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The Face of America: Logging Train. Smell the pine on the young day's air. Smell the sweet steam of the sawdust piles. Hear the petulent rumble of the logs, the mill pond's sleepy protest and the lazy panting of old No. 7 as she waits for the last load of ponderosa to go overboard. This is the start of a new morning in Klickitat Canyon, on the southern rim of the timber country of Washington state. Now old No. 7 will haul the empties eighteen miles up the rugged, winding canyon to a loading point where the log trucks dump their loads from the cutting areas 100 miles away. Known as a Lima-Shay geared engine - made by Lima, dreamed up by Ephriam Shay, an inventive logger of the last century - this thirty-one-year-old, ninety-ton lady carries her oil-fired boiler offset to the left and three vertical steam pistons amidships on the right side. The driveshaft, articulated for maneuverability, is geared to all the right-side engine and tender wheels - giving No. 7 the traction of a herd of bull elephants. Speed? "She'll do thirteen miles an hour when the grade's her way, maybe faster going off the edge of a cliff. Photograph by John Bickel. ..... 1960 Saturday Evening Post Picture, A5226A.


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The Face of America: Logging Train. Smell the pine on the young day's air. Smell the sweet steam of the sawdust piles. Hear the petulent rumble of the logs, the mill pond's sleepy protest and the lazy panting of old No. 7 as she waits for the last load of ponderosa to go overboard. This is the start of a new morning in Klickitat Canyon, on the southern rim of the timber country of Washington state. Now old No. 7 will haul the empties eighteen miles up the rugged, winding canyon to a loading point where the log trucks dump their loads from the cutting areas 100 miles away. Known as a Lima-Shay geared engine - made by Lima, dreamed up by Ephriam Shay, an inventive logger of the last century - this thirty-one-year-old, ninety-ton lady carries her oil-fired boiler offset to the left and three vertical steam pistons amidships on the right side. The driveshaft, articulated for maneuverability, is geared to all the right-side engine and tender wheels - giving No. 7 the traction of a herd of bull elephants. Speed? "She'll do thirteen miles an hour when the grade's her way, maybe faster going off the edge of a cliff. Photograph by John Bickel. ..... 1960 Saturday Evening Post Picture, A5226A.
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