A logging train loaded with huge logs crossing a trestle in the Cascade Mountains, Ore. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A logging train loaded with huge logs crossing a trestle in the Cascade Mountains, Ore.
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A heavily loaded logging train crosses a timber trestle in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, its cars stacked with logs far larger than the rolling stock would suggest. Around 1906, logging railroads were pushing deep into these forests to reach stands of Douglas fir and other large conifers, and trestles let trains span ravines and creeks that would otherwise have halted a line. The picture was issued as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs on card that a viewer saw as one three-dimensional scene through a stereoscope. The card is credited to C.L. Wasson, and such views were commonly sold to a public eager to see the West.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. No. 21855. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Ore.--C- Mtns; Ore.--Misc.--[1906]; Trestles; Lumbering--Ore. Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,259 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132513 |
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