The History of Logging Railroads — Why America Built 15,000 Miles of Track Just to Move Timber

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• CL

  @clintsturgeon5252 · 4 months ago

  River drives also took place in much of the hardwood region as well. &nbsp; It is recorded history at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville North Carolina that timber harvested from the estate, which was originally hundreds of thousands of acres, was cut and floated down the French Broad River.<br><br>When I was much younger than I am now, a man then in his 70&apos;s that was a neighbor told me that his grandfather floated white oak logs down the White River in Indiana all the way down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where the logs were sold and then walked back home; he said about a 4 month trip. &nbsp;As I recall, his grandfather was 13 when he first started doing it, pretty normal in the 1800&apos;s.<br><br>I&apos;m 7th generation timberman myself on this continent, as it bares certainty my ancestors were also woodsmen in German before jumping off the boat in America in 1680.

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• TA

  @TacticalLoreee · 1 month ago

  the engineering on those shay locomotievs climbing 14% grades is mind blowing bro like de<a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/aass">#aass</a>

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• AS

  @asullivan4047 · 4 months ago

  Interestingly informative &amp; entertaining 🤗. Excellent still/motion photography pictues enabling viewers 👀 to better understand what the orator is describing 😉. Unfortunately the price of progress ment clear cutting ✂️ forrost regions 😳

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• GC

  @gc636 · 3 months ago

  Well done!

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• KE

  @Kevin-s1c5z · 4 months ago

  Excellent video. &nbsp;I learned about logging railroads and the Weeks Act some years ago and always am interested to learn more. &nbsp;What sources did you reference?

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• SU

  @sunitmandal2778 · 1 month ago

  America nad its massive area with mountains on the west, Oceans on the north, south, east and west and besides the Wooden jungles in and around the hills with more than requirement open are for settlement and and hills/ jungles with trees for settlement and establishment as is reaquired for use.

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• GR

  @GregoryTheGreatOne · 3 months ago

  HILARIOUS!!😂

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• DA

  @davidweathington9137 · 1 month ago

  All that sounded good except for the part about why it was done they were stripping the land of all the trees that were left after the great mud flood

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• RI

  @richardleon1319 · 1 month ago

  Where are the &nbsp;SHAY locomotives?

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• DL

  @dlitt-dr6ft · 1 month ago

  Now I understand why the Bible refers to America as the new Babylon the greed and selfishness molten millionaires has built their wealth with the blood of innocent people, the &nbsp;aftermath whose worse than any type of severe storm fire earthquake flood or anything else, America you better start praying for your soul for to time is it hand

• LA

  @LarryGamble-k8i · 4 months ago

  How about a story on cotton

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