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The logging railroads of New Hampshire generally used "log bunks" to haul logs out of the woods to the mills.
The White Mountain Central has preserved a set of them that see service during the annual September Railroad Days celebration.
Many of the bunks were fabricated from the trucks from passenger coaches. Others were built from parts manufactured by the Portland Company of Portland, Maine.

Photographed by Ben Perry, September, 2008.
Added to the photo archive by Ben Perry, September 15, 2010.
Railroad: White Mountain Central.

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The EB&L had a permanence about it that most of the NH logging railroads lacked. One of the examples are these log bunks. In vast contrast to the last logging railroad to be constructed in the State, the Beebe River RR, the EB&L had steel framed, standardized log bunks, either constructed new or completely refurbished, with steel trip stakes for off-loading. They were reputed to have a capacity for 7000 board feet of timber, in contrast to virtually all other railroads that used wooden frames trucks with a capacity of only 4000board feet.

Posted by Steven Hall on 2016-09-19 12:29:04


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