Trucked to a rail loading station. Then to the Port McNeill ? Then exported? Export a lot of pulp wood to China & Japan? Few logs on the train look like old growth, big ones Still have several mills that process dimensional lumber for export? The North 7/8 of Vancouver Island seems like a logging community . Big cities on the south/east end. Stay on the N end, big cities are just to visit.
The logs are off loaded from the trains at Beaver Cove, BC (Goggle Earth) You will see the large dryland sort and booming ground and also the chip plant and piles of woodchips which are loaded onto large scows for water transport to the southern pulp mills. At the site of the dry land sort, a pulp mill was built in the 1920s but never turned a wheel with the onset of the 1930s and the depression. The 3 concrete digesters (cylinder shapes) from the pulp mill can still be seen between the booming ground and the water's edge. The other remaining structure is the original machine shop from the pulp mill which is still used as the shop at the dryland sort. If you type in Vernon Lake, BC on Goggle earth, the Southern end of the railway just ends to the north of the lake in the next valley bottom. There is about 60 miles of track and 4 reloads where the loads are transferred from truck to rail; moving on average 120 to 150 - 50 ton loads per day. From what I understand, most of the bigger wood is milled in the south of BC or Puget Sound. Much of the smaller second growth and especially Hemlock is cut or exported to China for the manufacture of Pallets! I do agree. Staying on the North Island is the best way to go, with only trips of necessity to the Big Smokes of the South.
Know little about the dryland sort side of things so will let the pictures do the talking ! The three round cylinders that you can see lying in the water are the digesters from the pulp mill that never turned a wheel.
Looks like great country! Does it ever not rain? Prolly like Nova Scotia over on this end of the world. All fog and rough ocean weather, but nice sometimes too. ...well for a month or two in the summer.
The Chip Plant. Again I know little of this operation so will let the pictures talk . Sure looks like some nice firewood chunks in that dump box ! But I guess you still need newspaper to start the fire !
Cool stuff. Google earth pics can just see the train cars loaded with logs. just South of the above pic
Okay, how did you download (upload?) the pictures into your reply? Print screen, copy and paste? Right click, copy and paste?
Most times I use google earth, file ./ save/ save image/ save as this one I used Goog earth. Goog Earth in bottom right in pic Also Mac has a grab function, I can select parts of the screen, to cut & paste & save as a jpeg
Cool, I used the toolbar on top to save image. This is a very old picture. The street view is much newer. Our house with the old, old roof. I am using Windows 7.
You ever go to street view, drag the guy top right & drop on your street? Sometimes more recent pictures
