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Skidway of more than 3,000 logs, unidentified location in Pennsylvania, circa 1890.
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Shown here is a "skidway" of more than 3000 logs next to railroad tracks.

Credit: Courtesy Pennsylvania State Archives

To prepare logs for transport by logging railroads, lumbermen dragged them to a common area called a "skidway."

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