Sawlogs on Steel Rails: A story of the 45 years of railway operations in the logging camps of the Port Alberni area
by McKnight, George A
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- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0969944810
- ISBN 13
- 9780969944812
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About This Item
Port Alberni, BC: Forest Industry Seniors' History Committee, 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; The first major sawmill in British Columbia was the Port Alberni Anderson mill of 1860/1864, which was closed because it ran out of logs. Manager Gilbert Sproat advised the owners that to go get logs to the mill they would need to build a railway. The owners refused so the mills was closed. It was to be almost 50 years until the first logging railway was built in 1912. The last train of logs was delivered to MacMillan Bloedel's Franklin River Camp A in 1957. In the intervening period more than 30 locomotives operated on hundreds of miles of railway grade in the area. Thousands of men were involved in a large number of logging camps, big and small. This 45 year period of railway logging is the subject of our story.
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- Title
- Sawlogs on Steel Rails: A story of the 45 years of railway operations in the logging camps of the Port Alberni area
- Author
- McKnight, George A
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0969944810
- ISBN 13
- 9780969944812
- Publisher
- Forest Industry Seniors' History Committee
- Place of Publication
- Port Alberni, BC
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- TRANSPORTATION RAIL RAILWAY LOGGING TRAINS FRANKLIN RIVER RAILWAY PORT ALBERNI BRITISH COLUMBA CANADA CANADIAN
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