An author and historian who has documented the logging history of the early 1900s — focused on tracing the network of logging ...

Banks-Vernonia State Trail replaced an old logging railroad with 21 nearly flat miles of pavement, thirteen bridges, and an ...

The logging railroad reached its heyday in the late 19th century and early 20th century when large lumbering operations clear-cut forests to produce lumber, paper and other wood products for a fast ...

It took considerable time and thousands of man-hours for the outside world’s railroads to reach Humboldt County in 1914. And even more money to keep that transportation system up and running. But, the ...

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Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. This story is also an excerpt from the Open ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three columns devoted to Ronald C. Sullivan's "If Rails Could Talk." It’s not unlikely that down through the years as many or more books have been published about ...

In 1901, the tranquility of the forests blanketing the San Bernardino Mountains was pierced by the unfamiliar sound of a steam whistle and the churning of a steam locomotive. The first and only ...

In the beginning, there was wood. From there came industry and the logging railroad. John Berg of Wisconsin Rapids has written a book about both in “The Lake Shore and Eastern — a Logging Railroad in ...

Coos County at one time or another had nearly 30 logging railroads, many following along routes cut by rivers and creeks. The longest of these was the Smith-Powers line, connecting Myrtle Point to ...