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Zuni Mountain Railroads Cibola National Forest New Mexico Soft Cover
Zuni Mountain Railroads Cibola National Forest New Mexico Soft Cover
Zuni Mountain Railroads Cibola National Forest New Mexico
Vernon J. Glover and Joseph P. Hereford Jr.
Soft Cover stapled
88 Pages
Copyright 1st Printing September, 1986
2nd Printing March, 1990
Contents
FIGURES
TABLES iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv
HISTORIC OVERVIEW
Introduction 1
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad 1
THE LOGGING COMPANIES
Mitchell Brothers 4
American Lumber Company 7
McKinley Land and Lumber Company 35
George E. Breece Lumber Company 40
Prestridge and Seligman 46
The McGaffey Company 50
Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company 62
CONCLUSION 63
APPENDICES
A. Locomotive Rosters 65
B. Photographs 70
C. Apache National Forest Railroad Extension 81
REFERENCES CITED 84
FIGURES
1. The Santo Fe Railway Station at Guam, New Mexico 3
2. Map of the route of the Zuni Mountain Railway as laid out by S.M. Rowe 5
3. Plan of the American Lumber Company plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico 8
4. Sawmill of the American Lumber Company at Albuquerque 9
5. Map of American Lumber Company rail connections to Albuquerque 11
6. Locomotive No 4 in the snow at Kettner in 1908 12
7. One of the American Lumber Company's steam loaders at work 13
8. Santa Fe Railway locomotive Number 826 14
9. An overall view of the main logging camp at Kettner 15
10. Zuni Mountain Railway locomotive Number 6 leaving Kettner for Thoreau 16
11. Climax locomotive Number 8 of the Zuni Mountain Railway 19
12. Zuni Mountain Railway Shay locomotive Number 10 20
13. Zuni Mountain Railway 2-8-0 Number 12 21
14. Zuni Mountain Railway log cars at the Santa Fe Railway depot 22
15. Loading standard 16-foot logs on Santa Fe steel log cars 23
16. Typical Zuni Mountain logging spur 23
17. Zuni Mountain Railway main line in Cottonwood Canyon 24
18. Skidding logs to the railroad with big wheels 24
19. Log landing along a future spur track, American Lumber Company 25
20. Zuni Mountain Railway locomotive Number 4 on a track-laying job 26
21. A low-wheeled truck called a 'bummer' 27
22. A two-horse team with big wheels ready to drop its load of logs 28
23. Shay locomotive Number 3 bringing in o train from the woods 29
24. The logging camp of Sawyer on the American Lumber Company 29
25. The main port of the logging camp of Sawyer 31
26. The 'round-house at Sawyer, circa 1908 - 1913 31
27. The ancient locomotive No. 4. crossing a framed timber trestle 32
28. Old 'mainline locomotive Number 6 of the Zuni Mountain Railway 33
29. Log train leaving Sawyer, circa 1908 - 1913 34
30. H.K. Porter Company catalog photograph of a new locomotive 38
31. Climax locomotive Number 8 on its side 39
32. Diagrams of cribwork timber trestles 41
33. Curvey cribwork trestle on Pine Canyon railroad of Breece Lumber Co. 42
34. Three span cribwork trestle 43
35. D.Lang's proposed logging railroad for the Apache Notional Forest 45
36. George E. Breece Lumber Company sawmill in Albuquerque, 1932 46
37. The original McGaffey sawmill 53
38. An early sawmill on the Clark M. Carr sale 53
39. Loading logs with a Barnhart loader 54
40. McGaffey Contracting Company log train heading for the mill 55
41. McGaffey Shay locomotive switching cars for a trip to Perea 56
42. The sawmill fire of McGoffey in March 1917 57
43. McGaffey sawmill as rebuilt following the March 1917 fire 58
44. Part of McGaffey town as seen from the sawmill, 1918 58
45. McGaffey lumber yard and sawmill 59
46. McGaffey Compony Shay Number 1 was the woods locomotive 60
47. The 'works' of a Shay locomotive 60
48. The log dump at McGaffey 60
49. A string of McGaffey Company log cars with Model C looders 61
50. McGaffey locomotive Number 2 of El Paso enroute to Mexico, 1935 62
51. Zuni Mountain Railway locomotive Number 6 outside Kettner 64
52. A borrowed Santa Fe locomotive, Number 2303, off the rails 66
53. Santa Fe Railway locomotive Number 482 of Guam 70
54. A fixed boom loader working near Sawyer 71
55. Loading a car near Sawyer pauses for the photographer 72
56. View of the main logging camp at Kettner 72
57. Climax gear-drive locomotive Number 8, Zuni Mountain Railway 73
58. Big wheels at a railroad landing 73
59. Laying track on freshly graded roadbed 74
60. Stocked logs burning near Sawyer, circa 1908 74
61. Three 'car tonks" working on an arch-bar freight car truck 75
62. Winter view of the Sawyer roundhouse, circa 1906 - 1913 76
63. An old Santa Fe Railway freight locomotive on the Zuni Mountain Railway 76
64. The logging comp of Sawyer 77
65. Zuni Mountain Railway track gong comprised mostly of Navajo Indians 77
66. Scaling logs for the American Lumber Company 78
67. A discarded locomotive brake shoe found along Pine Canyon railroad 78
68. A tent logging comp 73
69. Tent comp in winter 78
70. A long forgotten festive occasion of McGoffey 79
71. Excursion train leaving Kettner Comp, July 4th 1908 79
72. Fourth of July celebration at McGaffey, 1921 80
TABLES
1. Locomotives of the Zuni Mountain Railway (Narrow Gouge), 1892 66
2. Locomotives of the Zuni Mountain Railway (Standard Gouge), 1903-1917 67
3. Locomotives of McKinley Land and Lumber and the Breece Lumber Co. 68
4. Locomotives of Prestridge S Seligman, 1933-1940 69
5. Locomotives of the McGaffey Company, 1912-1929 69
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