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Tractor on Tracks Hauling 4-foot Debarked Logs in the Plaster Rock Area
Tractor on Tracks Hauling 4-foot Debarked Logs in the Plaster Rock Area

Date: 1951
Creator:
Source: CDEM Fraser Companies Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: A tractor hauls a load of 4-foot debarked logs in the Plaster Rock area in 1951. The loggers cut the trees,debarked 20-foot sections and then reduced them to 16-foot logs sending the 4-foot tops to the Fraser pulp mill of Edmundston by train.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Lumber, Transportation, Plaster Rock