This scene shows Douglas Fir logs being loaded onto Southern Pacific flatcars at a Silver Falls Timber Company landing in the early 1900s. This landing was probably located in the Abiqua Basin in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range in western Oregon. Silver Falls Timber Company brought the first trainload of Douglas Fir logs out of that basin.

Silver Falls Timber Company was a fair-sized operation with many miles of railroad track running through many acres of prime timber. The last trainload of logs taken out of the woods by this company was in 1936. A devastating forest fire, which has always been the greatest menace faced by loggers, marked the end of the company.