It took considerable time and thousands of man-hours for the outside world’s railroads to reach Humboldt County in 1914. And even more money to keep that transportation system up and running. But, the ...
In the beginning, there was wood. From there came industry and the logging railroad. John Berg of Wisconsin Rapids has written a book about both in “The Lake Shore and Eastern — a Logging Railroad in ...
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The logging railroad reached its heyday in the late 19th century and early 20th century when large lumbering operations clear-cut forests to produce lumber, paper and other wood products for a fast ...
In 1901, the tranquility of the forests blanketing the San Bernardino Mountains was pierced by the unfamiliar sound of a steam whistle and the churning of a steam locomotive. The first and only ...
Editor's note: This is the first of three columns devoted to Ronald C. Sullivan's "If Rails Could Talk." It’s not unlikely that down through the years as many or more books have been published about ...
NORTH ADAMS — Four years ago the tiny Hoot, Toot & Whistle Railroad crawled one last time through the hills of North Berkshire to Readsboro, Vt., and stopped. "You can't run on sentiment," declared ...
Coos County at one time or another had nearly 30 logging railroads, many following along routes cut by rivers and creeks. The longest of these was the Smith-Powers line, connecting Myrtle Point to ...
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