My mother would have seen this gem during her visit to the World’s Fair in 1939.
Read about the PRR S1 at Wikipedia.
Mom at the World’s Fair.
The Trylon and Perisphere
League of Nations building
Tag Archives: Trains
Iron Butterfly, March 1943
Found at Shorpy.
Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Lifting an engine to be carried to another part of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe shops for wheeling.” Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.
The Roundhouse.
Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards. Photo taken December, 1942
The roundhouse was an integral part of the American (and worldwide) railroad scene, typically used for locomotive storage and repair. I learned what a roundhouse was in the 50’s, from one of my favorite children’s books, Tootle:
It made perfect sense.
Roundhouses memorialized on a 2012 Forever stamp
Five locomotives lined up at Steamtown National Historic Site in Pennsylvania. “Steamtown hosted visiting steam locomotives during the Grand Opening in 1995. Five steam locomotives were posed in the Roundhouse for this photo. Historically, steam locomotives faced the other way in the Roundhouse to allow more room between the locomotives at the end where the work was done.”
Roundhouse Museum
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Playing in the World Game 