Nostalgia & History > Railroad Brakeman

I did a Google image search for Railroad Brakeman and obtained a number of interesting pictures. Two of the pictures were of train crews standing next to a steam engine. In one of the pictures some of the men of the crew were named. Perhaps someday in the future massive computers can find from the Census and other sources find biographical for these named men. Maybe these computers can use facial recognition programs and find other pictures for these men. Maybe these computers can take a picture in which the crew members are not identified and use a facial recognition program to find a picture in which one or more of the crew members is or are identified.

Picture 1 is from the website,

http://www.monon.org/worker.html

Picture 1, “Steam #57 crew poses at Cataract 1906.”

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I can no longer use Zoomit to enlarge pictures.

http://zoom.it

One thing that Zoomit did besides enlarging a picture was to assign the picture a URL number so that I could post the URL on trainorders and the readers could click on the URL and go to a new page to see the very large picture. I am trying to find a way to assign URL numbers to very large pictures.

Picture 2 is from the website,

http://www.lvrr.com/employee-pictures-2

Picture 2, “Lehigh Valley Railroad Employee Pictures.”

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Picture 2 has a URL, http://www.lvrr.com/wp-content/gallery/Employee%20Pictures/lv-3147.jpg . Click on the URL to go to the picture. If you click on the picture you may be able to get a still larger picture.

The Glenwood Post Independent newspaper this morning has an article, “Rail documentarian to speak at Glenwood depot.”

http://www.postindependent.com/news/12846241-113/depot-documentarian-glenwood-rail

Unfortunately the article has not yet been added to the website. Maybe the paper will realize its error later today the article.

The Glenwood Post Independent newspaper this morning has an article, “Christo’s curtain: Short-lived but a lasting impact.” The article has a picture showing the wind torn Curtin at Rifle Gap and discusses the Curtin’s construction and destruction. “In just 28 hours after the Valley Curtain was unveiled, winds believed to be at about 60 miles an hour took the Valley Curtain down.”

http://www.postindependent.com/news/12839938-113/curtain-christo-valley-rifle



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/02/14 08:32 by flynn.