Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Most large shipyards have their own rail systems, with several locomotives and flat cars used for hauling heavy ship parts about the yards. This man operates such a locomotive transporting completed sections from a former freight car plant six miles to the ways where they are assembled into completed ships. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
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Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1941
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
Location
Baltimore (Md.), 39.29028, -76.61222
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain