permanent injuries—as the detectives with their cameras found him
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Oil-burning locomotive on the Southern Pacific system |
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The steel passenger coach such as has become standard upon the American railroad |
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Electric car, generating its own power by a gasoline engine |
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Both locomotive and train—gasoline motor car designed for branch line service |
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The biggest locomotive in the world: built by the Santa Fe Railroad at its Topeka shops |
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The conductor is a high type of railroad employee |
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The engineer—oil-can in hand—is forever fussing at his machine |
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Railroad responsibility does not end even with the track walker |
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The fireman has a hard job and a steady one |
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How the real timetable of the division looks—the one used in headquarters |
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The electro-pneumatic signal-box in the control tower of a modern terminal |
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The responsible men who stand at the switch-tower of a modern terminal: a large tower of the “manual” type |
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“When winter comes upon the lines the superintendent will have full use for every one of his wits” |
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Watchful signals guarding the main line of a busy railroad |
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“When the train comes to a water station the fireman gets out and fills the tank” |
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A freight-crew and its “hack” |
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A view through the span of a modern truss bridge gives an idea of its strength and solidity |
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The New York Central is adopting the new form of “Upper quadrant” signal |
249 |
The wrecking train ready to start out from the yard |
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“Two of these great cranes can grab a wounded Mogul locomotive and put her out of the way” |
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“The shop-men form no mean brigade in this industrial army of America” |
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“Winter days when the wind-blown snow forms mountains upon the tracks” |
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“The despatcher may have come from some lonely country station” |
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“The superintendent is not above getting out and bossing the wrecking-gang once in a great while” |
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The New York Central Railroad is building a new Grand Central Station in New York City, for itself and its tenant, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad |
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The concourse of the new Grand Central Station, New York, will be one of the largest rooms in the world |
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South Station, Boston, is the busiest railroad terminal in the world |
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