Giant logs on railroad car, October 1935

In October of 1935 an employee extends his hand to demonstrate the massive size of one of the four giant logs being carried on a railroad car to Tacoma. The sections came from a 700-year-old Douglas fir, the largest seen at the St. Paul & Tacoma mill in fifteen years. NWR, M6-4,http://goo.gl/Bv1vma, opens a new window