Nostalgia & History > Railroad Workers 4

The pictures in this posting are from the Digital Public Library of America. 
 
https://dp.la/ 
 
Picture 1, Title: Workers with wrecking crane for the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, 1908.  Photographer  Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948.  Date  1908.  Notes Construction photographs of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway along the Copper River from 1906-1911.  Caption on image: E.A. Hegg 256. Wrecking crane. Copper River Railway.  [I tried to improve and enlarge the men in the picture without success.] 
 

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Picture 2, Title: Laying railroad tracks on Main St.  Description: Installing cross ties and rails for the trolly tracks and installing bricks on Main St in McGraw, NY.  Creator unknown.  Subject: TGM Clothing & dress, Concrete mixers, Construction equipment, Railroad construction workers, Railroad rails.  Location: McGraw - Cortland County - New York.  Date of Original 1910 -1920.  Physical Description Postcard: sepia ; 3.5 X 5.5 in. (9 x 14 cm.).  Holding Institution McGraw Historical Society. 
 
Picture 3, Picture 2 with Auto Correct applied. 
 

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Picture 4, Picture 2 with Auto Correct applied, enlarged, left. 
 
Picture 5, Picture 2 with Auto Correct applied, enlarged, right.  
 

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Picture 6, Title: Denver & Rio Grande R.R.  Creation Date:  2008-09-05.  Publisher:  Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.  Description: Denver & Rio Grande R.R. Western section gang.  Format:  print photograph, 4.3 inches x 3.0 inches.  Digital Collection: Peoples of Utah.  University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library.    
 

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=12ptPicture 7, picture 6 enlarged, left.=12pt =12ptPicture 8, picture 6 enlarged, middle.=12pt =12ptPicture 9, picture 6 enlarged, right.

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Picture 10, Title: Railroad Miscellany P.21.  Creator: Shipler Commercial Photographers.  Contributor: Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.  Creation Date:  1912-05-29.  Description:  Oriental man with a wheelbarrow, May 29, 1912. Shipler Comm. Photog. #13408. 
 

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Amazing.  A couple of those guys in that last enlargment are actually smiling!

Picture 11, Title: Sanpete Valley Railroad P.2.  Creator: Anderson, George Edward, 1860-1928.  Contributor: Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.  Description:  Sanpete Valley Railroad employees. George Edward Anderson photo.  
 

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Picture 12, Contributing Organization: Iron Range Research Center.  Title: Mining laborers, Hibbing, Minnesota.  Description: Several mining workers on a railroad.  Date Created: 1900 - 1914.
 

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The Chaffee County Times has an article on its website, "Buena Vista Heritage Museum offers Dinner in the Dining Car."
 
http://www.chaffeecountytimes.com/free_content/buena-vista-heritage-museum-offers-dinner-in-the-dining-car/article_2e3c39cc-bc61-11e8-b520-db19c34b369d.html 
 
"The fundraising dinner, catered by the Liars Lodge, will serve meals made from actual dining car recipes during the heyday of American rail travel.  The recipes come from 'Dinner in the Diner' by Will Hollister, BV Heritage president Vic Kuklin said. While the meal will actually be served in the upstairs courtroom of the Heritage Museum, the dinner’s guest speaker, longtime Central Colorado historian Mel McFarland will keep the evening suffused with passenger car history.  McFarland, a native of Colorado Springs, wrote 'The Midland Route' about the Colorado Midland Railway, which passed through Buena Vista on its way from the Springs to Grand Junction." 
 
There is more information on the website. 
 

I always enjoy your historical crew photos, Flynn.  Good group this time.

nycman Wrote:
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> I always enjoy your historical crew photos,
> Flynn.  Good group this time.

Same here for me Flynn!  Every time I see these gangs posing, I can't help but think of the sweat dripping under that wool or other material that absorbed the moisture to help cool them...and then the aroma that they all dealt.  At that time, like is said today, "It is what it is!"  Bet that bath at the end of day was the most refreshing moment, only to start the same scene tomorrow morning and months afterwards.

Flynn, keep sending what you find of the days of true, hard work that most the millennials of today would never endure.  Times and technology does change in each era, but not always for the better socially.

Flynn,
The second thru 5th pic. is not of laying brick but they are pouring concrete. Maybe that will be the second layer under the brick that they might lay down later. upkpfan