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1925 Jordan Spreader. The V-shaped plow on the nose lowers down between the rails. Wings, here, folded alongside, could clear snow, etc. from the tracks and also scrape away brush & weeds as well as gouge ditches & spread ballast.
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Towable Road Grader
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D-8 Cat with a ripping type blade, designed to uproot brush without making a huge pile of earth in front of the Cat. It is towing a device which does more of the same.
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A ripping trailer towed behind a big Cat. The points are secured off the ground by steel pins. With pins knocked loose, they will slide down and dig into the ground to pull up roots and brush. The wheels are solid steel, about 6" thick.
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Cable spools on the rear of this large Cat, probably a D-7 or 8, enable it to perform the job of the donkey. It also allows the use of a log skidder by threading the cable thru the eye at the top of the skidder.
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Caterpillar 'thirty' in the Logging Museum outdoor display at Antique Powerland, in Brooks, Oregon.
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Case 'donkey' with start crank. A donkey drags logs by reeling in cable which passes thru a block on a spar pole or a yarder pole. Older donkeys had steam power, newer ones, diesel.
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Almost in the center of this picture is a two cylinder gasoline motor, along side the massive diesel engine of this Caterpillar. This "pony engine" is the starter motor for the big diesel. It is identified by its carbeurator.
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In Western Oregon, thorny blackberry vines will take over almost anything, given a chance.
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Track repair vehicle, Mt. Angel,OR
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Track repair vehicle, Mt. Angel,OR
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Cylindrical assemblies of reinforcing steel bars and hoops, that will ultimately become a part of the support columns for a new bridge in downtown Salem, OR
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A realtor's office occupies this shiny red caboose, in Albany, Oregon
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A steam donkey which sits in front of the Polk County Museum, in Rickreall, Oregon. This machine was in use up into the 1930s.
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A steam donkey which sits in front of the Polk County Museum, in Rickreall, Oregon. This machine was in use up into the 1930s.
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Rusting tank car in the storage yard at the Portland & Western RR maintenance yard, in Independence, Oregon
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Old railroad car at the railroad maintenance shop in Independence, OR
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Willamette & Pacific Locomotive creeping through Salem along the edge of Riverfront Park. Pullin a train of empty log cars.
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Willamette & Pacific Locomotive
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Portland & Western Locomotive
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Track Repair Vehicle
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