In 1923, Susanville’s Lassen Lumber & Box Company hired a professional photograph to produce large leather bound photograph albums showcasing their entire operation. This was a common practice then. The purpose to attract investors.

Lassen Lumber was a much smaller operation as compared to its neighbors Fruit Growers and Red River. Due to its small size, Lassen Lumber only had three railroad locomotives, which are showcased in the above photograph.

Lassen Lumber’s railroad logging operations was short lived and ceased at the end of the 1929 logging season. The No 25, depicted above, was sold to Red River. In 1938, Red River sold it to Modesto & Empire Traction Company. What became of the other two locomotives, I do not know.

Tim