Larch Mountain Logging Train Tracks
1915-1922
Black and white photo of a team of about seven men laying railroad tracks for a logging train on Larch Mountain. A hand car or dolly is in the foreground, flanked by two piles of railroad ties; the men are in the background. Mounds of torn roots and debris are visible on either side of the tracks; intact forest in the distance.
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs0324
- Description
- Black and white photo of a team of about seven men laying railroad tracks for a logging train on Larch Mountain. A hand car or dolly is in the foreground, flanked by two piles of railroad ties; the men are in the background. Mounds of torn roots and debris are visible on either side of the tracks; intact forest in the distance.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Date
- 1915-1922
- Subject
- Lumber industry
- Railroads
- Railroad ties
- Railroad tracks
- Volcanoes
- Mountains
- Provenance
- The Larch Mountain logging train line was built in around 1916 to replace the plank road that had previously extended up the south side of the mountain. A note on the back of this photo identifies the date as 1922, which could indicate that an extension to the existing railroad was built then. However, the note may be mistaken, as it appears to have been written many years after the photo was taken.
- Type
- StillImage
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Location
- Larch Mountain, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
