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125: 263:, hosted rod and geared steam locomotives, and for a time, even connected the Collins Pine empire to the outside world as the Hickory Valley Railroad. The railroad featured an entry in the Official Railway Guide, a formal timetable, and the only rail bridge across the Allegheny River between Oil City and Warren to connect the empire to the Pennsylvania Railroad at West Hickory. 63: 22: 266:
W&D's policies of widespread selective tract cutting resulted in the logging railroads being active until the 1930s, supplying the Mayburg Chemical Company with chemical wood on second-growth tracts, and contributing to the survival of the Sheffield & Tionesta Railroad until World War II.
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Allegheny Valley Logging Railroads: locomotives, sawmills, pine timber ; Warren, Forest, Venango, Crawford, Erie Counties
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Pine Knots and Bark Peeler: the story of five generations of American lumbermen
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Between 1887 and 1938, railroads built and owned by the
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