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Similar to northern red oak, the wood is suitable for paneling, furniture, carpentry and pallets. It has the widest distribution in California among the western oaks. Uses: timber; landscaping, palatable food, sap resins. [159] —
Wheel Size Date Shop number Weight Boiler Pressure Tractive Effort in Pounds Notes 1 [23]: 43 Lima: 2T Shay: 28 1891 350 60,000 lb (27,000 kg) 160 14,450 "Sequoia" purchased new by Kings River Lumber Company. Converted to standard gauge in 1914. Sold to E.M. Prescott, Fresno, California 1929. Scrapped. 2 [23]: 43 Lima: 2T Shay: 29 1911 2411
Depending on the size and style of the plan, the materials needed to construct a typical house, including perhaps 10,000–30,000 pieces of lumber and other building material, [4] would be shipped by rail, filling one or two railroad boxcars, [6] [7] which would be loaded at the company's mill and sent to the customer's home town, where they would be parked on a siding or in a freight yard for ...
Pacific Lumber Company built flatcars from wood and maintained a fleet of locomotives for moving logs from the woods into the mill and for switching cars for loading or unloading at the sawmill. Diesels replaced steam locomotives in 1955. [25] Log trains of wooden flat cars ran to the Scotia mill until 1976 from a log deck in Carlotta ...
West Coast shipyards continued to build sail-rigged lumber schooners until 1905 and wooden steam schooners until 1923. In 1907 observers noted the increase in size of schooners. The first three-masted schooner built on the Coast was launched in 1875. It was also the first lumber schooner to exceed 300 tons.
California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico. Oak woodland is widespread at lower elevations in coastal California ; in interior valleys of the Coast Ranges , Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges ...
"Building the redwood region: The redwood lumber industry and the landscape of Northern California, 1850–1929" (PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2000. 3001767). Cox, Thomas R. Mills and markets: A history of the Pacific Coast lumber industry to 1900 (U of Washington Press, 2016).
Engineered wood products, manufactured by binding the strands, particles, fibers, or veneers of wood, together with adhesives, to form composite materials, offer more flexibility and greater structural strength than typical wood building materials. [12] Pre-cut studs save a framer much time, because they are pre-cut by the manufacturer for use ...