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Workers milling logs in the steam-powered sawmill, during the Great Oregon Steam-Up of 2006. The signature event at Powerland Heritage Park is the Great Oregon Steam-Up, an event held each year during mid-summer (end of July and beginning of August) when many of the exhibits, normally displayed in a non-operational state, are fired up and shown running.
River Mill Hydroelectric Project, also known as River Mill Dam and Station M, is a hydroelectric dam and powerhouse in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is just north of Estacada, Oregon, on the Clackamas River at river mile 23.5 (km 37.8). It received its name from being near a sawmill that was located along the river. [3]
Steam powered sawmills could be far more mechanized. Scrap lumber from the mill provided a ready fuel source for firing the boiler. Efficiency was increased, but the capital cost of a new mill increased dramatically as well. [10] In addition, the use of steam or gasoline-powered traction engines also allowed the entire sawmill to be mobile. [12 ...
Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries.Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills.
Powered by 13 natural springs located beside the mill, it is thought to be one of the largest of its kind in the world. - Mill Springs; Wisenberger Mill, near Midway; Maine. Bog Mill, Buxton; Dexter Grist Mill, Dexter, built in 1854; Maine Forest & Logging Museum also known as Leonard's Mills, has Maine's only operational saw mill.
The log pond of the new lumber company leached various toxins, and nearby residents complained for years that they could taste the log pond in their drinking water. [11] In 1925 the company purchased The Grande Ronde Lumber Co. and its short-line railroad. [12] Railroad access enabled the movement of logs from Mt. Emily to the sawmill in La Grande.
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Early advertisement baiting tourists in 1907 A retired caboose in O'Brien, Oregon. Last crew of McCloud #18, August 7th, 2005. The MCR was originally built as the McCloud River Railroad chartered on January 22, 1897, as a forest railway bringing logs to the company sawmill on the Southern Pacific Railroad at a place called Upton a few miles north of Mount Shasta.