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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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Baggage Express: 1917
February 1917. "Union Transfer Company truck, German Embassy." The scene at the embassy in Washington after Woodrow Wilson ended diplomatic relations with Germany, two months before the United States made its declaration of war. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
More CT Electrics
It seems to have taken at least two express companies to do the job. The Union Transfer Co. trucks have different cargo bodies than the Adams Express Co. truck does in the earlier embassy picture, but they are still all CT Electric trucks.
Leavin'
But not on that midnight train to Georgia.
Horn vs Horn
#21 has to make do with the old squeeze bulb type while #19 has the state of the art oogah. Not fair.
Heavy stuff
So grateful for the invention of wheeled suitcases.
The price of eggs
The German Embassy is paying the price for getting egg all over their faces following the Zimmermann Telegram fiasco.
Diplomacy: the art of scheming behind someone's back. And we are still engaged in such activities to this day. Perhaps the State Department should make this website required viewing.
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