Some additional business for the railroad was provided by local lumber operations. The McNitt brothers operated a gauge logging railroad from a sawmill at Hecla Park south to their timberlands from about 1899 to 1902. In the latter year, they entered a partnership with E. M. Huyett, closed the Hecla Park operation, and moved to Snydertown. A new gauge logging railroad was built northwest from Snydertown to Sand Ridge, where branches ran northeast and southwest along the ridge. This railroad operated from 1903 to 1909.