MER Clinic: Logging Railroads of Pennsylvania – Part 2

The peak period of logging by rail in Pennsylvania ran from 1880 until roughly 1929. During that period there were literally hundreds of logging railroads that came, operated, and then disappeared. About half of those railroads were narrow gauge. Examples of the motive power and other equipment used by these railroads, along with a discussion of the large variety of industries they served will be looked at from both a prototype and modeling perspective.

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