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Book Synopsis West Virginia's Last Logging Railroad by : Philip V. Bagdon
Download or read book West Virginia's Last Logging Railroad written by Philip V. Bagdon and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meadow River Lumber was formed in 1906, and by the 20s, it was the "World's Largest Hardwood Manufacturer." This was the most long-lived lumber operation- and is remembered as an especially compelling combination of geared steam power and mechanized logging. The last of Meadow's steamers were retired in the mid-1960s, when two found new homes on the Cass Scenic Railroad. This book celebrates Meadow River Lumber's grand saga through a comprehensive text, 127 photos and track system map.
Book Synopsis West Virginia Logging Railroads by : William Warden
Download or read book West Virginia Logging Railroads written by William Warden and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. This book explains--and illustrates with both color and black & white photographs--the operations of logging railroads in the state from about 1940-1960. It includes a fascinating look at the rapid and haphazard laying of track, the challenge of getting up the mountains, and the hazards of derailing locomotives. Warden's book addresses the romance of back woods railroading. With puffy white clouds in an azure blue sky, a Shay type narrow gauge geared locomotive on the Ely-Thomas Lumber Company's logging railroad hauls a train of logs toward the mill in June 1954. This scene is typical of the interesting West Virginia logging railroad operations that are portrayed in this book. In another Ely-Thomas Lumber Company scene, Shay No. 5 prepares to cross Manns Run, near the end of this narrow gauge logging line's life in October. William E. Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. He prepared this book to illustrate and explain the methods and operations of logging railroads in West Virginia in the last twenty years that they ran, ending about 1960. West Virginia was one of the nation's largest producers of lumber beginning in the late 19th Century and extending into the middle third of the 20th Century. It had hundreds of logging railroads carrying huge quantities of timber to mills for processing into finished lumber, which was then shipped all over the United States, again by rail. The lumber industry in West Virginia began its decline when the great stands of virgin forest began to be depleted, and by the 1950s, there were only a half-dozen or so operations left still using logging railroads. There remain many logging and lumber milling operations in the state, but today the logs are taken from the forest by motor truck to modern, highly automated mills. The romance of back woods railroading holds a particular allure and nostalgia today, even as it did when these last few lines were still operating. We are lucky that Bill Warden and others were there to photograph the last decades. The book treats in detail five of the last and largest companies to use logging railroads and illustrates each line in some detail. Also included are chapters about logging in West Virginia and the locomotives that were favorites of the loggers--the famous geared Shay, Climax, and Heisler types. Today tourists can experience some of the logging railroad flavor by riding the Cass Scenic Railroad over the old line of the Mower Lumber Company out of Cass, W.Va.
Book Synopsis West Virginia Logging Railroads by : William E. Warden
Download or read book West Virginia Logging Railroads written by William E. Warden and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shay Logging Locomotive at Cass, West Virginia, 1901-1960 by : Philip V Bagdon
Download or read book Shay Logging Locomotive at Cass, West Virginia, 1901-1960 written by Philip V Bagdon and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the complete history of every geared steam locomotive used by lumber companies that operated the logging railroad out of Cass, WV. It is said to be one of the largest lumbering operations in West Virginia and the eastern part of the U.S. It included the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Co., West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., and the Mower Lumber Co. Details include data of all of the Shays and on one Climax used by these companies while lumbering the great hardwood forests of Pocahontas County, WV.
Book Synopsis Logging Railroads in the United States by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Logging Railroads in the United States written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Durbin, West Virginia, Ronceverte, West Virginia, Pacific Lumber Company, Portland and Western Railroad, Phillips and Rangeley Railroad, Caspar, South Fork and Eastern Railroad, California Western Railroad, Franklin and Megantic Railway, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Oregon and Eureka Railroad, Rockport, California, Fort Bragg and Southeastern Railroad, Usal Creek, Elk, Mendocino County, California, Babcock Lumber Company, McCloud Railway, Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway, Wild River, Laurel Fork Railway, Cass, West Virginia, Perry Lumber Company, Simpson Investment Company, West Side Lumber Company railway, Andersonia, California, Arcata and Mad River Railroad, East Waterford Lumber Company, Minarets and Western Railway, Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad, Metropolitan, California, Sawyer River Railroad, Juniata and Southern Railroad, Harbor Springs Railway, Susquehanna and Eagles Mere Railroad, Almanor Railroad, Crane Creek Lumber Company, Marion and Rye Valley Railway, White Top Railway, Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad, Bodie and Benton Railway and Commercial Company, Diamond and Caldor Railway, Bartlett and Albany Railroad, Sierra Railroad, Shaver Lake Railroad, Wheeler and Dusenbury Lumber Company, Bainbridge Northern Railway, Saco Valley Railroad, Brunswick and Pensacola Railroad. Excerpt: The Pacific Lumber Company, officially abbreviated PALCO, was one of California's major logging and sawmill operations, located 28 miles (45 km) south of Eureka and 244 miles (393 km) north of San Francisco. The once storied company and its historically positive relationship with conservationists begun in the 1920s was altered drastically after a hostile takeover began in 1985. As a result, the company was transformed into a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxxam, Inc by 1986 and during its two final decades....
