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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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Deluxe Wash: 1942
November 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Washing a locomotive at the coaling station at an Illinois Central railyard." Triple Foam and Rain-X, $3 extra. Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Mountain type locomotive
The locomotive appears to be an Illinois Central 4-8-2 Mountain type. The engine number is barely readable on the side of the sandbox atop the boiler; it looks to me like 2504, which would make the engine one of the 2500 Class, rebuilt from older 2-10-2s in IC's Paducah Shops between 1937 and 1943.
A mighty beast.
I do remember some steam on rails, only dimly. Much more exiting than diesel. However, I do love the smell of GM diesels having served in the last US diesel/electric submarine in the USN.
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