Rails were a major way of transporting logs, and often required long and fairly shaky viaducts. This example on the West Coast carried logs from Lake Haupiri up to the Bell Hill mill, inland from Greymouth.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society Collection
Reference:
1/2-060038
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