Timber Times, Inc. Photo Gallery


TimberTimes Photo Gallery This selection of timber industry photos is provided through the generosity of various historians and collectors. The photos were scanned and converted into JPEG images then sized to 640x480 pixels. View each jpeg photo by clicking on the small thumbnail image. Stimson Timber Co. Wheeler Lumber Company Pickering Lumber Corporation Cascade Lumber Company Tidewater Timber Company Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
	Climax No. 3 (c/n 1599) of Stimson Timber Co., operating out of McCleary, Washington. This 80-ton engine was purchased new in 1920 by the Webb Logging Company, of Duckabush, Washington. A large tree-rigged car-mounted unit stands in the background. It looks as though it hasn't yet been rigged up, as no lines are visible hanging from the spar tree. Bucked logs are visible on the hillside; it was common practice at this time to fell and buck the trees before bringing the yarding and loading machines in.
	C. Kinsey photo courtesy of Martin E. Hansen.

	Wheeler Lumber Company, of Glady, West Virginia, bought these twin 45-ton Climax locomotives around 1910. Here they're seen working a switchback with log buggies and a Barnhart loader in tow. Glady is in Randolph County, in Central West Virginia.
	Photo courtesy of John Swiger.

	1956 is a busy year for the Pickering Lumber Corporation. This view shows Pickering Heisler No. 5 leaving the Sierra R.R. mainline at Ralph, California, with a flatcar load of ties and a steam crane in tow. Also following are 17 log flats, a lone caboose, and Heisler No. 10 cut in as a helper. The destination is Soap Creek Pass reload. This reload is in its first full year of operation. Earlier in the year, Pickering took delivery of its first EMD diesel locomotives. Soon the rapid exhaust beat of the Heislers and later that of the Shays will be silenced forever.
	Photo by Douglas S. Richter, courtesy of Martin E. Hansen.

	Cascade Lumber Company, operating out of Casland, Washington. Here a slide back loader is seen loading Northern Pacific log flats, using end hooks. This was Cascade's (and many pine loggers') preferred method of loading for many years. In the background, spotting the cars, is one of their four Shays.
	Photo courtesy of John T. Labbe.

	Loading disconnected trucks with a hayrack boom at Tidewater Timber Company. It took a good crew to load logs as fast as they were yarded, but with the size of the timber available in those days, it didn't take as many pieces to make a load as it does today! Notice how the boom has been raised about four feet from its original position on the spar tree. Tidewater Timber Company operated in the Coast Range of Western Oregon from 1923 to 1941.
	C. Kinsey photo, Maude Ballard collection, courtesy of Merv Johnson.

	Weyerhaeuser Timber Company operated three camps out of its Vail, Washington Headquarters Camp, starting in early 1928. This was one of the world's largest logging operations, averaging 1,000,000 feet per day. Their railroad was enormous by logging standards-98 miles in all, including 26 miles of main line extending from Vail to the tidewater log dump at South Bay, near Olympia. From there the logs were towed by barge to the giant Weyerhaeuser mill at Everett. This fine view shows one of the camps along the Vail line. The Shay is their No. 3, turned out by Lima in 1913, for the Cherry Valley Lumber Company, a Weyerhaeuser subsidiary at Stillwater, Washington. The tank car above the main line is also lettered for Cherry Valley.
	C. Kinsey photo, courtesy of Martin E. Hansen.
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