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The 12, a Baldwin 2-6-2, will go to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, after #9 enters service on the Georgetown Loop RR. 10 Lima Three Truck Shay 1928 3315 Now running on the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad. Reportedly the largest narrow-gauge Shay locomotive ever built. 12 Lima Three Truck Shay 1927 3302 ex-Swayne Lumber Company railway #6.
A second schooner "Elvenia" was built in 1872. When all timber close to the sawmill had been cut, Jackson build a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) railroad north to Jug Handle Creek in 1874. This "railroad" had ties spaced at 6-foot (2-meter) intervals, and the "rails" were 6-by-8-inch (15 by 20 cm) wooden beams.
The railroad was originally built from the Eagles Mere Railroad near Eagles Mere 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the lumber mill at Sonesville on Kettle Creek. Because the Eagles Mere Railroad was a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge , the Susquehanna and Eagles Mere Railroad was built to a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) gauge as well.
The Sugar Pine Lumber Company became one of the most notable boom-and-bust stories of the 1920s logging industry. After an $8 million investment in 1923, it set records for California's annual lumber cut but quickly exhausted its timber holdings. [1] [3]: 56 By 1933, the company was bankrupt, overwhelmed by debt and high operating costs ...
The burgeoning railroad industry accounted for a fourth of the national lumber demand and required the product to build rail cars and stations, fashion ties, and power trains. [12] Even as the coal began to replace wood as an energy source, the coal mining industry itself needed lumber to support its mining structures and create its own rail beds.
Pacific Lumber (or PL, as locals have known it for generations) began during the heat of the US Civil War in 1863 when A. W. McPherson and Henry Wetherbee purchased 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of timberland on California's Eel River at the rate of $1.25 per acre. Over the ensuing 20 years they added more partners and began significant logging by 1882 ...
The Yosemite Lumber Company was an early 20th century Sugar Pine and White Pine logging operation in the Sierra Nevada. [1] The company built the steepest logging incline ever, a 3,100 feet (940 m) route that tied the high-country timber tracts in Yosemite National Park to the low-lying Yosemite Valley Railroad running alongside the Merced River .
Sold to W.D. Hofius & Co. (dealer) in 1902. Resold in 1903 to the White Bros.- or White Star Lumber Co., who reduced it to an 0-4-(4-0) [2-truck] type and converted it to standard gauge (WSL #1). Probably scrapped about 1916. [5] [6] The known evidence suggests that this locomotive was not sold to the Maytown Lumber Co. [7] USA 10 Baldwin ...