Molino Junction, Molino Timber Company Shipping station and receiving point for the Molino Timber Company at Molino (Junction), on a branch of the Southern Pacific. The Molino Timber Company was incorporated in 1911 as a subcontracting company of the Loma Prieta Lumber Company. Molino used 30-inch narrow gauge cars to transport their lumber. These narrow gauge cars used the smaller rail seen between the standard rails of the left-hand track. The trestle on the far right led to the Loma Prieta Company's sawmill. Source of information: Notes on front of photo Powell pp. 129,134I,134J Hamman p. 65 At Molino (Santa Cruz Mountains, Loma Prieta area, 3 miles from Aptos), in what became Forest of Nisene Marks State Park
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Shipping station and receiving point for the Molino Timber Company at Molino (Junction), on a branch of the Southern Pacific. The Molino Timber Company was incorporated in 1911 as a subcontracting company of the Loma Prieta Lumber Company. Molino used 30-inch narrow gauge cars to transport their lumber. These narrow gauge cars used the smaller rail seen between the standard rails of the left-hand track. The trestle on the far right led to the Loma Prieta Company's sawmill. Source of information: Notes on front of photo Powell pp. 129,134I,134J Hamman p. 65 At Molino (Santa Cruz Mountains, Loma Prieta area, 3 miles from Aptos), in what became Forest of Nisene Marks State Park
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image
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LH-0050
Language
English
Subject
Lumbering Railroads Mills-Lumber Molino Timber Company Loma Prieta Lumber Company
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