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Up the Incline Art Print
The Whitney Company's Blue Star Camp, Side 3, was adjoining this scene to the right in very steep terrain. The Molly-O Climax locomotive brought loads of logs on disconnected rail trucks down the switchback line to the head of the incline. From there, the loads were lowered one at a time by the incline's steam donkey, down the mountain to a siding where they were held until a trainload was accumulated for shipment. The Big Jack would then take the logs to Whitney's mill at Garibaldi, a deep water port 9 miles north of Tillamook, Oregon, and about 20 miles west of the Blue Star Camp.
The Big Jack was a mainline Baldwin 262 locomotive owned by the Whitney Company. The Big Jack would return from the mill to the base of the incline with the empty trucks. The trucks were hooked to a line and pulled by the steam donkey back up the incline to return to the logging site.
In circa 1921–1925, the famous Blue Star Camp employed over 100 men; fallers, buckers, engineers, brakemen, cooks, cook's helpers, rigging crews, climbers, hooktenders, whistle punks, etc. Today, growing trees cover the once logged-off mountainsides - a beautiful sight! Trees - America's Renewable Resource.
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