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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- 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
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Hull-Rust-Mahoning: 1941
August 1941. "Hull-Rust-Mahoning, world's largest open pit iron mine, near Hibbing, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
Track laying
I like the sections of Snap-Track sitting there, waiting to be added to the layout!
Interesting to contrast this photo with the "Moving Tracks" one today, in which the usual sleepers appear to be substituted with dirt berms.
Blowin' in the Wind
Somewhere nearby, the infant Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is starting down the road to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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