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Logging By Rail British Columbia Story by Robert D Turner SIGNED
Logging By Rail by Robert D Turner SIGNED
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket (has protective covering)
326 pages
Copyright 1990
CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1 THE FIRST LOGGING LINES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Old "Curly" and the First Railroad Logging1
Early Successes, "Paraphernalia," "Betsy" and "Walking Dudley"7
Development and Expansion of the Logging Lines17
Characteristics of the Logging Lines29
Rail Logging Ends in the East Kootenays: The Timber Wasn't Limitless After All40
Expansion of the Logging Railroads on the Coast: 1920-193047
Chapter 2 STEAM IN THE WOODS
Logging Locomotives57
Shays, Climaxes and Heislers57
Rod Engines68
Train Handling, Safety and Locomotive Maintenance78
Speeders and Gas Locomotives90
Chapter 3 ROLLING STOCK, CAMPS, TRESTLES AND SKIDDERS
Disconnects, Flatcars and Skeleton Cars107
Bull Cars, Snowplows and other Special Equipment 113
Bridges and Trestles119
Log Dumps132
Camp Cars and Mobile Camps138
Donkey Engines, Loaders and Skidders149
Chapter 4 DEPRESSION, HEYDAY AND DECLINE
The Depression Years165
Wartime Expansion174
The Post War Years: Merger and Abandonment193
Chapter 5 STEAM'S FINALE
The Last Steam Show: MacMillan & Bloedel239
The Last Geared Locomotives259
Chapter 6 THE DIESEL YEARS
Steam or Diesel? Testing the Options267
Comox Logging Turns to Diesel272
Canadian Forest Products - Canfor286
EPILOGUE307
APPENDIX Preserved British Columbia Logging Locomotives311
REFERENCE NOTES 313
BIBLIOGRAPHY318
INDEX 321
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
This 348-page book contains over 500 outstanding, select photographs, including 20 pages in full colour, specially prepared maps and plans together with detailed text, bibliography and index.
Logging by Rail is the dramatic and fascinating story of the logging railroad era in British Columbia when the whistles of the steam locomotives echoed through the mountains and forests of the West.
It is the story both of the men who worked on the railroads and of the machines they ran, maintained, depended upon and sometimes cursed or loved. It is a story of ingenuity, invention, determination and hard work. The setting is the vast forests of British Columbia and the remote, isolated logging railroads which were once a vital part of the forest industry.
From small beginnings in the 1880s logging lines expanded rapidly through the early 1900s. By the 1920s, the height of the steam era in the woods, there were hundreds of miles of timber-hauling railroads. The Depression and World War II brought more changes to the logging railroads and by the 1950s, trucking was taking over log-hauling in the woods as the timber accessible to railroads dwindled. As the steam era ended only two major logging railroads were modernized with diesels. Railroad logging was a powerful technology that was used to change forever the landscape and forests in large areas of British Columbia.
First-hand accounts from men who worked for a lifetime on the logging trains are interwoven with the intriguing history of the railroads and their equipment. Here is an interesting and detailed picture of the Shay, Climax and Heisler geared locomotives, the Baldwin and Porter rod engines, the donkey engines and skidders, the speeders and rolling stock that gave logging railroads their unique character. Hundreds of classic photographs capture these machines and the lines they ran on, with their fantastic trestles and their twisting, climbing grades.
Logging by Rail is at once a carefully documented history and a sensitive portrait of railroad logging in British Columbia.
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