Small Trestle on a Logging Skid Road - c. 1900
What do you do if you need to run a logging skid road across a ravine? You build a small trestle, like this one.
What do you do if you need to run a logging skid road across a ravine? You build a small trestle, like this one.
It's clear that the cross beams have been hollowed in the center to help keep the logs on track. A cable for the steam donkey is strung along the depression. There is also a one-board wide boardwalk for people to assist the process, and flimsy looking sticks holding a single wire. At first I thought his might have been a type of handrail, but now I wonder if it was a simple telegraph line to communicate from one end of the run to the other.
If you're familiar with that technology, please let me know.
-- This photo is restored and printed by Old Oregon.
Photographer | John F. Ford |
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Location | Washington State |
Subject | Bridges and Trestles, Logging |
Decade | 1900s |
Print Maker | Old Oregon |
Original Type | Larger Print |
Size of Original | 5.7 x 7.7 inches |
Photographer's Number | Number 433 |