Sumpter Valley Logging Railroads

Author: Alfred Mullett
Publisher: Imaginary Lines, Inc.
ISBN: 9780738575421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
In 1889, David Eccles chartered the Oregon Lumber Company, an organization that produced many mills and railways and whose influence was felt from Salt Lake City to Northern California and Idaho. Through family connections, Eccles was also involved with many other logging enterprises, and he influenced the growth of the Inter-Mountain region as well as the Pacific Northwest. Sumpter Valley Logging Railroads is a pictorial history of the Oregon operations, focusing on the operations along the Sumpter Valley Railway. It explores the rails, mills, and people, as well as the logging practices of a bygone era.

Sumpter Valley Railway

Author: Alfred Mullett
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738571256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
In July 1890, David Eccles and Charles Nibley chartered the Sumpter Valley Railway and changed the social and physical landscape of Eastern Oregon forever. The Sumpter Valley Railway and its parent company, the Oregon Lumber Company, became an economic engine that shaped the lives of generations of Eastern Oregonians. The rails stretched from Baker to Prairie City, Sumpter to Susanville, and laced ribbons of steel through the Powder River Valley and Elkhorns. This photographic history is a view into the life and times of a varied, interesting, and living railroad that was instrumental in the shaping of Eastern Oregon.

The Model Railroader's Guide to Logging Railroads

Author: Matt Coleman
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 0890247021
Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
This highly illustrated book explains the business of logging railroads and provides examples of prototype operations. Photos of locomotives, equipment, and structures set the stage for modeling logging scenes and designing a logging layout.

Logging Railroads of Alabama

Author: Thomas Lawson (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description

Rails, Sagebrush, and Pine

Author: Mallory Hope Ferrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description

American Lumberman

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 2130

Book Description

Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of Oregon to the Governor

Author: Public Service Commission of Oregon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description

Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: Oregon, Washington

Author: Donald B. Robertson
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870043666
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This 352-page, triple indexed reference book covers nearly 500 names in the two north Pacific coast states. All known common carrier steam powered operations of ten or more miles are included, plus numerous logging companies, electric traction and diesel operations. The account covers their histories from inception until sale or abandonment - or until 1993 if still active. Railroad titles are full and exact.

The Timberman

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 804

Book Description

Oregon

Author: William G. Robbins
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295747269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Oregon’s landscape boasts brilliant waterfalls, towering volcanoes, productive river valleys, and far-reaching high deserts. People have lived in the region for at least twelve thousand years, during which they established communities; named places; harvested fish, timber, and agricultural products; and made laws and choices that both protected and threatened the land and its inhabitants. William G. Robbins traces the state’s history of commodification and conservation, despair and hope, progress and tradition. This revised and updated edition features a new introduction and epilogue with discussion of climate change, racial disparity, immigration, and discrimination. Revealing Oregon’s rich social, economic, cultural, and ecological complexities, Robbins upholds the historian’s commitment to critical inquiry, approaching the state’s past with both open-mindedness and a healthy dose of skepticism about the claims of Oregon’s boosters.