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Steam & Excursion > Feminine Crossing Protection With SteamDate: 02/21/21 09:45 Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: MacBeau John Vachon, while in Beaumont, Texas shooting for the FSA recorded this interesting structure and its female operator. The date on the images reads May 1943. Getting up and down in a dress must have taken some skill. Sorry for the small images but that was all that was available.
Be of good cheer, —Mac www.lowellamrine.com    Date: 02/21/21 12:52 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: tomstp Somebody should have told her to stand in the street.
Date: 02/21/21 13:16 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: PHall tomstp Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Somebody should have told her to stand in the > street. Well considering the controls to the crossing gates she controls are up there in the tower, why would she stand in the street? Date: 02/21/21 14:59 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: tomstp Looks to me her "controls" are a hand held stop sign.
Date: 02/21/21 15:43 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: wcamp1472 I'm speculating here:
There might be more than one crossing being controlled from that tower. Thats a decent-sized signal cabinet under the upstairs room...also seems like a multi+crossing, city-like environment... She could be just posing, with the sign, for the photog. W. Date: 02/21/21 15:49 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: MojaveBill Women worked in the Mojave (and many other) roundhouses during the War.
Bill Deaver Tehachapi, CA Date: 02/21/21 16:07 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: MacBeau One of the images showed three lights on a track map, so that could be correct.
—Mac wcamp1472 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm speculating here: > There might be more than one crossing being > controlled from that tower. > Thats a decent-sized signal cabinet under the > upstairs room...also seems like > a multi+crossing, city-like environment... > > She could be just posing, with the sign, for the > photog. > > W. Date: 02/21/21 17:56 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: EMD2024 I wasn't sure I wanted to open this post. That title is needing some help.
MWPerkins Posted from Android Date: 02/21/21 18:33 Re: Feminine Crossing Protection With Steam Author: wcamp1472 Don't be wary about negative gender implications...in most TO posts.
Our most daring dialogs are over whether locos are referred to as 'he"s and "she"s ..... not much more 'sexy' than that... The offensive stuff is tossed quickly...and not relevant to our more expansive interests. W. ( I was gonna use "broader interests".... but, I chose a more appropriate wording... Realizing that there's lots of cynics on our 'boards', who'd jump all over any wording related & conflated with possible 'dicey' puns..). |