Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties
Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties

Author: Katy M. Tahja

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738596213

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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 the Redwoods
Logging the Redwoods

Author: Lynwood Carranco

Publisher: Caxton Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780870043734

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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.

Logging Railroads of the West
Logging Railroads of the West

Author: Kramer A. Adams

Publisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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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.

Mills of Humboldt County, 1910-1945
Mills of Humboldt County, 1910-1945

Author: Fortuna Depot Museum Susan J.P. O’Hara and Alex Service

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467127760

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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.

Poor's Manual of Railroads
Poor's Manual of Railroads

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 2866

ISBN-13:

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"With an appendix containing a full analysis of the debts of the United States, the several states, municipalities etc. Also statements of street railway and traction companies, industrial corporations, etc." (statement omitted on later vols.).