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McCloud River Lumber Company:
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By the early 1920s the lumber comapny transitioned to year round logging, resulting in the following images.
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Locomotive #9 in four feet of snow at Spur 128. Jeff Moore collection.
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A log train following a snowplow train, probably somewhere in the White Horse country. T.E. Glover collection.
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A little bit of snow on a log flat. T.E. Glover collection.
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The joys of logging in winter. The group of men clustered around the flats in the distance suggest a derailment. T.E. Glover collection.
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The #24 with a short log train in the mountains of the White Horse tract. T.E. Glover collection.
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This sequence of three photos shows a lumber company crew plowing out Pondosa after a snowstorm, then two shots of cleaning up after the plow derailed. Jeff Moore collection.
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The #25 with a bucker plow during a snowstorm in White Horse. Jeff Moore collection.
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Loggers also plowed snow in camp or in the woods to keep logging operations going. In this photo a group of loggers are getting a wooden wedge plow ready to plow snow, it will be pulled
behind the Cat "Sixty". Roland Edwards collection, courtesy Marilyn Rountree.
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Another "Sixty" pulling a steel wedge plow in White Horse in 1935. Roland Edwards collection, courtesy Marilyn Rountree.
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