John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill.
General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.
General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill.
Rock River Bridge near Nelson, Ill.
[Passenger terminal, Chicago and Northwestern Ry.]
Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill.
The Devastation of Railroad Equipment, Cars, and Locomotives during Railroad Riots
World's Fair, railroad pageant locomotives. Locomotive II, from front
World's Fair, railroad pageant locomotives. Locomotive II, close-up from back
Tankers. Tankers left Gulf points for the Eastern seaboard at the rate of one every eighty minutes. Loading dock hoses like these serve a fleet of 300 vessels. An average tanker carries as much oil as 280 railroad tank cars, requiring four trains, four locomotives. Ships could haul oil for one cent a barrel as against necessary railroad rates of four cents. Low marine rates left no incentive for railroads or pipelines to equip themselves for transporting Eastern petroleum requirements
Elmira Holding and Reconsignment Point, Elmira, New York. View through warehouses, locomotives in foreground
World's Fair. Historic locomotives at Railroad Exhibit
World's Fair, railroad pageant. Final curtain, locomotives
Arrival of McKinley's funeral train at Canton, Ohio /
[3 Northern Pacific locomotives in train plowing snow from tracks]
An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif.
Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service worker in the Assembly and Repair Department
The Faro Caudill [family] eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico
Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood [i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach], Calif.
Lowering an engine in place in assembling a C-87 transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.