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- 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
- 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
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Trunk Line: 1941
July 1941. "Logging train. Spalding Junction, Nez Perce County, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
O'l 1618
looks like an oil burner, not much smoke and no coal in the tender.
Name Shaming
The 2-8-2 wheel arrangement for steam locomotives is called a Mikado in reference to an order placed for such locomotives by Japan in 1897. This title was a tough sell during World War II, so it was renamed MacArthur for the duration.
NP 1618
From the NPRHA website
http://www.nprha.org/NP%20Locomotive%20Card%20Scans/1618.pdf
Built March 1907
Scrapped June 1958
NP Engine 1618
No word on the eventual fate of this particular workhorse but the engine was one of a large series built for Northern Pacific by ALCO (Brooks) in 1904-05. Some of them were still on duty when the last steam engines were finally retired from the roster in 1958.
Patsy & Willie
"Keep your hand upon the throttle and your eyes upon the rail”
-- Life’s Railway to Heaven
... And Some Utility Poles
The first flatcar is loaded with telephone/telegraph poles ready for use. Note the bottoms are dipped -- probably creosote. They look to be about the same size as the poles along the right-of-way, so the might be for the railroad itself.
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