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Log Hauling Train

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Description: Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs.
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Loggers Posing on Railroad Tracks

Date: 1896
Description: Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja...
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Lumber Camp

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Description: Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs.
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Logging Railroad Through the Woods

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Description: View up logging railroad tracks running through the woods.
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Loading Pine Logs

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Description: Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging.
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Logging Train

Date: 1910
Description: Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs.
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Logging Trains

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Description: Holmes Sons logging railroad ready to start for landing. Three steam engines pictured. Primary engine pulls flatbed cars loaded with logs.
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Phoenix Log Hauler

Date: 1914
Description: Steam log hauler made by Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Eau Claire, pulling loaded skids through snow. Rice Lake lumber camp, overland spur.
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Sawmill Workers Posing with Steam Engine in Forest

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Description: Two workers are posing in front of a steam engine carrying logs for an International Harvester sawmill.
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Steam Crane Loading Lumber onto Railroad Car

Date: 1916
Description: Steam crane loading lumber onto a railroad car for use at an International Harvester sawmill.
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Steam Locomotive Loaded with Logs

Date: 1915
Description: Two workers perched on a steam locomotive pulling railroad cars loaded with logs. The coal car bears the name "Deering Southwestern Railway." The railway w...
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Lumber Railroad Crew

Date: 1903
Description: A work crew of the Upham Lumber and Manufacturing Company near Athens, Wisconsin. The men are riding on a flatbed car of the Abbottsford and Northeastern R...
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Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
Description: A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #...
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Railroad Tie Mill

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Description: William Rogalsky's railroad tie mill, showing workers and logs ready to be milled. Photographer Charles J. Ruppenthal was known to have been active in Tige...
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Wisconsin & Northern Railroad Engine

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Description: Three men stand in the snow in front of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #2 (the second locomotive with this number) in the woods on the Menominee ...
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Fairchild & Northeastern Train at Greenwood

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Description: View from shoreline of the Fairchild & Northeastern steam locomotive pulling a load of logs over the Black River bridge near Greenwood. A man is standing o...
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The "Gracie May" Locomotive

Date: 1884
Description: The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a...
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Rhinelander Logging Museum

Date: 1930
Description: Logging Museum in Rhinelander.
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Logging Museum

Date: 1920
Description: Logging Museum in Rhinelander. Caption reads: "Museum, Rhinelander, Wis."
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Logs at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track.

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