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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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is not practicable to cut and haullogs to the track in summer, part of thosecut in winter are hauled onto inlandlakes, boomed up in the spring, and, whenthe ice goes out, are loaded with gin-polehoisters or loading machines, as shown.Each kind works in pairs, so two cars one picturesque, it is hard to yield thepalm to any one of them. All the lakesabound with fish, and many have neverhad a hook cast in their waters. Thepicture showing what a boy can do in aquarter of an hour before breakfast makesit unnecessary for me to tell any fishstories J. N. Sanborn,Master Mechanic.Brainerd, Minn. The Locomotive John Bull. Editors: Many photographs and diagrams existof the engine John Bull now at Wash-ington, but no complete official elevationof the engine as it was when it left theworks of R. Stephenson & Co. has yetappeared in print in this country. I there-fore think the diagram sent herewith willbe of interest on both sides of the Atlan-tic. Clement S. Stretton, C. K. Leicester, England.
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ORIGINAL DRAWING OF THE JOHN HULL. Locomotive Enghicrhig are loaded at a time at each loadingworks. Under favorable conditions, i. e.,fairly large logs and wind holding themclose to shore, 150 to 175 cars may beloaded per day by one pair of machines.Something of the hazardous work ofloading may be imagined by noting in thepicture the man caught in the act of step-ping over a log. As the log comes offthe skids, the men on the load stand withone foot raised for that much of a startfor a jump in case it rolls too far. Whilethe B. & N. M. is primarily a loggingroad, and hauls more timber in a seasonthan any other. I am told (150.000,000feet in 1896), it does a good local freightand passenger traffic incidental to thesettling up of the country, and is de-veloping a great summer-resort business.Leech Lake, with its 700 miles of shoreline, is the largest, and by some claimedto be the handsomest body of water ad-jacent to our line: but where you can. atone point in our territory, find 175

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