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The Madera Sugar Pine Company was a United States lumber company that operated in the Sierra Nevada region of California during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company distinguished itself through the use of innovative technologies, including the southern Sierra's first log flume and logging railroad, along with the early adoption of the Steam Donkey engine.
From there, the Minarets and Western flat cars were pulled up a 10.82 mi (17.41 km) standard gauge railroad to Central Camp, the base of logging operations in the woods. [1] The Sugar Pine Railroad railway was built at a consistent 4.5 percent grade that wound through a series of sixty-two 20-degree curves.
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.
Horses pulled the empty cars uphill for another load of lumber. [1] El Dorado Lumber Company soon built a 3,000-foot (910 m) steam-operated aerial tramway to move lumber 1,200 feet (370 m) above the river from the downhill end of the railroad at North Cable on the north side of the river to South Cable on the south side of the river.
A Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Co. log train climbing a steep grade near Sugar Pine, California, circa 1915. Due to the onset of the Great Depression and a lack of trees, the operation closed in 1931. But the graded right-of-way through the forest remained, enabling the Stauffer family to reconstruct a portion of the line in 1961.
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Sugar Pine is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. [1] It is located 5 miles (8 km) north of Yosemite Forks , [ 2 ] at an elevation of 4236 feet (1291 m). [ 1 ] It is located 1 mile east of California State Route 41 , between Oakhurst, California and the South Entrance of Yosemite National Park .
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