
This is the story of the West Side Flume and Logging Co. Railroad, the little railroad that moved the big wood out of the mountains of California! Gargantuan logs ride narrow rails down slot canyons and over dizzying trestles. Shays and Heislers battle impossible grades to reach the high camps.
It's all here: the airborne ballet at the reloads with ten-ton logs poised for feather-light placement, the explosive water dumps, the log camps, water tanks, skeleton flat cars — even the very last train to run on the West Side. This labor of devotion by filmmaker Glenn Beier presents the colorful drama of working amid the tall timber of the West.
Your ticket to the best archival railroad footage.

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