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- 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
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- 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
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Drive Slow: 1925
"C & P Tel. Co." The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. garage in Washington circa 1925. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Look at the truck...
Look at the truck on the left side, third one down. You see the axle grease leaking out and getting splashed on the tire? I guess when you have a job to do you don't have time to do repairs. "Get out there and run that copper!"
C&P
We've seen just about everything else at C&PT - are there any pictures of switchboards or switching equipment?
[Unfortunately no. At least not at C&P. - Dave]
Parking Garage
I didn't know they were invented before the '50s, but according to Wikipedia multi-story garages were around at this time. I always picture old cars parked outside in the dust. It took me aback to see a picture of an indoor garage, which is such a banal thing, with '20s vehicles. This picture is so ordinary that it could have been taken today, if it weren't for the trucks!
Fascinating
A very interesting website. Nicely done. I like the data you provide on many of the photos. History has a human face here.
-- Robert Arthur Smith (www.duckparade.com)
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