Nuts and Bolts by woodybobbin on Flickr.
….and rivets. Lots of rivets.
July 1966
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Images and stories of the people of railroading. Look elsewhere for locomotives--I am interested in railroaders doing their jobs. Although I do make an exception for passenger trains. In the snow. Pulled by steam engines.
Nuts and Bolts by woodybobbin on Flickr.
….and rivets. Lots of rivets.
July 1966
Director’s room, Pennsylvania Railroad, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
A car being jacked up for repairs on the Illinois Central repair tracks in Chicago, Illinois. The original image dated to circa November, 1942 by Jack Delano.
Pulling Spikes, 1920s
New coupler by Moffat Road on Flickr.
After installing new draft gear in the front of UPY 697, two machinists carefully insert a new coupler in place at Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility in K.C., Missouri, on October 21, 2013.
Engineer and Conductor compare watches before leaving Kent, Ohio Terminal.