings

Footing foundations prepared for a Sugar Pine Lumber Company trestle bridge above Bass Lake, California in 1922.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Construction

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Construction

Sugar Pine Lumber Company trestle approaches completion above Bass Lake in 1922.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle 3

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle 3

One of seven trestles built by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company between Bass Lake and Central Camp, California.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle 2

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle 2

One of seven trestles between Bass Lake and Central Camp on the Sugar Pine Lumber Company logging railway.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Number 14 Side View

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Number 14 Side View

The Sugar Pine Lumber Company's Trestle Number 14 stood 110 feet high and was the tallest ever built along the 150 miles of forest railway.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Pinedale Unloading Dock

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Pinedale Unloading Dock

Two flat cars unload at once into the log pond at the Sugar Pine Lumber Company unloading dock in Pinedale, California.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Railroad Tracks Across Bass Lake Dam

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Railroad Tracks Across Bass Lake Dam

Sugar Pine Lumber Company's mainline railroad tracks across Bass Lake Dam near Wishon.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Pinedale Mill Log Wash

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Pinedale Mill Log Wash

The log wash at the Sugar Pine Lumber Company sawmill in Pinedale, California.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Willamette Slope Hoist

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Willamette Slope Hoist

The Willamette electric slope hoist pulled log cars up the Brown's Creek incline near Central Camp, California.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Transformer Powering Logging Equipment

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Transformer Powering Logging Equipment

A transformer powers state-of-the-art electric logging equipment for the Sugar Pine Lumber Company in the early 1920s near Bass Lake, California.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Willamette Loader on Railway

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Willamette Loader on Railway

One of four Willamette Loaders owned by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company working near Central Camp, California.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Track Laying

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Track Laying

Track laying on the Sugar Pine Lumber Company logging railway using the Russell tracklaying system in 1924.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Number 14

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle Number 14

The Sugar Pine Lumber Company built 50 trestles along the 150 miles of logging railroad. Trestle Number 14 was the highest at 110 feet high.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Spar Tree Loading Crew

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Spar Tree Loading Crew

A car unit loading crew works with a spar tree to load logging cars near Central Camp, California.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Trestle

One of seven of the Sugar Pine Lumber Company's trestles on the logging railway between Bass Lake and Central Camp.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Willamette Swing-Boom Loader

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Willamette Swing-Boom Loader

One of four Willamette Swing-Boom Loaders used by the Sugar Pine Lumber Company in logging operations near Central Camp.

Minarets and Western Finegold Trestle

Minarets and Western Finegold Trestle

The Finegold Trestle near O'Neals was one of several crossings of Finegold Creek between Friant and Bass Lake.

Minarets and Western Locomotive 102

Minarets and Western Locomotive 102

Minarets and Western Locomotive 102 pulls a log car train across the Friant Bridge on the way to the Pinedale Mill.

Minarets and Western Fire Fighter Crew

Minarets and Western Fire Fighter Crew

Mill workers depart the Pinedale Mill to fight a forest fire near Central Camp on September 7, 1924.

Minarets and Western Trestle Bridge

Minarets and Western Trestle Bridge

The Minarets and Western trestle bridge over the San Joaquin River near Friant, California had a span of 1,100 feet and was 630 feet high.

Minarets and Western Locomotive Number 102

Minarets and Western Locomotive Number 102

The Minarets and Western Locomotive Number 102 haling a load of log cars on the way to the Pinedale Mill.

Minarets and Western Locomotives

Minarets and Western Locomotives

The MInarets and Western Locomotives 102 and 103 stand in front of 101 in Pinedale.

Minarets and Western Trainload of Transformers

Minarets and Western Trainload of Transformers

A trainload of transformers arrives in Pinedale for use in state-of-the-art electric logging machinery.

Yosemite Lumber Company Snow Workers

Yosemite Lumber Company Snow Workers

Yosemite Lumber Company workers dig out an early Sierra Nevada snow.

Camp Five Farmstead

Camp Five Farmstead

In the 1890s Camp Five was a logging camp of the Connor Lumber Company near Laona in northern Wisconsin. Later it became a company farm which produced food for Connor's logging camps. Today it is a living his... More

Long-Trestle-above-Camp-Six

Long-Trestle-above-Camp-Six

Long trestle above Camp Six.

Albion Lumber Company's Baldwin 2-4-2T No.1 'Albion' hauling a long string of 'bob cars' (disconnect trucks)

Albion Lumber Company's Baldwin 2-4-2T No.1 'Albion' hauling a long st...

Albion Lumber Company's Baldwin 2-4-2T No.1 'Albion' hauling a long string of 'bob cars' (disconnect trucks)

Mc Farlanb Bros Camp

Mc Farlanb Bros Camp

McFarlanb Bros Camp Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Early-Shay - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Early-Shay - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

One of Ephraim Shay's locomotives on the Hemlock Central Railroad (Harbor Springs Railway), Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA.

Redw DNaSR - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Redw DNaSR - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Steam train by Del Norte and Southern Railroad on a trestle bridge hauling redwood timber near Crescent City, California, around 1900.

Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad 48

Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad 48

Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad 49

Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad 49

Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad Public domain image of Swedish railroads works, train yard, workshop, tracks, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Log train with wood burning stack

Log train with wood burning stack

C.C. & P. Railway. Log train with wood burning stack. 1910. Photo by Huron H. Smith. Location: Georgia, U.S.A., North America Original material: 5x7 inch glass negative Digital Identifier: CSB31340 Learn more... More

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Locomotive Number 1

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Locomotive Number 1

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Locomotive Number 1 crosses the main-line railroad trestle above Bass Lake on June 18, 1923.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Locomotive 1 on Trestle

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Locomotive 1 on Trestle

The Sugar Pine Lumber Company Locomotive 1 going uphill from Bass Lake on June 18, 1923 during the construction of the railway to Central Camp.

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Machine Shop Interior

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Machine Shop Interior

Mechanics at the Sugar Pine Lumber Company handled repairs to the logging equipment in the Machine Shop in Central Camp, California.

C.C. & P. Railway log train

C.C. & P. Railway log train

C.C. & P. Railway log train with wood burning stack. 1910. Photo by Huron H. Smith. Location: Georgia, U.S.A., North America Original material: 5x7 inch glass negative Digital Identifier: CSB31339 Learn more ... More

Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1897) (14574777928)

Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power a...

Identifier: locomotiveengine10hill (find matches) Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock Year: 1892 (1890s) Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 185... More

The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico (1904) (14594103530)

The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industrie...

Identifier: landofsunshineha01newm (find matches) Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Im... More

Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date (1906) (14760919102)

Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive ...

Identifier: wonderscuriositi00kenn (find matches) Title: Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date Year: 1906 (190... More

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Camp 14 incline

Sugar Pine Lumber Company Camp 14 incline

The Camp 14 incline was one of two inclines constructed by Sugar Pine Lumber Company to reach far away lumber tracts.The Camp 14 incline was a 33 percent grade that ran over 4,500 feet.

Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway

Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway

Locomotive on the railroad line of the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway or one of its successors. According to Thomas T. Taber III's book "Sunset Along Susquehanna Waters", the James B. Weed and Com... More