Author: Katy M. Tahja
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738596213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
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.
Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties
Author: Katy M. Tahja
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738596213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738596213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
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.
Logging Railroads of the West
Author: Kramer A. Adams
Publisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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.
Humboldt Logging Railroads
Author: Stanley T. Borden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Logging the Redwoods
Author: Lynwood Carranco
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870043734
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870043734
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
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.
Pino Grande
Author: Robert Stephen Polkinghorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870460692
Category : El Dorado County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870460692
Category : El Dorado County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Pino Grande; Logging Railroads of the Michigan-California Lumber Company
Author: Robert Stephen Polkinghorn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Logging Railroads of the West
Author: Kramer Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685833483
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685833483
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Whistles Blow No More
Author: Hank Johnston
Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Pictorial account of the glory days of flume in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from the beginnings of the California Lumber Co. to its end in the 1942. Historical photos throughout capture the time and impact of this railway. Hard cover
Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Pictorial account of the glory days of flume in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from the beginnings of the California Lumber Co. to its end in the 1942. Historical photos throughout capture the time and impact of this railway. Hard cover
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Author: Susan J. P. O'Hara
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439644314
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439644314
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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.
Mills of Humboldt County, 1910-1945
Author: Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467127760
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Sequoia sempervirens, California coastal redwood, was Humboldt County's economic mainstay from the 1850s onwards. By the early 20th century, harvesting "red gold" was the major industry along California's North Coast, with Humboldt at the forefront of the industry. The first half of the 20th century saw technological changes in logging and milling. New uses for redwood included cigar boxes, "presto-logs," and core logs for plywood. The industry began reforestation practices, growing their own seedlings as early as 1907. World War I and the Great Depression impacted the industry, as did activism to preserve the redwoods. In the 1930s, the largest stand of old-growth redwoods was preserved, and the turmoil of the 1935 strike resulted in several strikers being killed in Eureka. This book explores Humboldt's early-20th-century lumber industry and day-to-day realities of life in the mills and woods in an era underrepresented in published logging history.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467127760
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Sequoia sempervirens, California coastal redwood, was Humboldt County's economic mainstay from the 1850s onwards. By the early 20th century, harvesting "red gold" was the major industry along California's North Coast, with Humboldt at the forefront of the industry. The first half of the 20th century saw technological changes in logging and milling. New uses for redwood included cigar boxes, "presto-logs," and core logs for plywood. The industry began reforestation practices, growing their own seedlings as early as 1907. World War I and the Great Depression impacted the industry, as did activism to preserve the redwoods. In the 1930s, the largest stand of old-growth redwoods was preserved, and the turmoil of the 1935 strike resulted in several strikers being killed in Eureka. This book explores Humboldt's early-20th-century lumber industry and day-to-day realities of life in the mills and woods in an era underrepresented in published logging history.