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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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Brick Work: 1916
Best of Both Worlds
"Beats working in an office all day".
Brickyards of N. Virginia
If there is one thing there is lots of in Northern Virginia, it is clay...and bureaucrats.
Little did they know
Our newspaper print shop still ran a Merganthaler Linotype machine in the early 1970s. It had plenty of open gears and chains on it. A newly-minted OSHA inspector came around one day and ordered us to paint a thick yellow line around the the clanking beast. Said he, "The women may get caught in it." Little did he know that when the Linotype revolutionized printing in the 1880s, the first operators were women.
Watch the fingers please
It never ceases to amaze me how unnecessarily dangerous life use to be.
I wonder how many fingers and worse were lost to unguarded chains and gears.
Speakin' of purty assistants...
"Heck, Clem, your assistant's built like a brick outhouse."
"Shoot, Ezra, my assistant IS a brick outhouse!"
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