... 1943. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. The engine crew, engineer and ... were the different rings, for example "HB Tower:2 short; A Yard:1 long,3 short; HX Tower:1 long, to which a wiseguy added, "...and one ...
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Still there; now part of BNSF Argentine Yard is still in Kansas City, Kansas. Today it is part of the Burlington ... of the smokestacks visible between the oil tanks and the railroadyard seem to have survived. The large warehouse on the east side of ...
... A general view of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail yard." Photo by JackDelano, Office of War Information. View full size.
... wonders about vertical clearances on the Santa Fe Railroad. Especially on the main lines, they were so generous that some tall ...
... roundhouse at the Chicago & North Western RR's Proviso Yard." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by JackDelano for the Office of War ... the pits are still 1940's era. We now service Long Island Railroad diesel engines. In the photo subject's day, the majority of the oil ...
... 1943. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. Getting his waybills, Conductor ... Island Chances are good the location is the Blue Island yard office. The rolled paper looks like stored train lists that came over ...
... Illinois. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. The Chicago & North Western Railroadyard." Photo by JackDelano, Office of War Information. View full size.
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... his locomotive out of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroadyard." Medium-format negative by JackDelano, Office of War Information. View full size.
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... Giant diesel-electric locomotive at Illinois Central rail yard." The safety message comes to us courtesy of Engine 9205A. Photo by Jack ... cow/calf lash-ups never became a common sight in American railroad yards.
EMD TR Evidently with a B unit attached. It's a ...
... 1943. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. Locomotive coupled to ... of the whistle will let the crew and everyone else in the yard that she is about to make a reverse movement.
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December 1942. Proviso classification yard of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by JackDelano.
Footsteps Galore Just an incredible amount of footsteps in ...
... entering town along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman." Photo by JackDelano for the Office of ... of those old girls rotting away in the Union Pacific
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Very Similar To 103 Very similar locomotive to ...
... worker at the Chicago & North Western's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad." Paint your wagon, or color-coordinate your caboose. Kodachrome transparency by JackDelano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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... 1943. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. The train pulls out of the Chicago & North Western yard." Photo by JackDelano, Office of War Information. View full size.
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March 1943. Barstow, California. "Railroad worker in the washroom of the reading room in the Santa Fe yard." Medium-format negative by JackDelano for the Office of War Information. ...
... plant at the end This photo, taken in the Santa Fe "B Yard" in San Bernardino Yard in 1973, shows the facility at the very end of the ... units which replaced the ice cooled reefers. Now, most railroad mechanical refrigerator cars have been retrofitted with the same style ...
... 1943. Chicago, Illinois. "Chicago & North Western RR railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at the Proviso Yard." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by JackDelano for the ...
November 1942. "Illinois Central rail yard, Chicago. Locomotives in for repair at the roundhouse." Medium format negative by JackDelano. View full size.
You can corner her here This is not the ... is a 4-8-2, commonly known as a "Mountain" type. The railroad had 136 locos of this type, built by ALCo, Lima and the IC's own ...
... car as the train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico, waits on a siding." ... 20, I repacked journal boxes on the wash track at the UP yard in LA. It was dirty work. I always ended up soaked in oil. The packing had ...
... General view of one of the Chicago and North Western railroad yards at Chicago. December 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome ... To the left it heads south to Bellwood. North of this yard (check out how big it still is today on Google Maps satellite view!) is ...
... track at the Chicago & North Western RR Proviso Yard." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by JackDelano for the ... of War Information.
No Graffiti! In all of the railroad pictures I have seen taken before 1990, I am pleased that graffiti ...
... California. A view of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe yard at night." Medium-format negative by JackDelano. View full size.
... examples of a locomotive type which was named after the railroad. They descend from the 2-10-0 "Decapod" type, to which the Santa Fe ...
... An important ancillary building once found in nearly every yard, but now less common, was the scale house.
Most cars containing bulk ... to determine the weight for transportation charges by the railroad, and often for the charges the shipper would bill their customer for ...
... Illinois. These pneumatic tubes in the Illinois Central Railroad yardmaster's office connect him with the general office." ... the late 70s, just as the caption says: connecting several yard offices with the central office. I have to wonder if Milwaukee officials ...
... 1943. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. The train passes many ... them for any special messages." Medium-format negative by JackDelano, Office of War Information. View full size.
Wooden Dodo ... Island is still a manual interlocking, as is 3) Gibson Yard west end tower. At one point most, if not all, of these towers were ...