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Pino Grande Logging Railroads of Michigan California Lumber Co Polkinghorn 1984
Pino Grande Logging Railroads of the Michigan California Lumber Co By R S Polkinghorn
Revised and enlarged edition
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1984
176 Pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface 5
Chapter 1Dry Run, 1889-1899 9
Chapter 2On the Auction Block Again, 1900-1907 23
Chapter 3White Pine and Red Ink, 1911-1917 29
Chapter 4Sugar Pine Bonanza, 1918-1951 35
Chapter 5Steam in the Forest 41
Chapter 6By Cable Over the River 53
Chapter 7Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe Railroad 67
Pino Grande Album, Part I, 1890-191874
Pino Grande Album, Part II, 1918-1949 101
Pino Grande Album, Part III, The Remains 139
Appendix A Logging Camps 142
Appendix B Locomotives and Equipment143
Index 175
Fascinating is the word for logging operations in the wooded mountains, especially so when steam trains are involved, the good smell of burning wood, the sound of the steam whistles and the thunder of falling trees.
Close to California's Mother Lode country, the Michigan-California Lumber Co. operated for many years with an interesting combination of narrow gauge and standard gauge equipment plus an ingenious cable arrangement to bridge a deep gorge. The machinery involved included steam donkeys, track autos, steam tractors and even a snowplow.
In this book an album section, made up of choice historical photographs, gives a most detailed record of changing equipment which shows the wear and tear it sustained in this rugged service. Here you will see all the involvements of feeding logs continuously to the mill where lumber was cut and dried to be used in the building program of a fast-growing region. It was a matter of pride that they milled first-class sugar pine lumber, and sold the lesser grade materials to a contiguous operation which produced boxes and crates.
The company was fortunate in that its many devotees and especially its management enjoyed keeping a fine pictorial record. Consequently the author had excellent material from which to choose to illustrate his precisely researched history.
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