Private company
Sugar Pine Lumber Company
Logo: Sugar Pine Logging Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
Defunct logging company in Madera and Fresno County, California, US
The Sugar Pine Lumber Company was an early 20th century logging operation and railroad in the Sierra Nevada. Unable to secure water rights to build a log flume, the company operated "the crookedest railroad in the world. " They later developed the Minarets-type locomotive, the largest and most powerful saddle tank locomotive ever made.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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The Sugar Pine Lumber Company was an early 20th century logging operation and railroad in the Sierra Nevada. Unable to secure water rights to build a log flume, the company operated "the crookedest railroad in the world." They later developed the Minarets-type locomotive, the largest and most powerful saddle tank locomotive ever made.2
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- 4Wikimedia CommonsSugar Pine Lumber Company photo by C.C. Laval, Public domain