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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
  • 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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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed at Tube Turns, Inc., by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die, Louisville, Ky. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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