Vintage work crew photos

[mr mikey]

now you know why people in the stands go home sick, they served the shaved ice as a treat.

[Jon]

Westinghouse Air Brake Company workers. 1895.

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[TrickieDickie]

George Westinghouse was a prolific inventor and was good to his employees. It took a long time for the railroad industry to adopt air brakes, they argued it costs more money and they already had brakemen, so whats the point. Being a brakeman was a dangerous job and you rarely lived to be very old.

[Jon]

Daily postal delivery to Pie Town, New Mexico. June, 1940.

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[IntheGroove]

Do you have Prince Albert in a can...

[bruce.desertrat]

How considerat, they stacked the baby chicks on the other side of the bumper from the exhaust pipe...

[Toolmaker51]

Between postal stations I hope, imagine trying to stage those as deliveries. Up to WWII, most US population was small town and rural. Ramping up production of war materiel changed that balance.

[baja]

I blew an oil line on my Landcruiser just down the road from there on a Memorial Day weekend on the way home from a billboard painting trip. Luckily, there was a wrecking yard open in Quemado that helped me get repaired.

[Hoosiersmoker]

I was born in Tucumcari, NM. Have actually been through Pie Town going to AZ but I blinked and missed it!

[Jon]

Generative AI on a photo of WWII aircraft part builder Eunice Hancock.




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