1972 Press Photo Workmen use Caterpillar to remove the rails and pull the spikes

Workmen use a Caterpillar equipped with a roller to lift the rails and pull the spikes. The Covington-Hammond area is losing another of its ties with history. Yesterday it was the old sawmills and box factories, turpentine plants and tung oil plantations, gone now and almost forgotten.

Photo is dated 1972.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.