Log Section on Cars

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $14.95

Stock #:650741
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
California-Giant Trees - This picture illustrates how the log lengths, into which a big tree is cut so it can be taken to the mill, are conveyed on special railroad trucks. The log shown in this picture, when cut up, made more than 40,000 shingles! The loading of these logs on to the railroad trucks is, in itself, a delicate and dangerous task. By means of chains the log is drawn up an incline pathway formed of dressed logs, and finally landed in place, when it is secured to the trucks.

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