Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1917 — FREIGHT TRAIN SWITCHED BY HORSES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FREIGHT TRAIN SWITCHED BY HORSES

~ When a yard switch engine broke down at Eau Claire, recently a train of 19 flat curs. carrying hemlock logs for a paper mill, was switched by two teams of heavy Percheron horses belonging to the paper company The freight load moved was 118.000 feet of timber, weighing 944,000 pounds, in addition to the weight of the cars. The team, weighed 3,400 pounds each.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.

PERCHERONS USED FOR MOVING LOADED CARS.