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The building in this shot was used for building and maintaining the East Broad Top's freight and passenger cars. Inside it's walls, workers of this narrow gauge railroad built over 500 wooden cars and some 300 steel cars. The car shop currently stores a variety of the railroad's passenger and freight cars. It will surely see lots more action and TLC as it was announced in February of 2020 that they are working to re-open this little gem of Pennsylvania.
HO Scale model of the Toronto Railway Museum's Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo Railway caboose. Built from a Walthers Wood Caboose using a variety of custom parts and Aberdeen Carshops Decals.
CSX GE ES44AH diesel electric locomotive # 738, is seen with a crew member entering the cab while in the yard spotted near the car shop building at Erwin, Tennessee, April 9, 2009. The locomotive has steerable trucks. At this time the Erwin Yard was a very busy location with numerous unit coal trains arriving and departing the yard along with a few manifest freight trains. The yard is now closed down due to the reduction in coal train service. The mini van located to the right was used to bring train crew members to their assigned trains.
"We found wonderland. You and I got lost in it. We pretended it could last forever."
This was a sad day. The shop I go to in Seattle, CRZ Motorsports (Carrozzeria), is closing down because of the owner's personal matter. I went down to install my Status seats while the shop was already empty. However, the base mounts for my car needed some custom work, we didn't end up putting them on. The last car that ever been to CRZ failed to get the work done...
We sat in my Status seats for the whole day waiting for nothing. It was hard to describe my feeling. I felt like I lost a big part of my life. CRZ was the place I go when I was in Seattle, leaded me to lots of amazing friends, made me feel like home in the Pacific North West. Never thought this would come so fast...
"We found wonderland. You and I got lost in it. We pretended it could last forever."
This was a sad day. The shop I go to in Seattle, CRZ Motorsports (Carrozzeria), is closing down because of the owner's personal matter. I went down to install my Status seats while the shop was already empty. However, the base mounts for my car needed some custom work, we didn't end up putting them on. The last car that ever been to CRZ failed to get the work done...
We sat in my Status seats for the whole day waiting for nothing. It was hard to describe my feeling. I felt like I lost a big part of my life. CRZ was the place I go when I was in Seattle, leaded me to lots of amazing friends, made me feel like home in the Pacific North West. Never thought this would come so fast...
The abandoned car shop at the railroad yards in Maybrook, NY taken about 1973 by my dad with his box camera.
Thirteen miles south of Chicago stands the town of Pullman, an excellent example of what was intended to be an industrial utopia. Observing the pitiful living conditions of the modern workman, railroad tycoon George Pullman purchased 4,500 acres of land on Lake Calumet. When "Pullman Town" opened in 1881, it offered quality housing for workers at more affordable prices than elsewhere in the city. Small apartments, row houses, and larger homes were available, all with running water and indoor toilets. The gas works, just north of Pullman on this map, lighted the town. There were also shops, schools, public meeting places, theaters, a church, and even a racecourse (but no saloons).
Pullman's idea of a model town was consistent with contemporary visions of both the garden suburb and the industrial paradise. Greenery and natural beauty were central to his plan; the town was noted for its tree-lined streets, its parks and playgrounds (one is marked on the map), and its company-operated greenhouse and nursery. Entirely self-contained, it utilized the land, modern technology, and synergistic interaction between the two. As Almont Lindsey mentions, "in excavating [an artificial lake] the dirt was used to raise the site of the carshops; and in supplying water for the lake the company utilized the overflow of the great Corliss engine which furnished power for the Pullman shops." The bricks used to build the town were produced at the brickyard just to the south, using clay dredged up from Lake Calumet. And the sewage of Pullman fertilized a self-sufficient farm that fed its people. For these reasons and more, the town was hailed as the epitome of a century of urban reform.
It would seem that Pullman sought to combine the comfort and aesthetic characteristics of Lewis Mumford's "Country House" with the regimented, industry-centered "Coketown." The twist was that everything, from garbage collection to community cricket matches, was run by the Pullman Company and its officials. The result was a utopia that was almost totalitarian, the product of a science fiction novelist's imagination. This made some residents uneasy. One exclaimed, "We were born in a Pullman house, fed from a Pullman shop, catechized in the Pullman church, and when we die we shall be buried in the Pullman cemetery and go to a Pullman hell!" In 1894, a financially strained Pullman cut his employees' wages without reducing their rent, prompting a massive labor strike. After a prolonged struggle, the Illinois Supreme Court forced him to sell off Pullman Town. Dangerously tied to the fortune of a single company and the whim of a single industrialist, the "company town" had failed as a model for utopia.
