Saturday, August 07, 2010

From Jim Cole #1


IMG_5610, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

While we are on the subject of trains, I spotted this unusual train in the Peru, IN railroad yard. It is living units for railroad workers who are repairing track.

Posted by Buckles at 8/07/2010 05:40:00 AM

4 comments:

Buckles said...

Gandy Dancers!

07 August, 2010 05:41
Anonymous said...

If you look at photographs of the building of the great transcontinental lines, you will find images of big, oversized hotel cars that housed the workers. The railroads always had to provide their own employee housing as where the tracks went there were no pre-existing communities. They sprang up after the tracks went through a territory. This impact of the rails---western settlement---is generally forgotten today.

07 August, 2010 07:59
Chic Silber said...

Norfolk Southern stock has held up

very well during this recession

07 August, 2010 11:54
Chic Silber said...

Recently up in the Northeast

I saw for the 1st time in this

country strings of 5 flats that

haul stacked shipping containers

that share wheel trucks between

the cars that I've only ever seen

before in foreign rail service

07 August, 2010 12:05

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