Western Woods 175 



The steam engine starts, the logs begin to move. 

 There are many of them fastened together, form- 

 ing a train of logs. For several miles they are 

 dragged like this, until they come to a real rail- 

 road. 



The railroad track is beside a steep hill, and 

 the logs from the woods are easily rolled upon 

 the flatcars. See how large those logs are one 

 log makes a carload. Heavy chains around the 

 logs keep them from rolling off the cars; if they 

 were to fall off, the logging train would probably 

 be wrecked. The track is far too rough for much 

 speed, and the train moves slowly around the 

 sharp curves and over the high wooden trestles 

 of the railroad that leads to the mill. 



