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Dr. Carl Schenck (left) and Reuben B. Robertson, manager of the Champion Fibre Company, (right) stand in a parking lot near Sunburst, NC to honor the Biltmore Forest School's relocation to Sunburst in 1910. Behind the men are two automobiles and a…

Champion's famous quality control starts right with the trees, which we now see cut to short length. Here we are, then, at a typical woodyard, not far from where the trees themselves were felled. Champion uses more than 2100 cords of four-foot logs,…

A #6 Shay locomotive steam engine on railroad tracks, belonging to Ely-Thomas Lumber Company.

Front view of a #8 Shay locomotive steam engine transporting logs through the forest.

A #1 Shay locomotive steam train engine transporting wood through the forest with workmen.

Side view of a #2 Shay locomotive steam train engine with three workmen in urbanized area.

Side view of a #1 Shay locomotive crossing a log bridge in the forest. Note a crane at rear, used to haul logs onto train carriages.

Front view of Shay locomotive loaded with chestnut wood. Workers from left to right: Lem Daniels, John Buckner (Engineer), H. Henley and Charles Buckner (John's brother).

Forest scene, oxen hauling sled full of bark with two workmen at rear.

A crew of timber cutters in the forest with their equipment consisting of axes and a handsaw.