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词条 Winfield Scott Gerrish
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{{Refimprove|date=September 2014}}Winfield Scott Gerrish (born 15 Feb 1849 in Lee, Maine—died 19 May 1882 in Evart, Michigan) is credited with revolutionizing lumbering in the U.S. state of Michigan by building a seven-mile-long logging railroad from Lake George to the Muskegon River in Clare County, Michigan in 1877.[1] Although not the first logging railroad in the state, Gerrish's railroad was very successful. Garrish adopted the idea of using a steam locomotive on steel rails after seeing a Porter 0-4-0 rod engine at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.[2] However, twenty years earlier in May 1857 the Blendon Lumber Company successfully and profitably employed a standard gauge steam locomotive on its approximately seven-mile-long logging railroad that extended from the center of Blendon Township in Ottawa County, Michigan to the bank of the Grand River.[3] The use of rail allowed year round transportation of any size tree to the sawmills where unpredictable rivers were previously used.[4]

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1. ^{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DZrOpfZSA3IC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=Gerrish+railroad&source=bl&ots=FAAJzH07Q0&sig=drOH1pebLa-34IkeXbTixtHIV_Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjp3ojXkKfLAhXGipQKHbBcAa8Q6AEINjAG#v=onepage&q=Gerrish%20railroad&f=false |title=The Forests of Michigan - page 143 |publisher=University of Michigan Press, 2003 |access-date=5 March 2016}}
2. ^Michigan's White Pine Era, 1840-1900, by Rolland Harper Maybee, Michigan Historical Commission, 1960.
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.gvsu.edu/anthropology/adc/files/document/1DB0E4E0-DCDC-7956-473CC7989F113C65.pdf|title=The First Logging Railroads in the Great Lakes Region|last=Bajema|first=Carl Jay|date=April 1991|website=The First Logging Railroads in the Great Lakes Region.|publisher=Oxford University Press on behalf of Forest History Society and American Society for Environmental History|access-date=Sep 25, 2010}}
4. ^Log Transportation in the Lake States Lumber Industry 1840-1918 by William Gerald Rector, 1953.

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