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Narrow gauge logging railroad somewhere in Pennsylvania, circa 1900.
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Transporting logs off the mountains often involved the use of trains. Paths cut into the mountains, and pollution caused by the trains themselves, added to the devastation of the forest.

Credit: Courtesy Pennsylvania State Archives

Transporting logs off the mountains often involved the use of trains. Paths cut into the mountains and the pollution caused by the trains themselves added to the devastation of  forests.

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