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JOANNA GODDEN MARRIED
and Other Stories
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HARPER & BROTHE
THE LAST LOGGING RAILWAY IN EASTERN CANADA
Thurso, Québec in December Six thirty a.m. It's very cold - minus 30 degrees. All that can be heard is the squeaking of the snow underfoot - almost deafening in the still, pre-dawn gas. Inside the Car Shop there are two tracks. Along the north track are three General Electric 70 ton locomotives that loom large in the semi darkness. Walking down the south track we pass #10, a GE 50 ton locomotive with side rods. It leans silently to the right, as it has since time immemorial, and sports the scars of many battles but seems to acquire won most of them. Everywhere the locomotive shows signs of the inventiveness and adaptation that have served to breathe existence into this short line, such as its home made pilot - truly the art of a master welder.
We go by an ancient log car, the snow melting from its dense frozen frame. It is thawing out ready to be worked on this morning. Two arch bar trucks, a K triple brake valve and truss rods might place this car in a museum but it is a workaday car ideally suited for logging operations. It i
THE LAST LOGGING RAILWAY IN EASTERN CANADA
Inside the Car Shop there are two tracks. Along the north track are three General Electric 70 ton locomotives that loom large in the semi darkness. Walking down the south track we pass #10, a GE 50 ton locomotive with side rods. It leans silently to the right, as it has since time immemorial, and sports the scars of many battles but seems to acquire won most of them. Everywhere the locomotive shows signs of the inventiveness and adaptation that have served to breathe existence into this short line, such as its home made pilot - truly the art of a master welder.
We go by an ancient log car, the snow melting from its dense frozen frame. It is thawing out ready to be worked on this morning. Two arch bar trucks, a K triple brake valve and truss rods might place this car in a museum but it is a workaday car ideally suited for logging operations. It i