Nostalgia & History > Monon Workers

Today or tomorrow is the last day you will be able to see photos enlarged by Zoomit.

http://zoom.it

I did a Google search for Railroad Unknown Workers and got a number of photos. One photo on Google was labeled, “Rip Track Crew, Indianapolis Belt Junction Yards, 1932. Can anyone help identify these workers?” I did a search on Trainorders for Indianapolis Belt Junction Yards flynn and for Rip Track Crew flynn and got no results. I was suspicious of this no results because I didn’t think that I would have missed in my previous searches such a nice picture of men on a locomotive. So I did a search on Trainorders of Monon flynn. I found the picture on the posting “Monon Locomotive 516.”

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3124747,3124803#msg-3124803

It turns out that the Google label for the picture is wrong. There were a number of pictures on the website and the correct label is “MeDoel Yard workers pose on steam locomotive. Unknown date.”

Picture 1 is from the website,

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

Picture 1, “MeDoel Yard workers pose on steam locomotive. Unknown date.”

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Picture 2, “Rip Track Crew, Indianapolis Belt Junction Yards, 1932. Can anyone help identify these workers?”

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I thought that the Zoomit enlargement of the picture of the MeDoel Yard workers pose on steam locomotive would be a good.way to end the Zoomit enlargement.

I clicked on http://zoom.it/otQp#full and got another picture altogether. [Click on the webaddress and you can see the picture.] It is sometimes possible to identify a Zoomit enlargement. On the Zoomit picture click on the toogle button, the fourth button on the lower right of the Zoomit picture. Then on the new page on the lower right of the picture click on the red colored writing, View original. Copy the webaddress at the top of this page, http://www.monon.org/workers/MononShopGang-cassman.jpg , and paste the webaddress in a Google search. You will get a number of websites. Click on one of the websites and if you are lucky it is the website from which the picture was taken.

Picture 3 is from the website,

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

Picture 3, “This photo of Monon workers was submitted by Gene Cassman, from his father's collection. Gene is not sure who took the original photo. Exact date is unknown. Gene Cassman Collection.”

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Picture 4 is from the website,

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20110416/COLUMNS/110419863

The following is an excerpt from the website,

“Ever since I started visiting Colorado on ski trips, I was fascinated by its history as well as the scenery. It was a bit tricky getting to Summit County in the early days, but the opening of the Eisenhower Tunnel in 1973 made it a whole lot easier. It was six more years until they opened what is now the eastbound pair of lanes. Note that the second I-70 tunnel bore was started right away, because the first tunnel was not enough to handle the traffic. This bit of history makes one think about the grand plans to expand the I-70 Corridor with even more lanes and supposedly a rail route sitting (or hanging) next to (or over) the highway. The publication of the final I-70 Mountain Corridor PEIS provided little information on how this rail route could actually be built, but the rail concept sure seemed more interesting than the actual highway expansion. A few weeks ago, my wife and I attended a fascinating discussion at CMC entitled "Pioneers on Planks"; a presentation on the history of our four ski areas in Summit County. We had a chance to meet and talk history with the likes of Bill Bergman who, with Max and Edna Dercum and others, founded Keystone. This forum reminded me of the way life was in those early days before things really took off. I could almost imagine what life was like even further back in the early days when Summit County's residents and visitors came here on a narrow gauge railroad. It occurred to me that perhaps there is a way to develop a sort of modern-day, narrow gauge railroad between points east and west of the Divide.” Continued on website.

Picture 4, “Special to the Daily/Denver Public Library Western History Collection One of the engines of the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad making its way over Boreas Pass.”

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For a Zoomit enlargement of picture 4 click on http://zoom.it/HQ1c#full . Continue to click on the + button in the lower right of the picture until the enlarging stops. Use the cursor and the left mouse button to move the picture.

Below are the web addresses of ten Zoomit enlargements from my previous postings that I found in my Favorites file. The photos are not identified. If you want the website you might try the method outlined in the text to picture 3 above.

http://zoom.it/6hRt#full

http://zoom.it/b2hS

http://zoom.it/DIYU#full

http://zoom.it/GAR1#full

http://zoom.it/HxRO2#full

http://zoom.it/kiKN#full

http://zoom.it/KUaA

http://zoom.it/NwPe#full

http://zoom.it/QOM5#full

http://zoom.it/VqmYv

One minor correction--it's "McDoel Yard." not "MeDoel" The yard was in Bloomington, IN.

Thanks DrLoco for the correction. Flynn.