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High Lead logging in Western Oregon Cable grue Larix 3T, installed on agricultural tractor. Cable logging, also referred to as skyline logging, is a logging method primarily used on the West Coast of North America with yarder, loaders, and grapple yarders, but also in Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, France, Italy).
The tunnel was driven by the Portland and Southwestern Railroad, whose chief business was logging. Unusually for a logging railroad, the Portland and Southwestern built tunnels. In order to reach the far side of the Nehalem divide in the Northern Oregon Coast Range, the railroad undertook a 1,712-foot (522 m) tunnel. Some work was started in ...
Wireline truck rigged up to a drilling rig in Canada. In the oil and gas industry, the term wireline usually refers to the use of multi-conductor, single conductor or slickline cable, or "wireline", as a conveyance for the acquisition of subsurface petrophysical and geophysical data and the delivery of well construction services such as pipe recovery, perforating, plug setting and well ...
Crew of gyppo logging outfit, Tillamook County, Oregon, October 1941. The term "gyppo" is specific to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. [1] The word was introduced by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to disparage [2] strikebreakers and other loggers who thwarted their organizing efforts. [1]
The Valley and Siletz Railroad (VS) is a 40.6-mile (65.3 km) defunct railroad located in Polk and Benton counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. The railroad began construction in 1912. It was 12 miles (19 km) long by 1915, 34 miles (55 km) long by 1917, and was extended to 40.6 miles (65.3 km) and completed later that year.
Restoring memories of Maxville offers a window into Oregon's complicated past with Jim Crow segregation. When the town was founded by a logging company in 1924, Black people were not permitted to ...
Oregon Eastern Railway: California and Oregon Coast Railroad: 1913 1954 N/A Carlton and Coast Railroad: CR&C 1910 1940 N/A Central Railroad of Oregon: 1909 1927 Union Railroad of Oregon: Central Railway of Oregon: 1905 1909 Central Railroad of Oregon: Central Oregon Railroad: GN/ NP: 1908 1909 Oregon Trunk Railway: Central Pacific Railway: SP ...
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