Historic Steam Logging Tractor BW
by Aurelia Schanzenbacher
Title
Historic Steam Logging Tractor BW
Artist
Aurelia Schanzenbacher
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Black and White photo of historic steam logging tractor taken at Collier Logging Museum and State Park located East of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Collier is home to the largest collection of historic logging equipment in Oregon. The original artifacts were donated by the Collier brothers, who wanted to safeguard the tools that had been vital to the central and eastern Oregon logging and milling industries. In addition, original cabins, stores, and offices were moved to the park to create a Pioneer Village.
The museum, most of which is in the open, displays logging equipment dating from the era of animal-powered logging through the early 1980s, and it holds the largest collection of McGiffert and McVay log loaders in existence. There are also steam tractors, a steam donkey, a steam locomotive, and a Corliss steam engine that ran Long-Bell Lumber Company’s sawmill for forty-seven years in Weed, California. Other early equipment includes several sets of high wheels, chain-driven Mack trucks, and pull-type road graders. Mid-twentieth century logging is represented by a collection of power saws, gasoline and diesel-powered tractors, a Weyerhaeuser truck reload, a log-raft tugboat, and two sawmills, one operable.
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March 23rd, 2022
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