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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in p
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Train and several sets of railroad tracks in the snow, Massachusetts] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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View of the grounds at the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Railroad crossing along the Skyline Drive, Virginia (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Wreck of Teacher's train. Easton, Pa. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Southern U.S. ... Louisiana? (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. trains going through Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains, Cajon, Calif. On the right, streamliner "Chief" going west; in the background, on the left, a freight train with a helper engine, going east. Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Night view of part of Santa Fe R.R. yard, Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Illinois Central R.R., freight cars in South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Ga. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chic
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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New York & bridges from Brooklyn (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1913
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C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)
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- 42 favorites
- 50,290 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
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- 49,754 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard] (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 104 favorites
- 49,662 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 17 favorites
- 48,459 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Coke being pushed into a quenching car, Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Mich. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 49 favorites
- 47,666 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 97 favorites
- 46,709 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 74 favorites
- 46,097 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train waiting in a siding to meet an east bound train, Ricardo, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 71 favorites
- 45,574 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 66 favorites
- 45,369 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 8 favorites
- 45,122 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill., Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 55 favorites
- 45,040 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 23 favorites
- 44,481 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight locomotives in the roundhouse, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 119 favorites
- 44,255 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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