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Clovis, New Mexico. One of the giant 5000 Class engines coming out of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse for a run to Vaughn, New Mexico

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Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1943
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Delano, Jack, photographer
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Nashville, Tennessee. Women operation a giant stamping machine. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Headed for last cleanup. Six giant truck tires, of the non-directional type are being wheeled in for cleaning and painting. This pattern, developed for the U.S. Army in 1941 is used for field equipment....gives excellent traction in forward or reverse because of the horizontal cleats, yet rides well on the highway on the continuous center rib. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Dawn, Texas. Crossing Texas wheat country along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas and Clovis, New Mexico

Clovis, New Mexico. Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard to clean out the potash cars. Mrs. Caldwell's husband works in the roundhouse and her son is in the Army

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Airplanes - Types - Types of aeroplanes. Giant Plane. International Film Service

Isleta, New Mexico. Engineer of a passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad picking up a message passed to him by the agent, by hand. This diesel train called the "Doodle Bug" makes all local stops

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & Spring Streets, Aurora, Kane County, IL

Willard, New Mexico. Stopping for water along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Vaughn and Belen, New Mexico

Giant hippopotamus. New York Sterecope Card.

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Vaughn Chevrolet Building, 101-109 East Main Street, Monongahela, Washington County, PA

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