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The Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse is the last remaining structure of a logging camp in Schroeder, Minnesota, United States, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The Schroeder Lumber Company from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, established a camp there in 1895, on the Cross River. The loggers had plenty of white pine, balsam fir, and spruce trees to cut
Bunkhouse. A bunkhouse is a barracks-like building that historically was used to house working cowboys on ranches, or loggers in a logging camp [1] in North America.As most cowboys were young single men, the standard bunkhouse was a large open room with narrow beds or cots for each individual and little privacy.
In 1980 she was re-named YAG 314 (Caribou), unofficially known as CFAV Caribou, and moved to CFB Esquimalt where she was used for seamanship and navigation training until 2007. Caribou was offered for sale by the Canadian Government in 2011 as part of the YAG 300 Replacement Project, which saw the YAG boats replaced by new Orca-class patrol ...
Designed by logging engineers, Camp 6 included a replica of an operating railroad connecting the working sites with the bunk houses and bunk cars of the camp. [1] The museum was a National Registered Historic Place, and featured several historic buildings and over 500 tons railroad and logging equipment. Many pieces of equipment were powered by ...
[12] [32] In 1915, George Hume purchased a third Shay engine and more log cars and yarding engines, expanding the company's logging equipment to include 70 railroad cars, three locomotives, 12 steam donkeys, one McGiffert loader, and one railroad crane. The company hired 1,500 men for the 1916 season, preparing for one of its heaviest cuts on ...
The Sugar Pine Lumber Company was an early 20th century logging operation and railroad in the Sierra Nevada. Unable to secure water rights to build a log flume, the company operated the “crookedest railroad ever built." [2] They later developed the Minarets-type locomotive, the largest and most powerful saddle tank locomotive ever made.
Solid, low pressure and high pressure tires have been used. As many as nine axles may be used to provide low ground pressure and good traction. [6] Timber is commonly grown in hilly country unsuitable for farming and so the ability of a log truck to climb a gradient is significant. The steepness depends on the quality of the surface - mud and ...
Simpson was a prominent forest products company in Northern California for much of the 20th century, after first acquiring California timberland in 1945, eventually managing more than 450,000 acres of forest in California, in what was then known as the Redwood Division and is now mostly part of spinoff Green Diamond Resource Company.