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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- 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
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Red Comb Feeds: 1943
January 1943. Riverdale, Illinois. "Freight operations of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Grain elevator and mill at a siding of the Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard south of Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Freezing haze
made buildings in the background look as if being painted.
Fallen Flags
PM Pere Marquette
CCC&StL Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & St. Louis "Big 4"
NYC New York Central
SL-SF St Louis-San Francisco "The Frisco"
DT&I Detroit, Toledo & Ironton "We Have the Connections" Henry Ford's RR
It used to be fun to see how many different carriers cars were in a freight train. Now unmarked private cars (reporting marks end in X) go sliding by incognito.
A dangerous job made worse
Sleet or freezing rain has been the order of the day here. Everything is covered with a glaze of ice, making the easiest tasks of railroading a threat to life and limb.
All of the railroads represented by the boxcars here are long gone.
Water Stop
Today's photographer might use AI to remove the arm (water stop?) from the image. Or maybe not.
Perhaps the tall stack as well.
I say, leave 'em in -- they're part of the story.
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