Originally Posted by
Euclid440
Several years ago, we went for a trip to Central California, were we road on one of the last working steam engines. It was a logging train for pulling the lumber out of forest. It was hundreds of miles from the ocean and I asked the guy at the museum how they got the engine and train to the forest.
He said the engine and cars came in on ship, they built a pier, lay down track as much as they had, from the ship on, several hundred feet. Assembled the engine and cars, drove the train to the end of the track, then picked up the track behind them and laid another mile of so of track until they got it to where it needed to go. Later, on another ship they got more track and eventually laid a line from the ocean to the mountains for resupply.
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