Logging companies got a lot of timber from the mountain to the mill by locomotive. Loading and unloading a logging train was no easy feat, especially the "longest log train in the world" shown here. Unlike the river drives, trains ran year-round, and they became indispensable to logging efforts.
A little later in the century, logging trucks provided another way to get lumber from the landing to the mill. They could go where trains couldn't, but were much more likely to upset—usually causing both property damage and injury when they did.
You could also keep floating the logs down the mountain and back to the mill pond—the traditional method of transport. Log drives were incredibly dangerous, especially for those who had the specific job of clearing up log jams. Similar hazards existed for the crew working the mill pond: crushing logs, unsteady footing, and always the risk of drowning.