Hollywood Outtakes: Hammond Lumber No. 11

The Hammond Lumber Railroad operated out of Samoa, on the northern California coast. 2-8-0 No. 11 was built in the Samoa shops in 1910. Who took this pair of shots, coming and going, of her at work? I don't know if anybody knows at this point. This was the only film I could find of her in the archives.
The Hammond Lumber Company operated a large sawmill complex in Samoa on a spit of land across Arcata Bay from Eureka, California. Its railroad brought wood to Samoa from further north up the coast. Connected, for a time, to the national rail network via the Northwestern Pacific, it inherited some of its trackage when the latter pulled out of the area. The last train on the line ran in 1948.
The original film is silent, unfortunately, and I haven't added any sound effects or music.

[@jeffmoore4048]

Thanks for posting this. Valuable footage indeed. A couple quick notes, the Hammond railroad once extended almost to the Big Lagoon country, though the railroad was cut back to Crannell shortly after a 1944 forest fire burned several trestles. The remaining railroad from Crannell to Samoa kept running until 1961, the last couple years under Georgia Pacific ownership after they bought out Hammond. Finally, the NWP continued operating to the region until 1984, with some service disruptions caused by storm damage and tunnel fires, a couple shortlines kept trains running into the first days of 1998. Thanks again for posting this!

[@dragonsbreath1984]

I was stationed at MCAS Tustin in the late 80’s. The base had those giant airship hangars that I worked in every day. I learned from a contractor doing repairs to one of the hangars that all the structural wood beams were redwood from northern Cal. Makes you wonder if those beams went across that Hammond road.

[@geneaker915]

I know this area well. When I was a kid I would sometimes accompany him when he made his weekly bakery delivery run to Crannell, the Hammond Lumber company town on this line. Later, I hiked along a number of the abandoned logging railroad rights-of-way in the area.

[@egparis18]

Thank you very much for this upload.

[@jimmydee1130]

That's a lotta houses.