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Log Section on Railroad Cars

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $15.95

Stock #:669546
Type: Postcard
Era: Undivided Back
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
This picture illustrates how the log lengths, into which a big tree is cut ere 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 itself, a delicate and dangerous task. By means of chains the log is drawn up an inclined pathway formed of dressed logs, and finally landed in place, when it is secured to the trucks.

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