Book Synopsis The Model Railroader's Guide to Logging Railroads by : Matt Coleman
Download or read book The Model Railroader's Guide to Logging Railroads written by Matt Coleman and published by Kalmbach Publishing, Co.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly illustrated book explains the business of logging railroads and provides examples of prototype operations. Photos of locomotives, equipment, and structures set the stage for modeling logging scenes and designing a logging layout.
Download or read book Railfan & Railroad written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis West Virginia And Pittsburgh Railroad by : Alan Clarke
Download or read book West Virginia And Pittsburgh Railroad written by Alan Clarke and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the construction of railroads in West Virginia, largely to access the untouched stands of timber in such counties as Upshur, Webster, Nicholas, and Randolph. Johnson Newlon Camden and Henry Gassaway Davis were the two men that were the driving forces behind these railroads. They were industrialists and politicians as well as friends and rivals. Camden built the Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad connecting Clarksburg and Weston in north central West Virginia. Completed in 1879, it was extended to Buckhannon in the fall of 1883. The West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad soon built extensions from Weston to the Gauley River and south from Buckhannon. Davis started construction of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway in 1880, which followed the North Branch of the Potomac River south into Tucker and Randolph Counties. Sawmills and towns sprang up all along the railroads as vast quantities of lumber were harvested from the forests of West Virginia. As the forests were denuded, mines opened, more towns were built, and coal replaced lumber as the principal freight. While sections of the W. Va. & Pittsburgh have been abandoned, the present day successor to the B. & O. still hauls coal along these rail lines to the voracious power plants of the eastern United States. Author and railroad scholar Alan Clarke has once again offered an in-depth look at the building of railroads in West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. Much of the technical and historical information in the book will be of special interest to railroad buffs. However, Clarke's grasp of the state at that time in history, as well as the book's vintage photographs, maps, and illustrations, cause this book to appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Mountain State.
Book Synopsis Logging Railroads of the Adirondacks by : William Gove
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.
Book Synopsis Transforming the Appalachian Countryside by : Ronald L. Lewis
Download or read book Transforming the Appalachian Countryside written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.
Download or read book West Virginia History written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Western Greenbrier Co-production Demonstration Project by :
Download or read book Western Greenbrier Co-production Demonstration Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis West Virginia Railroads Volume 5 by : Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads Volume 5 written by Thomas Dixon, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth volume in the WV Railroads series is a general history of the geared Shay, Climax, and Heisler type locomotives that were so prevalent during the West Virginia logging operations in the era from 1890s until the 1950s. Included are overview histories of each type of engine followed by chapters showing photos of the engines as they were being used in the woods in large and small logging operations.
Book Synopsis Logging Railroads of the West by : Kramer A. Adams
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.
Book Synopsis Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties by : Katy M. Tahja
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.
Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide The Shenandoah Valley and Mountains of the Virginias by : Jim Hargan
Download or read book Explorer's Guide The Shenandoah Valley and Mountains of the Virginias written by Jim Hargan and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, comprehensive guide to the southern Appalachians, from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia. With visitation levels that rival Orlando and New York City, the southern Appalachians draw a huge array of weekenders, adventurers, and long-term visitors. This book offers historical insight, outdoor adventure, and all the information most travelers need to plan and enjoy their journey. This guide also serves as an insider's handbook to the nine national parks, offering active travelers the best access points and trailheads for kayaking, biking, and hiking excursions. In addition, this comprehensive guide to the region includes opinionated listings of inns, B&Bs, hotels, and vacation cabins; hundreds of dining reviews, from barbecue to four-star cuisine; up-to-date maps; an alphabetical "What's Where" subject guide to aid in trip planning; and handy icons that point out family-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, places of special value, and lodgings that accept pets.