Map:
McNally, Rand. Chicago [map]. 1897. 1:57,000. "Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world street guide map of Chicago". David Rumsey Map Collection. www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/43738q (accessed May 29, 2014).
Other Sources:
Grossman, Ron. "Pullman Village Was No Utopia For Its Working Inhabitants."Chicago Tribune, December 9, 1998. articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-12-09/features/981209013... (accessed May 29, 2014).
Lindsey, Almont. The Pullman strike: the story of a unique experiment and of a great labor upheaval. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
"The Pullman State Historic Site." : The Town of Pullman. www.pullman-museum.org/theTown/ (accessed May 29, 2014).
"The Town of Pullman." Historic Pullman Foundation. www.pullmanil.org/town.htm (accessed May 29, 2014).
SOO's Schiller Park roundhouse is burning in June of 1966. This is the locomotive side and it is gone. The rest of the roundhouse is the car department repair shop.
This shot is not mine as I was helping fight the fire.
MTA PCC 3039 signed for Riverside in a yard in 1959. The slide was processed June 1959, just before service started on the Riverside line. This may be the Everett shops. - from a Kodachrome slide in my collection, photographer unknown
In 1984, the San Bernardino carshops were also scrapping various pieces of rolling stock. The big hook from Winslow was at the east end of the yard on this day, whitelined.
"We found wonderland. You and I got lost in it. We pretended it could last forever."
This was a sad day. The shop I go to in Seattle, CRZ Motorsports (Carrozzeria), is closing down because of the owner's personal matter. I went down to install my Status seats while the shop was already empty. However, the base mounts for my car needed some custom work, we didn't end up putting them on. The last car that ever been to CRZ failed to get the work done...
We sat in my Status seats for the whole day waiting for nothing. It was hard to describe my feeling. I felt like I lost a big part of my life. CRZ was the place I go when I was in Seattle, leaded me to lots of amazing friends, made me feel like home in the Pacific North West. Never thought this would come so fast...
Project [AMIM3] from Carrozzeria Carbon.
Duke Dyamics widebody, ESS Tuning supercharge, IPE exhaust, Aeromotions GT wing, Brembo, KW suspension, Recaro seat, Autopower roll cage, etc.
Edmonton Transit's Cromdale shops in June 1983, not long before DLM opened. Outside are two new U-2's.
Cromdale was originally built as a streetcar carbarn, latter used for trolleybuses as well. Later Cromdale was used as a maintenance shop before conversion to LRT use. While I don't know exactly what it was used for for a number of years, it ceased being used for some sort of recycling operation around 1997-1998ish. After that, it was used to store the ETS Historic Collection and surplus BBC's trolley coaches, before returning to use as an operating satellite garage to Westwood during upgrades there. After that it reverted to storing the historic collection and BBC's and even other vehicles, as well as staging equipment for LRT projects. Unfortunately, due to structural issues the building had to be torn down, however, the yard is used for LRT material storage. A proposal to build a LRV storage facility was proposed, however, a location close to Wayne Gretzky Drive is now favored for that facility.
"We found wonderland. You and I got lost in it. We pretended it could last forever."
This was a sad day. The shop I go to in Seattle, CRZ Motorsports (Carrozzeria), is closing down because of the owner's personal matter. I went down to install my Status seats while the shop was already empty. However, the base mounts for my car needed some custom work, we didn't end up putting them on. The last car that ever been to CRZ failed to get the work done...
We sat in my Status seats for the whole day waiting for nothing. It was hard to describe my feeling. I felt like I lost a big part of my life. CRZ was the place I go when I was in Seattle, leaded me to lots of amazing friends, made me feel like home in the Pacific North West. Never thought this would come so fast...
Classic Ford parts store in Old Town Orange
Scott Kelby Wordlwide Photo Walk 2016 - Historic Downtown Orange, CA