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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Retort House: 1912
April 11, 1912. "Detroit City Gas Co. -- foundation for retort house." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Coke Oven Gas
Retort house: "town gas" manufactured by heating coal in the absence of air.
AKA coke oven gas (COG).
Before my time there, U. S. Steel in Gary, IN manufactured COG which was used to heat the coke batteries and was also piped into the City of Gary for use in homes and businesses in lieu of natural gas.
Location
That was just down the road from the quip station.
Many yards of concrete
The cart in the background carries a continuous batching steam powered cement mixer.
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