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The Tail Track Art Print
The history of logging in the Pacific Northwest records many innovative solutions to difficult problems. The logging operation near Lost Creek in the late 1930s presented one of these problems - a landing with no room for a tail track (a track used for holding empty railroad trucks waiting to be loaded) because of the steep terrain.
This tail track was built by anchoring a couple of logs to a tree, and laying crossties and rails on them to accommodate 3 sets of trucks, saving the expense of driving piling for this operation. Logs were skylined to this point from several yarding trees by the swing donkey on the left, and loaded by the donkey on the right. They were then transported by a Lima Shay locomotive to a sawmill in the valley below, just south of Dexter, Oregon.
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