Sawmills

Loading Wood Chips in Railway Cars at the Plaster Rock Fraser Sawmill

Date: after 1973
Creator:
Source: Cdem Fraser Companies, Limited Collection
Collaborator(s): Mr. Martin N. Turgeon

Description: We see the chip cyclone on top of train storage cars. They were used to reduce air pressure to load wood chips on trains. Once loaded, the Canadian Pacific Railway freight would carry the cars with the wood chips to the Edmundston or Atholville Fraser Mills.

Subject: New Brunswick, Logging, Sawmills, Plaster Rock

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