Learn about the history of often unknown or forgotten logging railroads, which once dominated the transportation of timber in the early 20th century.

A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felled logs to sawmills or railway stations.

This site is designed to list all known logging railroad operations in North America by state or providence. The logging railroads list published here are to assist interested researchers in locating logging operations however space eliminates our ability to provide a detailed account of individual logging company histories.

Pages in category "Logging railroads in the United States" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

steam logging railroads is provided to aid those responsible for subsequent studies and surveys of the cultural resources within the Lincoln National Forest (see frontispiece for area map). A large part of the construction of railroad lines into the area predates the formation of …

2019年1月31日 · No, Vermont’s logging railroads were neither grand nor flamboyant, but they got the job done. A colorful part of the Long Trail’s history, their stories are worth knowing, and their moldering roadbeds still call to adventurous hikers and bushwhackers.

2024年9月10日 · Thanks to Kramer Adams' book, "Logging Railroads Of The West," published in 1961, the history of this region's operations have been largely preserved. Without his exhaustive work many such systems would be lost to history.

Prior to the construction of specialized logging railroads, the logging operations in Minnesota relied on river transport, log drives, and boom operations to move logs to the sawmills. The logging camps were located along major rivers, the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix, as well as along streams that fed into these rivers.

Logging railroads dominated Michigan’s pine-logging and hardwood-logging eras. Pulpwood loading yards and gondola cars scattered throughout northern Michigan are the only evidence of current logging transport by rail.

Railroad (later known as the Glencoe and Pinconning), which began operat- ing in 1873 in Bay County, was the state's first steam locomotive logging railroad.4 The geographer Randall Rohe, in his technological history of the use of tramways and pole railroads in the Great Lakes, has traced the his- tory of logging railroads back to 1855.