Southern Pacific Wood Preserving Works photograph album
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Title: Southern Pacific Wood Preserving Works photograph album
Dates: 1908
Collection Number: MS 824
Creator/Collector:
Southern Pacific
Extent: 1 album
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: This album presents the total story of taking raw wood and pressure treating the wood with creosote and turning out a finished
product.
Language of Material: English
This collection is open for research
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Southern Pacific Wood Preserving Works photograph album. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Friends of the California State Railroad Museum, circa 1983-1987
Scope and Content of Collection
This album presents the total story of taking raw wood and pressure treating the wood with creosote and turning out a finished
product of railroad ties, bridge timbers, and telegraph poles. All photos were taken at West Oakland, California at the Southern
Pacific facility. The album begins with photos of frest cut lumber. A British sailing ship "Sardhanz" is shown unloading
barrels of creosote in November, 1908. The loading platforms for the retorts are shown, followed by the pump room, the office
and the laboratory.
A number of sailing ships bringing in raw products of timber and creosote are shown bringing in raw products and taking away
the finished product. Ships include "Tallac", "Robt R. Hind", "Jupiter", "Hornelyn", "J. H. Lunsmann", "Cecil" and "Tahama".
A number of photos show the Southern Pacific Company's portable wood preserving works.
Other creosote plants shown are: a Union Pacific Railroad plant at Laramie, Wyoming, a Texas & New Orleans Railroad plant
at Houston, Texas and the International Creosote Works at Beaumont, Texas.
The album then shows some of the timber operations like the saw mill at Weed, California. There are dozens of photographs
of oil pumping plants from St. Louis, Missouri, Somers, Montana, Victoria, BC, Canada, and Santa Rosalia, Baja Calfornia,
Mexico.
[Album 47]
wood preserving