Logging Railroads
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N 43° 55.765 W 084° 46.104
16T E 679130 N 4866454
Located in a roadside park on the west side of Old US-27, between Hatton and Lincoln Roads. About halfway between Harrison and Clare.
Waymark Code: WM14TE
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/14/2007
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Michigan's lumbermen found many areas were too far from rivers for logs to be taken to the mills in the spring drive. After 1870 the logging railroad came into increasing use as the means of opening these regions. The Lake George and Muskegon Railroad here in Clare County began hauling logs seven miles to the Muskegon River in 1877. New stream sawmills soon went up near these narrow-gauge lines because of the steady supply of timber that the logging trains furnished. Shown above is the Shays train, a type specially designed for use on the logging railroads.
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