People and a giant log on rails near Bellingham, WA, 1911. In the 1890s steam powered locomotives began hauling vast quantities of logs to area mills. Timber was also shipped directly from the interior forests of Whatcom County by rail to the Bellingham waterfront for export all over the world.
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