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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.
CPKC's Duluth based job JS12 with a lone GP20C-ECO is seen spotting boxcars at the Valley Worldwide Logistics warehouse in the Duluth Seaway Port Authority Complex across Helberg Drive from the small former Soo Line yard that CPKC retains on Rices Point that this job and at least one other are based out of.
Historically the Northern Pacific was the dominant railroad in Duluth and they had massive facilities here, though multiple competing Class 1s also served the city which even today is reached by four of the remaining six mega systems. In addition to Soo and NP, the Omaha Road (CNW), and Great Northern maintained smaller yards here on Rices Point which had connections to Superior via the NP's Minnesota and Wisconsin drawbridges as well as the dual rail/road Interstate Bridge.
Rices Point was once laced with a truly astonishing amount of rail infrastructure and though greatly diminished you can still find CPKC and BNSF jobs working the area daily and can catch the UP making a trip over from Superior twice a week.
For a sweeping overview here's a shot of mine of this same job from a visit the year prior: flic.kr/p/2pwy6Z3
Duluth, Minnesota
Sunday September 15, 2024
Providence & Worcester train PR-3 switches the Plastics Group of America transload at Woonsocket, RI.
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.
NS #7102 and #5642 make the weekly run to Old Fort to work Auria. My work schedule happened to have me passing through on the way back home and I figured a quick break was in order.
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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.
A working breakfast !
The pandemic has changed our lives in many ways -
Some for the good; some well maybe not.
Alcohol abuse has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the British Liver Trust, which has reported a 500% rise in calls to its helpline since lockdown began in March.
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Madrid, Spain
MADRID SERIES
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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
Those of you who follow my work know I have a thing for shooting freight under wire. Well this past Thursday I got a tip that CSXT Middleboro based daytime local B727 would be making a relatively uncommon move that was long on my wish list to shoot. B727 runs five days per week between Middleboro and Attleboro on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal maintained and dispatched Middleboro Subdivision serving customers and interchanging with the MC along the way.
On Thursdays they normally sneak out on to Amtrak's NEC main at BORO interlockong for a two and half mile shove west down Track 4 to East Junction to work a couple customers on that historic bit of trackage that I've written about in this caption: flic.kr/p/2jck93J
But there is one other customer in the area that every once in a while gets a switch. And on this day after shoving out they reversed direction and ran east a mile to a short twisting lead splitting off just short of Holden interlocking. This lead reaches down into the building of Polyfiber Inc. a subsidiary of Holland Manufacturing makers of industrial packaging, specialty coated and laminated products, water activated tapes and other products.
B726 has run the mile west with three cars trailing three GP40-2s. Just short of Holden they stopped and made two trips down and back on the lead to pull one empty and spot one load before shoving back east through Attleboro station toward East Junction. They are seen here on the rickety s-curve lead track down into the plant that leave main track 4 at MP 198.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday January 14, 2021
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.
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IR 1980 Zürich HB - Basel SBB is scheduled with two Re 4/4 II on working days (Monday to Friday). On June 12, 2020, Re 4/4 II 11141 was seen near Frick (AG).
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.
In response to certain criticism that my photographic interests tend toward the fairer sex, I decided to even the score. While my photos of women may outnumber those of men, let me point out that this man is topless, well perhaps shirtless - which is not something I can say for the women in my photostream.
You should also observe that he is posing. Well, maybe not, but he was holding the board well aware that I was photographing him. His one stipulation was that if I sold the image to Playgirl, he wants a royalty. However I didn't get his name, so if someone from this construction crew reads this, go to my profile page and send me a message.
And yes, my wife knows I photograph good looking guys also.
CP 148 makes a few switch moves while working the Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a main intermediate stop on its route to Bensenville, Illinois. There was just enough light to grab the photo, and I like both the rail graffiti and the headlights streaking down the tops of the rails. I don't often make a stop at University, but the light was favorable to seeing 148 on this particular evening.
While watching this Northern Harrier 'working the hills' late afternoon at Bodega Head it made a turn and passed closely by while I sat in my car camera in hand...what a thrill!
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When I first arrived at "Oura Oura" to take photographs, I wasn't expecting a working party. This group of volunteers - including Bob Brown himself - were planting new trees along the river line of the property. After their lunch break, it was back to work.
Here I capture a group of the party surveying their labours of the morning.
Working late has it rewards. When the sun goes down on the Thai beach, it's time to pack up the sun loungers
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