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ERRATA.
What is wrong in these two photographs?
https://www.shorpy.com/node/22358
https://alanehunter.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/z-polio.iron_.lung_.jpg?w=825
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#1: I sure wouldn’t want the be riding whatever shove move bowed the end platform and whacked those steps in like that! Hard to believe that was legal, even for proprietary mine railroads.
#2. It is a sad day when the only communication device the young victim has is a coin telephone. Even if he could vocalize ‘reverse the charges’ I don’t see how he gets the coins in there in the first place. And the gritted look on his face may be trying to hear while the microphone on the handset is pressed to his ear with the speaker up in the air…
Since he can’t individually handle the hand set of the phone - the caregiver that is holding the phone would also be the one to handle the change and the dialing action. One could only hope that the caregiver would be in earshot of the ringing from a incoming call.
2nd picture:
Is she holding the phone backward? The cord is usually attached to the mouthpiece end of the handset which seems to be against his ear.
Brings back memories of the sad scenes on TV back in the fifties of rows of kids in iron lungs.
Correct.
The Telephone Receiver is being held Reversed.
Darkened Wards with rows of Iron Lungs were a chilling sight in Hospitals back in our day.
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I would suspect that the shot was posed and no one put two and two together. Or they didn’t want the cord to block his face.
In the series “Emergency” there is a shot in which Captain Stanley is famously talking at the back of the radio mic. I think it was a “stock shot,” so it showed up in several episodes.
Aha! I’ve been looking at that first picture for three days, and all I could come up with was that that car has endured a mighty rough life, and that I felt very nervous for the safety of that brakeman, but I couldn’t find anything wrong. Then it hit me. The knuckle on the coupler seems to be on the wrong side. The clincher was the brakeman’s shirt. Unless he’s wearing a woman’s blouse, the buttons are on the wrong side. The picture was printed backwards.
Edit: I just realized that the brakeman is wearing overalls, but the convention for buttons should still apply.
Correct!
Spent a summer dumping Air Dumps and noticed the hoses wrong in photo, and much else.
Fill for Bank Widening for CWR, and Rip Rap the size of Econoline Vans
Made a 50 MPH Run at night to save the Railway w Kootenay under cutting the ties w Spring Runoff.
Roadmaster pointedly trying to NOT look at Speedometer on the H-16. Still 85 lb. steel above tired ties last changed during the Depression.
H-Lines had better ’ Loading ’ characteristics and Compressors than latest GP9s,and could ‘Shake Out ’ 40’ Londitudinal Ballast Hoppers with alacrity. Doors opened and closed w cranks.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/360693.jpg
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/two.htm
Mosquitoes were Awful.
Behind the Wings Cab, Wood, Spreader, Air, had a Single Note
Westinghouse Honker from early Diesel which received much
use just for the Hell of it round curves. Safety First re MoW.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_diesel/4000_44xx_.jpg
Pusher, Frank, Alberta.
Rather than Turn Pusher and Caboose to return East to Bottom
of Frank Slide for another Push, they fitted rear of Caboose
w a Locomotive Headlight on Running Board, and ran in
Reverse back down.
http://cranbrookhistory.com/image_view.php?ID=46380
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FYI.
Pipe above coal bunker on tender is Stoker Exhaust.
Alberta Prairie did the same thing with the tank car they used as an auxiliary tender for their ex-Frisco and Mississippian 2-8-0. The tank car is now used as a stationary storage tank at the south end of their run (Big Valley, AB) and the headlight is back in its original location on 41’s tender.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/tourist/alberta_prairie.htm
Montreal Tramways 5001, 1944.
Have not seen this view before.
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0200/mt5001.jpg
Lovely Bell. Where did it go?
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Golden History.
After the War, CPR Built Three 3 Steel Bay Window Cabooses.
They were of lower profile, and not really popular.
Anyway, one was based at Golden, BC as a Rider Car to travel
w Road Switcher West from Golden to switch sawmills.
Here it is in Caboose track on south side of Main Line East of Station.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LqEAAOSwFnVi7wFE/s-l1600.jpg
Vulnerable in a side swipe situation at night?
Note Coal Scuttle and Drinking Water Pail.
CP 8609. From ebay.
A clear view of one of these as originally painted with Radiator end Front.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3R4AAOSwud9i-Iri/s-l1600.jpg
C. 1960 most of the Long Hood Front H-16-44s were converted to
Short Hood as Front.
CP 8554 and CP 8555 were not.
Likewise converted were CP’s Train Masters. CP 8900 to 8920.
Note CP 8547 in Photo. This order had Sealed Beam Headlights within a
Large Circular Glass-Face opening.
Note Ext
I believe this was a retrofit than many railroads used, replacing the large, single lamp reflector.
Perhaps those pieces of sheet metal were already cut.
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The ditchlights on modern units also get pretty scummy after trailing for a while, they get covered in dirt and track grease that gets thrown up by the wheels. The “Grime-Free” hand cleaner packets we get are pretty good at dissolving this stuff, and then you can easily wipe it off with some paper towels.
I’ve replaced a few headlight bulbs and many marker light bulbs over the years (CN still puts red lights on DP capable units), but I wouldn’t dream of trying that while we’re moving.
Trivia: For those familiar with the animated movie “Polar Express,” the headlight bulb changing scene was relatively authentic (aside from being done on a moving train, etc).
The train sounds for the movie were recorded using PM 1225 at Owosso. After the sound crew had left, it apparently occurred to someone at the production company that they should know how the bulb was changed in the headlight. They requested that SRI (Steam Railroading Institute) video the process, which SRI did. And you’ve seen the result.
Didn’t some of Western Pacific’s early Geeps use those garbage-can headlights?
Some interesting sealed-beam conversions were tried. NYC and B&O used what I recall was a Pyle conversion that attached on the front of a headlight, replacing the glass and frame – this defines some of the familiar look of a Niagara. PRR put vertical sealed beams behind glass on quite a few GG1s. I have seen ONE picture of a T1 converted to two sealed beams (vertically arranged) – in Indiana in 1948. (Didn’t the Australian T1-tribute 4-8-4s wind up with horizontal pairs of sealed beams?)
At least one Southern railroad – I think ACL – put SEVEN sealed-beam units in one headlight housing… which as I recall had glass in front, perhaps not for too long. I suspect this did not last any longer than UP and C&NW’s vertical ‘spotlight’ headlights (another fascinating idea).
Mr. O is correct as usual!
EL DID have at least one GP w Garbage Can Headlight. No D/B.
https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0101/el1201.jpg
And WP had several.
https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=313356
Both CPR and CNR had them, also.
CP 8417, Crowsnest. 1975.
http://www.okthepk.ca/dataCprSiding/articles/201402/images/oddsEndsB04.jpg
This was LAST CP GP7 before being Rebuilt
CP 8484.
http://www.trainweb.org/galt-stn/cproster/locomotive/8400s/cp8484.htm
The bells were moved to above Headlight on some Units account
would plug w snow when behind Pilot and not ring.
As an aside, those “Golden Glow” reflectors use uranium glass. Radium glass at a concentration that would show any color would be… unadvisable. (And about eight-figure expensive in the '20s!)