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Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Ga. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Ga. (LOC)
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- 39 favorites
- 68,436 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Company, Greensboro, Ga. (LOC)
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- 14 favorites
- 67,358 views
- 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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- 170 favorites
- 67,268 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Ga. (LOC)
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- 16 favorites
- 66,660 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 71 favorites
- 66,060 views
- Date taken: 1939
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A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 88 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
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Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 116 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
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Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards for analysing solutions of metals used in locomotives and the railroad plant, in general, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 59 favorites
- 59,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 92 favorites
- 59,463 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 96 favorites
- 56,813 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Packing oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 68 favorites
- 54,572 views
- 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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- 26 favorites
- 53,682 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street locomotive shops (LOC)
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- 12 comments
- 14 favorites
- 48,685 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 17 favorites
- 48,459 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 97 favorites
- 46,709 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Sugar cane land, Yabucoa Valley? Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 11 favorites
- 46,682 views
- Date taken: 1939
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In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 180 favorites
- 46,263 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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
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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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- 45,369 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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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- 8 favorites
- 45,122 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, 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 place. Santa Fe R.R. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 87 favorites
- 44,904 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Farm land in Texas panhandle near Amarillo, Texas. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 36 favorites
- 44,707 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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- 23 favorites
- 44,481 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 25 favorites
- 44,341 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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
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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 27 favorites
- 43,590 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 46 favorites
- 42,846 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 34 favorites
- 42,419 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 34 favorites
- 42,232 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 44 favorites
- 42,197 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 48 favorites
- 42,138 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 48 favorites
- 41,701 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 26 favorites
- 41,550 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackout regulations, flood lights, switch lights, locomotive headlights and lights on the bridge in background have been shaded to cast light downward. Broad streaks of light are caused by pa
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- 2 comments
- 57 favorites
- 40,978 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 11 favorites
- 40,224 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. All switch lights, head lights and lamps have been shaded from above in accordance with blackout regulations. The heavy light streaks are caused by paths of locomotive headlights and the thin lines b
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- 48 favorites
- 40,198 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in back
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- 22 favorites
- 39,598 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, 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 shape. Santa Fe R.R. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 47 favorites
- 38,885 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 43 favorites
- 38,514 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Painting a car at the repair or "rip" tracks at North Proviso(?), C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Servicing engines at coal and sand chutes at Argentine yard, Santa Fe R.R., Kansas City, Kansas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 37,345 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 37,272 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hump. A brakeman rides each train to signal the engineer in the locomotive at the rear; Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 37,173 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the foreground are old cars used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help; Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 13 favorites
- 37,098 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 37,066 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A freight train stopping for coal and water at a siding enroute to Gallup, New Mexico, near Laguna, N.M. (LOC)
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- 24 favorites
- 36,987 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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