Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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Delano, Jack,, photographer.
Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942 Dec.
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Identified as 40th Street shops by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008. Removed notes about Proviso Yards and Melrose Park.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Tires
Railroad shops & yards
United States–Illinois–Chicago
Format: Transparencies–Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-1 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34605
Call Number: LC-USW36-511
"This shop has goggles for the protection of your eyes. USE THEM"
I’m guessing this, too, is at 40th St. rather than Proviso.
iris.schimandle:
Thanks for the information! We’ll look into it.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1114919@N23/
The correct Technical Term for this machine is ‘wheel lathe’. The work is called ‘reprofiling’.