#train crew

[whitedogblog]

Union Pacific train crew, 1930

[railmodeler-orca]

[theorangedeath]

Inktober #15

[marmarinou]

Norfolk and Western caboose

Caption: “The conductor gets a breath of fresh autumnal air as he waits in the passing siding for his train to return from a switching move.”

Hobart, Indiana

October 1984

Photo by George M. Stupar

[bethaven]

Day 2: The city that never sleeps🪩

When you ride trains as much as I do you start to recognize the crew, especially the ones in and around your own city.

For example there's this one attendant who, everytime we're closing in on my hometown, says: "Welcome to XX, the city that never sleeps, where the party never dies".

This is especially funny since I live in a small city, where the party only happens once a year...

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Three Crewmen Injured In Train Crash Near Perth,” Toronto Star. February 13, 1941. Page 02. ---- C.P.R. FREIGHTS IN COLLISION, STREW WRECKAGE ALONG TRACKS --- Three railway men were injured in the collision which resulted in these scenes near Perth, early yesterday. A caboose, two cars of grain and an empty car were smashes grain was strewn all over the tracks. In The Star photo at LEFT, a wrecking car is hoisting one of the freight cars back on the track. At RIGHT is the overturned tender of one engine. The collision was between two C.P.R. freights. One man, Fireman J. Parcles, was in the caboose of the front train and was trapped in blazing wreckage after the crash. He was removed and taken to Hospital, where physicians gave him a good chance to recover.

[6feetunderinlove]

Sometimes work on Sunday is just this.

[6feetunderinlove]

When you see a sign like this at work you start to wish you studied harder at school and got yourself a safer job.