Lombard Log Hauler

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I'm a little late to the show, but that must have been a lot of fun. Have you ever visited the engines on Chesuncook Lake?
The Eagle Lake & West Branch Railroad: History: Discover History & Explore Nature: State Parks and Public Lands: Maine ACF

No I haven't, though I have read enough about it. I just read the book 9 Mile Bridge which had a lot of stories about the baseball team from the Village of Tramway. The wife and I planned to take the kids up there this year.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Leonard Mills is another great logging museum - in Bradley. There was a gentleman- Paul Atwood who designed much of it- the water wheel, dam, holding pond, upright saw blade. (Since passed.) I used to go and help out at different times. - Further north, beyond Brownville is the Katahdin Ironworks and they had a an old charcoal making kiln. - I read it held 50 cords at a time and burnt (smoldered) for a week!

Just last fall I drove over to Peaveys and picked up a Katahdin pickeroon with a 36" handle. Well made! I use it to pick up firewood for the bucket and stove. - Too stiff to bend anymore!

My Great Great Grandfather was a Foreman for Great Northern Paper Company and worked up in the Katadin Iron Works Region until he died; murdered when he caught some guys doing timber trespass and took them to court. I got his dairies right up until the day he was shot. Of course this was back in 1898, so it was awhile ago.

It is interesting that you brought up charcoal though. I am working with the Lenard Woods Curator to do something with charcoal because it was such a huge part of forestry work in Maine, and wherever wood grew.

I tried to make a few cord of it last year to try burning in my coal stoves instead of firewood, but I was unable to get make any volume, or anything of quality.

 

[flingwing1969]

We are working on getting our steam traction engine back home where she belongs. She was used in the timbering, lumber and shingle industry here in Shingletown from 1905 to about 1938, when she was parked as an exhibit on the side of the road. She's been overhauled and then her boiler went bad but we are hoping to get her back up here sometime in the next month or so. This is what she looked like when she was a working girl. This is after being refurbished, when she was running.

 

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This is what she looked like when she was a working girl....

Those horses just realized their jobs have been outsourced...

Neat machine! Nice video, too. Man, I love steam whistles. :thumbsup:

 

[Jstpssng]

Here's another interesting place, although it predates the industrial age.
Washburn-Norlands Living History Center - Where History Comes to Life! - Home

We have some old horse drawn tillage equipment which will be looking for a new home soon; this is on the list of possible donees.
I've never stopped, but used to drive by there often when I was living down that way. If they happened to be having a demonstration day, it was pretty interesting as I was going by.