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A Wheeling 732 with 3 engines and over 100 stone loads is working hard as they come into Sycamore, OH on a beautiful November day. 11/5/2023
On the hunt for trains southwest of Mankato, the classic three point of light was spotted down the tracks west of Lake Crystal. Two GP40 variants, UP 1360 and UP 1474, pause from their work at POET Biorefining. POET processes corn into ethanol and livestock feed.
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Paddy taking a break from the heat
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An Excellent photograph taken by the late Alfred Palmer in 1942 that depicted the role that many women took on by working at our military defense plants during WWII. Their significant contribution, combined with our brave military forces and allies eventually led to the success of defeating the Axis powers. I took this image off the Internet and thought it was worth sharing once more, and highlighting the role that so many women played during that period. In this particular photo, the woman is taking a well earned coffee break, and doing so sitting next to a piece of some plane fuselage, possibly a C-47 military transport. Many of these women earned the moniker of "Rosey the Riveter"
And I think I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the unseen Grandma's, and their contributions. Many of these young women workers had children, and who watched those kids when mom went off to work at the defense plant, none other than Grandma! The unseen, and often unmentioned heroes for their contribution to the whole!
During World War II, Douglas joined the BVD (Boeing-Vega-Douglas) consortium to produce the B-17 Flying Fortress. After the war, Douglas built another Boeing design under license, the B-47 Stratojet turbojet-powered bomber, using a government-owned factory in Marietta, Georgia.
World War II was a major boost for Douglas. Douglas ranked fifth among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. The company produced almost 30,000 aircraft from 1942 to 1945, and its workforce swelled to 160,000. The company produced a number of aircraft including the C-47 Skytrain, the DB-7 (known as the A-20, Havoc or Boston), the SBD Dauntless dive bomber, and the A-26 Invader.
The Photographer:
As a young man, Palmer traveled around the world as the official photographer on several different cruise lines. When he returned to America, Palmer set out across America documenting everything that captured his interest. Around this time, he was chosen to head the photography department of President Roosevelt's Office of Emergency Management (OEM). Their goal was to rally and inform citizens about the use of their tax dollars via vividly captured photo stories. Palmer developed his gritty style on these assignments, capturing the geometry of mechanical form with the emotional range of men and women at work.
This eventually led him to the Office of War Information and later the Farm Security Administration. Palmer’s emphasis was on the typical American hard at work on the home front. His photographs were also an integral part of the campaign to change the public attitude toward women joining the work force. He showed women as patriotic, glamorous, and capable, working on fighter planes as well as assembly lines. Palmer also focused on the dedication and dignity of the black labor force and worked with the chief of the News Bureau Negro Press.
Palmer’s belief in promoting the strength of the people permeated his entire career. His works were praised for their symbolic power, conveying the courage and determination that Roosevelt sought to arouse in the nation. Alfred Palmer passed away in 1993, leaving a legacy of photographic work.
Providence & Worcester train WONR makes a pickup at the siding near Polar Beverages in Worcester Yard before heading south towards Putnam to swap cars with the NRWO crew. This days power was two B39-s and a GP38-2 all wearing proper paint. I still find it fascinating it now takes two crews to move this train the 40 miles between Worcester and Plainfield.
An Alaska Railroad crew is working Whittier yard with a pair of SD70MACs getting ready to double up a big 120N freight of mixed manifest and intermodal traffic off the AML barge up from Seattle that they will take north to Anchorage a little later.
Whittier is the ARRC's main port for interchange of both containers and railcars which arrive via the weekly AML barge from Seattle. The containers are stacked on racks two or three high above the main barge deck which contains 8 tracks for interchange of railcars to and from the BNSF & UP. The concrete structure rising beyond is the long abandoned Buckner Building, once the largest building in Alaska. And the single track at left and the tent structure beside it is the ARR's passenger 'station' which mostly serves passengers walking directly across the street to and from waiting cruise ships.
