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- Rock Island Line
- Warning Light
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- The Pedant In Me
- I had to look up what a PCC was
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- 1935 — GM Introduces the Turret Top
- The tires still look pretty good.
- Where's Nitti?
- Links
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- The Car
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- 1970?
- Maybe just me ...
- High
- Robert Bellarmine Gant, Sr. (1939-2011)
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- Site "C"-ing
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Boilermakers: 1942
December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Boiler makers inside the firebox of a locomotive on which they have been working in the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and North Western Railroad." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Dangerous Job
My father worked in the railyards back in the Thirties. He used to say that a lot of the guys working in the boilers were gone by the 1950s. Asbestos got them, he'd say. Who knew?
Re: BOILER UP!
My dad was also Purdue, Class of '32 (delayed due to WWI).
A few years later worked for Baldwin as a delivery agent, deadheading in the cab as new locos were rolled out to customers.
Pretty amazing Century, over all!
BOILER UP!
Thank you, Dave.
Zebra Man
Purdue University
Class of '88
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