... and eventually a small shelter quickly followed. Some railroads, for clearance and other reasons, favored a "bay-window" on either ... Pennsylvania (The Standard of The World) and several other railroads put rear-facing "doghouses" on locomotive tenders as kind of a cupola ...
... have been durable.
Wooden Cars By WW-II, most US railroads had figured out the maintenance and strength advantages of steel ... on use of steel and chromium. As a result, the railroads built large numbers of steel framed wood sided cars, designed to be ...
... carried a pair of prime movers on a single long frame. Railroads liked the concept, but the new, bigger and heavier 567 prime mover ... as one with drawbars (A-A, A-B-A or A-B-B-A) allowed the railroads to circumvent this. And on many railroads, these multi-unit sets all ...
... saltwater was drained next to the rails, which is why railroads used to run annual work trains to spray oil on the sides of the ... to tracks at the warehouses and packing plants.
The railroads had massive ice making plants spaced along the line, (100 or so ...
... be doing. Wooden trestles were expensive to maintain and railroads often built them, then buried them with soil to create a more ... speed.
(The Gallery, D.C., D.C. Street Survey, Railroads) ...
... to call it here). Undeniable the influence of American railroads in the design of that loco.
Do we know where this was taken?
... his gear and stop where he saw fit to photograph. Other railroads accommodated Jackson in this way.
Probably a Baldwin I'm not ...
... freight is being handled here! This something that US railroads have discontinued; for decades, they haven't accepted any shipment ... saw?
(The Gallery, Kodachromes, Chicago, Jack Delano, Railroads) ...
... if they are still used. You have to remember that the railroads were there first and the towns built their streets later in most ... frequently there. There are numerous examples of the railroads using city streets, which were added alongside the rights of way. Be ...
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I think it is a control for a switch or a signal. Railroads in times past used a rod set on rollers or bearings (as shown here) ... be seen here .
(The Gallery, John Vachon, Norfolk, Railroads) ...
... figure out some of the abbreviations in the left column as railroads: SFE = Santa Fe, RDG = Reading, PA = Pennsylvania, NYC = New York ... are abbreviations (BELT, PENNA, IHB, IHLOC, CBQ), but of railroads or cities?
20 Years Later ...in 1962, a similarly attired C+O ...
... Company but run as an integral part of trains operated by railroads like the Southern.
Pardon me Boy The guy on the right ... the iconic 1925 Christmas photo!
(The Gallery, D.C., Railroads) ...
... Fast Accurate timekeeping was extremely important to railroads back in the day. Timepieces would be tested once a year, primarily ... alphabetic operation.
Standard time It's because of railroads that we have time zones. Can you imagine trying to arrange a railway ...
... direction. Since then there have been completed electric railroads to practically every city and town of importance in Southern ...
Imagine an LA with ... "completed electric railroads to practically every city and town of importance in Southern ... businesses similar to UPS or FedEx, relying mostly on the railroads for speedy delivery. American Express specialized in services to ...