If you'd like to read a bit more about the history of Whittier and this fascinating structure check out these links:
www.alaskarails.org/historical2/whittier-history/index.html
www.army.mil/article/193996/discovering_wartime_whittier
www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/abandoned-buckner-building...
www.adn.com/features/article/shadow-abandoned-buckner-bui...
www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alas...
Whittier, Alaska
Wednesday June 21, 2017
C&BL 104 shoves three cars of steel wire into the warehouse at Johnstown Wire Technologies, completing another successful delivery to the railroads most important customer.
A working breakfast !
The pandemic has changed our lives in many ways -
Some for the good; some well maybe not.
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“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
George Lorimer
Standing in for the regular class 70, Colas 56090 is seen working 6A86 05:20 Barassie to Aberdeen Waterloo powers away from Arbroath
So cool to see my friends working so well together. I also liked the flying sparks of course. Sylvie (the cat) and I watched them work from behind the tree.
the tactor working the field producing the dusty residue as it truddles along. I tried to get closer to use a shorter lens, however the was not possible.
I love wisteria and we are lucky enough to have quite a lot of it in our garden. That being said, this was actually taken somewhere else
After working the yard at Waynesboro 15T charges out of town and past the signals that mark the south end of a controlled siding known as Waynetex. The top of the distant Blue Ridge is shadowed by clouds. To the left can be seen a sliver of the large DuPont plant, now Invista and owned by Koch Industries, and the associated Benger Laboratory where spandex was invented (under the brand name Lycra). In addition a large textile mill called Wayn-Tex, later owned by Mohawk Industries. I believe carpet rolls were once made at the Wayn-Tex plant. I am not sure what all goes on here now, but much like other places it is only a shadow of what it once was.
Day 1 of the Great Britain Tour XII saw 6233 Duchess of Sutherland in action working from Paddington to Plymouth running as 1Z20 and looking quite superb along the sea wall at Dawlish.
The power of a westbound Conrail train has just uncoupled from its train to make a pickup in Reading, Pennsylvania. Six month old C40-8W 6062 still serves NS today as its 8321. I personally think it looked much better in blue.
MNNR's Hiawatha Job works the Mill-intense Hiawatha Corridor, among the silos and hoppers that line this industrial right of way. One of their B-Boats smokes it up as they lug a bunch of cars beneath puffy blue and white skies.
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera left. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. AB800 with gridded 7 inch reflector for rim. Triggered by Cybersync.
Sometimes days are gloomy and you have to do that pesky work, but it's nicer in a cozy chair with a beautiful view, promising a pleasant evening approaching...
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Well I've been on a WC kick this week so why not continue that into Thirty Thursday with a couple more WC shots. The WC started up with a fleet of 17 ex SOO 30's along with other varied units. Most of the Ex SOO's were laid up in the first few years but then WC added three ex CNW 30's when the GBW/FRVR purchase was made. These three added to the 5 ex SOO's that were retained made for a nice little fleet of 30's that lasted as long or nearly as long as the WC. This is job LO-42 at Newberry with 820 and 584 on April 23. 1995. That's the "Hospital Branch" curving off to the left where most of the rail shippers in the Newberry area are located.
Y197's pair of Geeps back a TBOX through the dirt lot behind Columbian Logistics' warehouse in the old Grand Rapids City Market district.
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“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
― Andrew Carnegie
Freightliner Class 66 diesel locomotive 66597 "Viridor" passes through Water Orton station working 4O90 06.15 Leeds Freightliner Terminal to Southampton Maritime Container Terminal
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At the highest point reached by rail in the state of Connecticut Pan Local PL-1 reaches into the Firestone Building Products Yard at the end of track at the top of the Terryville Loop Track to pull a string of empty tank cars. This customer operates out of a portion of the huge 1.2 million square ft former General Motors New Departures ball bearing plant that was in operation from 1969 to 1995 and to this day remains the largest industrial building under one roof in all of the six New England states.
To learn more about this branch and Pan Am's Connecticut lines check out the long form captions with these earlier posts:
Bristol, Connecticut
Thursday March 5, 2021