Los obreros del ferrocarril by Jack Delano

March 1943. Sumnerfield, Texas. Brakeman running back to his train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas, and Clovis, New Mexico, as it is ready to start again, after having waited in a siding. Oficce of war

anuary 1943. Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana.

February 1943. Daniel Senise throwing a switch in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railyard

January 1943. Freight train operations on the Chicago & North Western Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa

November 1942. Chicago, Illinois. Engine taking on coal at an Illinois Central Railroad yard.

April 1943. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the Chicago & North Western roundhouse, giving a giant H class locomotive a bath of live steam at Clinton, Iowa.

December 1942. Melrose Park, Ill. L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the Proviso Yard roundhouse, Chicago & North Western R.R.

April 1943. Clinton, Iowa. Chicago & North Western Railroad Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse.

Chicago, April 1943. Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks of the Proviso Yard, Chicago & North Western R.R.

April 1943. Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Chicago & North Western R.R

April 1943. Chicago & North Western R.R. -- Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa

April 1943. Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the Chicago & North Western R.R. roundhouse at Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savanna, Illinois, ordnance plant.

December 1942. A young worker at the Chicago & North Western 40th Street shops

May 1943. Clinton, Iowa. Women wipers of the Chicago & North Western Railroad going out to work on an engine at the roundhouse.

April 1943. Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse. Chicago & North Western R.R.

December 1942. Chicago, Illinois. Workman grinding out a small part at the Chicago & North Western repair shops.

December 1942. Melrose Park, Illinois. Roy Nelin, a box packer in the Proviso Yard roundhouse of the Chicago & North Western R.R.

May 1943. Melrose Park, Ill. Chicago & North Western towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst at the Proviso Yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump



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