This would make for an interesting trackside industry!
Mitch
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The Lionel sawmill has pretty logs - nice rounds in and pretty flats out!
There is a sawmill like this close to me in S. NJ - the family has been running it for a long time - the guy in the cab watches the blade teeth as the log is going through to judge how fast to feed it - the teeth act like a strobe timer
That is a big blade!
Granddad had a sawmill for many years. He started out with a Frick steam tractor for power and in later years switched to an IH gasoline engine.
Starting a Set:
Well into a set as witnessed by the stacks of lumber.
Nothing hydraulic here. Everything done by hand including turning the log.
On a good day they would mill 10,000 board feet. Dad firing the boiler.
These pics taken late '20s through mid '40s.
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love those pictures.
Cool pics
