Logging Railroads Of Humboldt And Mendocino Counties

Author : Katy M. Tahja
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738596213
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties written by Katy M. Tahja and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locomotive steam whistles echo no more in the forests of the north California coast. A century ago, Humboldt and Mendocino Counties had more than 40 railroads bringing logs out of the forest to mills at the water's edge. Only one single railroad ever connected to the outside world, and it too is gone. One railroad survives as the Skunk Train in Mendocino County, and it carries tourists today instead of lumber. Redwood and tan oak bark were the two products moved by rail, and very little else was hauled other than lumberjacks and an occasional picnic excursion for loggers' families. Economic depressions and the advent of trucking saw railroads vanish like a puff of steam from the landscape.

Author : Kramer A. Adams
Publisher : Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of the West written by Kramer A. Adams and published by Seattle : Superior Publishing Company. This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers logging railroad history in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevaha, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico from the 1860's through the 1950's.

Author : Lynwood Carranco
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870043734
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging the Redwoods written by Lynwood Carranco and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The giant redwood trees are one of California’s best known attractions. Thousands of tourists visit the Northern California groves each year. The story of the California redwood lumber industry also tells the stories of the men, the trains, and the land. This book is dedicated to the pioneer lumbermen who succeeded in launching careers as mill men by overcoming the tremendous obstacle of moving the giant redwoods from the woods to the mill, by inventing equipment strong enough to handle the gigantic logs, and by finding suitable markets for their lumber throughout the Pacific area; and to Augustus William Ericson and the other early photographers who preserved the early history of logging in pictures.

Author : Susan J. P. O'Hara
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439644314
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northwestern Pacific Railroad written by Susan J. P. O'Hara and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2014 marks the centennial of the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), celebrated by driving a golden spike at Cain Rock in October 1914. This achievement was the culmination of a massive, six-year engineering effort to connect rail lines ending at Willits with the early lumber company railroads of the Humboldt Bay region. When it was completed, the NWP linked Eureka with San Francisco by rail, a milestone in the history of Humboldt and Northern Mendocino Counties. This book examines the impact of the NWP on Northwestern California. Although no longer operational, the railroad today symbolizes the ongoing struggle to connect this isolated region with the wider world.

Author : Frank Alexander King
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816640843
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minnesota Logging Railroads written by Frank Alexander King and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the heyday of lumberjacks and sawmills, railroads such as the Duluth and Northern Minnesota and the Alger-Smith enabled logging companies to break away from the traditional mode of transportation (floating logs downriver) and its shortfalls (logjams and winter freezes). Frank King traces this rich history from its beginnings in 1886 to the railroads' disappearance around 1937 when the last of the giant sawmills closed down. King profiles every logging railroad in Minnesota and examines all aspects of their operations, including locomotives such as the geared Shays and Heislers, McGiffert log loaders, Russel log cars, dump trestles, hot ponds, logging camp life, railroad finances, and the impact on communities as timber supplies ran out and lumbering and sawmill operations shut down, causing thousands to lose their jobs. Heavily illustrated throughout, Minnesota Logging Railroads contains maps, photographs, postcards, engineering drawings, and railroad memorabilia such as timetables, passes, fare receipts, and freight tariffs. The appendixes comprehensively list the state's logging railroads, locomotive rosters, and railroad and lumber company names.

Author : Kramer Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875645094
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of the West written by Kramer Adams and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murry Hammond
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439655871
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Texas Logging Railroads written by Murry Hammond and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s, the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana. That first eight-mile logging line heralded a boom era of lumbering and railroading that would last well into the 20th century. Before the era was over, thousands of miles of logging railroads would be built, and hundreds of communities would spring up along their routes. As times changed, the mills closed and nearly all of the early rail lines were abandoned, but most of the communities they helped establish survived those changes and thrive into the present day.

Author : Pamela A. Conners
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sugar Pine Railway written by Pamela A. Conners and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Gove
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815607946
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks written by William Gove and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of 1890-1950 marked the romantic era of steam power as the rails reached deep into the old growth of the Adirondack woods to harvest the timber crop. In this volume, not only does William Gove provide an in-depth history of railroad activity in the Adirondacks he also describes the logging methods used, the role of railroads in the logging industry, and the influence of the railroads on the condition of the Adirondack forest today. In addition, he addresses the political and economic forces determining the location and viability of logging railroads, villages, and the forest industry.

Author : Richard Charles Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging Railroads of Rusk County, Wisconsin written by Richard Charles Brown and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: