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Caption Reads: Road Brute--In 1910, this huge steam traction engine was used to pull trains of lumber wagons from the Sierra Nevada to the mill and mines in the Angels Camp area. The engine replaced 24-mule teams. They traveled about 2 miles an hour over the dirt roads, pulling as much as 40,000 feet of lumber each trip. Standing on one of the wheels is Stephen Mayo, great-grandson of Lucien Stephens, move 82 of Angels Camp who was a fireman on one of the oil-burning engines. Stephens' daughter, Mrs. George Cooper is standing at the right. The engine is at the Angels Camp Museum.
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