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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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Shaft: 1955
"I thought YOU had the blueprints!"
Chicago circa 1955. "Elevator engineers." A job that has its ups and downs. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.
I wonder
What do the guts of a modern day Otis elevator look like -- microchips?
He's Got His "Stick"
When I hired out as a millwright almost 40 years ago my foreman handed me a six-foot folding rule and told me that I should ALWAYS carry it with me.
To this day I have my "stick" in my back pocket ready at a moment's notice to get those accurate measurements when necessary. I see the fellow on the ladder follows this tradesman's tradition.
Which one
Ralph, I've got at least 50 "gray wires" here.
A Movie Set?
Must be. That sure looks like Bob Hope on the headphone.
[Really?? - Dave]
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