For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
Formaldehyde for phenol and urea-formaldehyde plastics and other industrial and agricultural uses is contained into these tank cars. These cars are at the Perth Amboy, New Jersey plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department where formaldehyde is...
Caption: "Mine cars are automatically loaded by motor driven conveyor belts in mines of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. This scene is more than a thousand feet below the earth's surface at Burnside Colliery, near Samokin, Pa."
Caption: "Lowering conveyors load railways cars with coal after it has been given its preliminary cleaning and sizing. These cars are sent to the central preparation plant a few miles away where the product is finally prepared for marker by the...
Photograph taken on the Richmond Union Passenger railway, and represents an experiment which was made to test the ability of the overhead system to conduct enough current to the extreme end of the line to operate all the cars at one time... the...
A line of loaded mine cars awaiting their turn on the weighing machine preliminary to being dumped at the head house of the Reynolds tipple; and one of the Company's modern electric hauling locomotives returning the mine after bringing out a train...
Cars flew like an endless chain down the humps night and day. Here at Taylor Yards of the Southern Pacific in Los Angeles, the humpmaster watches from his tower as the cars are classified after arrival in the yard.
Huge motor driven drums like that shown in the picture dump the run of mine coal from railroad cars into the hoppers which feed the worlds largest anthracite breaker at Locust Summit, PA. The capacity of the automatic car dumps at this breaker is...
Some of the coal brought by railway cars from nearby mines to be fed into the Locust Summit District Central Breaker of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Locust Summit, PA. This cleans and prepares the Reading anthracite used as...
Railroad cars loaded with produce for New York City markets cross the Hudson River on barges which come to rest alongside the New York piers. Before being auctioned off or shipped to consignees, the lots may be inspected by U.S. Department of...
Railroad cars loaded with produce for New York City markets cross the Hudson River on barges which come to rest alongside the New York piers. Before being auctioned off or shipped to consignees, the lots may be inspected by U.S. Department of...
