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- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
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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?
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Hammerjacks: 1905
Vermont circa 1905. "Steam drills, Rutland R.R." Ppppplease pppppardon the nnnnoise. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Air Hammer
It's really been around for quite a while, and as I recall a pretty neat sound when I was a kid. Except if you were the operator!
Drill Ye Tarriers
In third grade my elementary school taught us to sing the song "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill" as part of the grade's history curriculum.
"Every morning at seven o'clock
There's twenty tarriers a workin at the rock
The boss comes along and he says, "Keep still
And come down heavy on the cast iron drill."
They never explained anything about the cast iron drill.
I now know what it looked like and that it ran on steam thanks to Shorpy.
Rutland,VT
The need for railroad connections was necessary to transport the huge
amount of marble quarried there. I believe Rutland was once Mill City.
What?
What all of them will be saying in a few years after not using ear protection!
Drilling - what?
Ant ideas what all these drillers are trying to accomplish? Looks like nothing but a muddy field!
[They're making a rock cut where the track is being laid. - Dave]
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