This scene shows a pile driver powered by a small steam donkey, driving piling for a railroad trestle in the Cascade Mountains near Dexter, Oregon, during the early 1900s. Building an early-day logging railroad was generally accomplished by sidecasting with a power shovel, and using a pile driver to build trestles to cross deep canyons, streams, and swampy areas. In the rugged mountains of the west coast there were many such trestles, some reaching heights of 175-ft. and higher.
Logging trestles of this type were a common sight at one time in the west, and having served their purpose, are now but a memory occupying a few pages of interesting reading in history books.
(This subject was painted from a photo taken by Nat Giustina when he was 11 years old.)

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