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by the yarding or road engine. Such hxnchngs were relatively 
expensive to construct and in recent years the gin-pole method, 
and the landing have been superseded by some overhead loading 
device^ which does not require a landing, and which is faster than 
the gin-pole method, also permitting some choice in the order in 
which logs are loaded on the cars. 
1 See page 367. 
