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Unfortunately my experience with Pondosa was only well after it had fallen out of use and was left in the condition you will see here. This once was the focal point for much of the McCloud Lumber Companies operations and home to the Cheney Grant Sawmill. It was also the first permanent lumber camp for the railroad, Lumberjacks would be taken from here to the work sites, never more having to endure the portable camps. As I visited this day there were crews there in the process of tearing it down, so I hungrily snapped pictures to try and record "something" of what once was. I am not sure what all these structures were, so I may have them wrong.

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Pondosa Loop Topo

Aerials Showing the route of the Pondosa Loop

Close Up of Mill Area

Topo Map Showing Bear Flat Connections

 Shed Interior

Logging Arch, Near Mill

Drying Kilns

One of many abandoned buildings

Building Interior

Unloading Facility

Sawmill

End of line, tracks lifted near Bear Flat

Maps and Aerial Image: U.S. Geological Survey

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