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Next Stop, Sleepytown: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 12/21/2012 - 4:12pm.
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March 1943. "Barstow, California. Conductor David L. Webb sleeping in his caboose. He works on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad out of San Bernardino." With what looks like another set of those railroad-safety posters. Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
Those shoes...
Submitted by michaeljy on Sun, 12/23/2012 - 7:08pm.
Personal safety equipment was virtually non-existent back then. And, trainmen and enginemen dressed for work. I've seen plenty of photos from that era of freight crew members wearing dress shirts and ties under their bib overalls!
Hitchin' a Ride
Submitted by Cliff on Sat, 12/22/2012 - 2:23am.
Worked a stretch for the NYCRR in Detroit, and I can tell you the guy with the shoes is definitely not part of the train crew. He's likely a railroad employee hitching a free ride - a common practice in the '40s and probably now as well.
That footwear
Submitted by Ice gang on Fri, 12/21/2012 - 8:00pm.
probably doesn't meet safety standards or maybe a stylish brogue toe-cap is on the requirements for a tail end crew of a freight.
The Santa Fe "Hump Yard"
Submitted by Vintagetvs on Fri, 12/21/2012 - 6:58pm.
Barstow is home to a Hump Yard, a bunch of tracks used for assembling train cars into whatever order they need to be.
Those posters however give new meaning to the name.
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