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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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Box Elder County: 1940
August 1940. Box Elder County, Utah. "Farm Security Administration cooperative tractor." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.
No wildfires here
That's an interesting spark arrester on the exhaust stack. I wonder where he got the mesh cloth?
Putative Puzzlement
Tracks offer immensely greater traction and pulling power with much less soil compaction than wheels. I once had a Caterpillar D4 track ride over my foot (just missing the grouser) and suffered more anxiety from it than pain. I was not injured.
Tale of the noses
This looks to me like three generations of one farming family.
Dust and Dirt.
You don't get the sense that the fellow at the controls has operated the tractor; not in those clothes.
Is a puzzlement
I never have been able to understand what the putative advantages of a crawler tractor over a wheel tractor were supposed to be.
[Crawlers don't get stuck in muck. - Dave]
TracTracTor
That slick little crawler is a kerosene-fueled 4 cylinder McCormick-Deering T20, one of about 15,000 produced between 1932 and 1939. The guy with the banged-up thumb, sitting on the fuel tank, is hiding the "TracTracTor" logo. Read more here: http://tractors.wikia.com/wiki/McCormick-Deering_T-20
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