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Delaware J&S photo archive

Prototypes
#1

Don’t know if you guys boomarked this a while ago - I found it when cleaning up my bookmarks. It’s the photo archive of the Jackson & Sharp company now stored in the Delaware Punlic Archives:

http://cdm16397.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p15323coll6/searchterm/Jackson%20and%20Sharp%20Collection!railroad/field/collec!all/mode/exact!all/conn/and!and/order/nosort/ad/asc

There are quite a few plans and other interesting photos. I liked this one, labelled ‘Railroad Car - Railway Car Loading - Export’

You can download the originals from the archive.

I was wondering what was going on in the bottom right corner, and as the photo was scanned to nearly 6000 pixels wide, I took a look.

Widening it with Photoshop, I could just read “Steel Passenger Equipment” along the top of the sign.

#2

Rooster: heads to the beer distributor for more as he doesn’t have enough for Pete’s link

#3

OSHA would have a fit with that one. Standing on a curved passenger car roof, in street clothes, with no safety equipment, leaning over to affix an advertising sign…

#4

David Maynard said:

OSHA would have a fit with that one. Standing on a curved passenger car roof, in street clothes, with no safety equipment, leaning over to affix an advertising sign…

Well, it was the Marketing Dept. Had Operations been asked to fix the sign, they’d have turned up with ladders, steel-toed boots, gloves, safety glasses, etc.

#5

That is an interesting photo…ships AND trains ===> perfect!

I have studied the archive looking for photos of the cars used in the WW&F Railway. Some really interesting and detailed photos! I only wish they had color photos back then.

#6

Eric, if you invibe in the now legal (in some states) agricultural/pharmaceutical products, you will see all kinds of pretty colours when you look at those pictures. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Just kiddinmg

Actually I agree with you. I have found several pictures of my chosen railroad, but I have to guess as to what colour the building and cars actually were.

#7

David it’s ok, didn’t ya notice the guy on the top, has hold of the belt loop on the overcoat of the guy holding the man doing the work. The Safety Officer hard at work!(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#8

I saw that. So if the guy stretching out slips, he is taking the others with him.