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C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad]; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

A train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill.

Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

WWII color photographs. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs from the Library of Congress. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.

Some of the superb engines that drove the cars in 1930s and 1940s.

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chicago and north western railway company world war railroad locomotives railroad construction and maintenance railroad shops and yards illinois melrose park transparencies color locomotive roundhouse proviso yard nw rr chicago american workers in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome railroad united states history industrial history library of congress
date_range

Date

01/01/1939
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Contributors

Delano, Jack, photographer
collections

in collections

American Workers in Color

WWII color photographs.

Age of Streamliners

The Most Beautiful Trains Ever Designed
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Location

Melrose Park ,  41.90059, -87.85673
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on publication.

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Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, 40th Street locomotive shops

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

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background

Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street shop of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill

General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill

C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hump. A brakeman rides each train to signal the engineer in the locomotive at the rear; Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill

Marine Sgt. at New Orleans, La.

Yardmaster at one of the classification yards at Proviso yard, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad

Tradesmen from Bulley and Andrews Construction, the

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chicago and north western railway company world war railroad locomotives railroad construction and maintenance railroad shops and yards illinois melrose park transparencies color locomotive roundhouse proviso yard nw rr chicago american workers in color economic and social conditions workers worker kodachrome railroad united states history industrial history library of congress