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 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.

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.

Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Northwestern Pacific Railroad

Author: Susan J. P. O'Hara

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-11-18

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439644314

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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.