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originally Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway #9; then Siskiyou Lumber Co. of Macdoel, CA; then Humboldt Northern Railroad #5; purchased 1950; retired 1953 and placed on display in Scotia. [27] 19 Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 Tank locomotive: 1875 3739 purchased from Excelsior Redwood Company [27] 20 Marshutz & Cantrell 0-6-0 Tank ...
Scotia, formerly known as Forestville until 1888, is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 2 ] It is located on the Eel River along U.S. Route 101 , 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southeast of Fortuna and 244 miles (393 km) north of San Francisco . [ 5 ]
Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, containing Rockefeller Forest, the world's largest remaining contiguous old-growth forest of coast redwoods. It is located 30 miles (48 km) south of Eureka, California , near Weott in southern Humboldt County , within Northern California , named after the great German ...
The Trinidad extension reverted to Hammond Lumber Company control in 1933 and operated as logging branches of the Humboldt Northern Railway until 1948. [ 32 ] Pacific Lumber Company built 7 miles (11 km) of track in 1885 to connect their mill at Scotia with the Eel River and Eureka Railroad at Alton.
Little River Redwood Company also built the Humboldt Northern Railway to transfer company freight along the Pacific coast directly to Samoa, California. [5] A 1925 map of Crannell presents the various saw and planning mills, as well as dams and blockades on the Little River for logging transport.
Metropolitan is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. [1] It is located on McDairmid Prairie, on the north side of the Eel River floodplain three miles downstream of Scotia, [2] at an elevation of 72 feet (22 m). [1]
The sawmill was the first in Humboldt County to use a kiln for drying lumber. [5] The town was originally called North Fork, but was renamed Korbel in 1891 with the arrival of the post office. [2] The Korbel family sold their Mad River properties to the Northern Redwood Lumber Company in 1902. Rail passenger service ended in 1931.
The Avenue of the Giants is a scenic highway in northern California, United States, running through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is named for the coast redwoods that tower over the route. The road is a former alignment of U.S. Route 101 , and continues to be maintained as a state highway as State Route 254 ( SR 254 ).