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Night Freight: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/05/2007 - 7:24am.
Santa Fe R.R. yard at night, Kansas City, Kansas. March 1943. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. <View full size. to see the light trails made by the yard workers' torches in this time exposure, as well as a phantom number (3167, at right) that must have been on a train that paused in front of the camera.
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There's the moon
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 12:17pm.
The streak in the upper left is a crescent moon, being occasionally obscured by clouds in a very long exposure. Nifty!
Diesel Switchers
Submitted by Kenneth Rickman on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 2:17pm.
For a long time, it was thought best to keep the new and high maintenance diesels in the yard, where they could do less damage if they broke down. Also, it was thought that diesel-electrics were not well siuted to hauling main line fast freight. The EMD (originally EMC) FT demonstrator tour had a lot to do with changing that attitude, by proving that a stock diesel locomotive design could replace steam locomotives in everyday road service all over the country.
Oh yes!
Submitted by Craig Faichney on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 10:07pm.
I'm surprised that all the shunters are diesel/electric. I would've expected that they would've been the last changed, not the first.
Phantom Number
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 03/22/2007 - 1:46pm.
The number 3167 was most likely from an engine. The boxcar numbers would not have been that large, and the font is the same as the other engines.
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