Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Visit the West Side Lumber Company in 1951 and the Pickering Lumber Company in 1953. This is rare color film with knowledgeable and insightful narration. Here are rare scenes of tree harvesting, sawmills and the trains that served them!
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*About Pentrex:* For 40+ Years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
Pentrex also owns the railroad video entertainment brands Highball Productions, Green Frog, Valhalla Video, Donner Rails, WB Video, Main Line Motion Pictures, Broken Knuckle Video, Midwest Video and distribute Revelation Video. We have nearly 1,000 railroad videos and all will be uploaded to YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss any rail action!
*About this show:* Travel back to the 1950s to visit both the West Side Lumber Company in 1951 and the Pickering Lumber Company in 1953. Follow the logs as they are cut and transported back to the mills to be cut into boards. View the various Heisler and Shay locomotives in action and learn the strengths of each.
See the men and machines that worked our forests 75 years ago - and the locomotives and trains that supported that industry. Much has changed, but we can see it now as it once was. Color film, insightful narration.
0:00 Logging Railroads and Sawmills of the 1950s
0:44 From Gold to Timber
1:36 Locos & equipment of the Pickering & Westside
4:06 Following the tree from forest to sawmill
5:58 Heislers and Shays at work
9:09 At the sawmill
10:45 Log ponds at Pickering & Westside Mills
12:30 Rare look Inside a 1950s sawmill
14:56 Getting the lumber to markets
17:06 How it all ended, consolidation and then fire
Thumbnail image credit:
Clark Kinsey via a Public Domain license
Visit the West Side Lumber Company in 1951 and the Pickering Lumber Company in 1953. This is rare color film with knowledgeable and insightful narration. Here are rare scenes of tree harvesting, sawmills and the trains that served them!
*No AI was used to bring this show to you.* Read about our AI Policy and how we get videos ready for YouTube at: Pentrex.com/AI
*About Pentrex:* For 40+ Years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
Pentrex also owns the railroad video entertainment brands Highball Productions, Green Frog, Valhalla Video, Donner Rails, WB Video, Main Line Motion Pictures, Broken Knuckle Video, Midwest Video and distribute Revelation Video. We have nearly 1,000 railroad videos and all will be uploaded to YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss any rail action!
*About this show:* Travel back to the 1950s to visit both the West Side Lumber Company in 1951 and the Pickering Lumber Company in 1953. Follow the logs as they are cut and transported back to the mills to be cut into boards. View the various Heisler and Shay locomotives in action and learn the strengths of each.
See the men and machines that worked our forests 75 years ago - and the locomotives and trains that supported that industry. Much has changed, but we can see it now as it once was. Color film, insightful narration.
0:00 Logging Railroads and Sawmills of the 1950s
0:44 From Gold to Timber
1:36 Locos & equipment of the Pickering & Westside
4:06 Following the tree from forest to sawmill
5:58 Heislers and Shays at work
9:09 At the sawmill
10:45 Log ponds at Pickering & Westside Mills
12:30 Rare look Inside a 1950s sawmill
14:56 Getting the lumber to markets
17:06 How it all ended, consolidation and then fire
Thumbnail image credit:
Clark Kinsey via a Public Domain license
