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Altar at open-air Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
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    Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

RR Train, Great Britain (LOC)

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  • Stephen Rees said:
    LNWR Mail train at Euston c1900


    It's 1395 Archimedes, a Webb Dreadnought class divided drive compound. Note the large cylinder-head cover above the buffer beam.

    She was built at Crewe in 1886 and scrapped in 1904.

    Info from John Whitaker abpr

    Handsome engines but prone to slipping. You can't see it in the
    picture but these were actually 2-2-2-0 not 2-4-0. The drivers were
    uncoupled. If one pair of drivers slipped it lost that one's share of
    adhesive weight and the other pair slipped almost immediately.

    info from Christopher A Lee abpr

    Thanks to the knowledgeable folk at alt.binaries.pictures.rail
  • Steven Pemberton said:
    I think this is dated 1926, and is probably taken during the General Strike. It looks like it says 5/4/26, which makes it the 4th May 1926, second day of the strike.
  • Alan Slingsby said:
    Coach behind engine has "Manchester" sign on it. so it's probably Euston station
  • The Library of Congress said:
    Thanks all, for your research and comments. We will add the date and station information to the data and reload the description.
  • CARL SPENCER said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called LIFE ON THE RAILWAYS, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    a beautiful locomotive,

    it looks like the one on the turtable in the great hall at NRM. YORK

    TURNTABLE - NRM

Open-air Mass, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 69th Reg't, Percy Nagle, New York (LOC)

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    Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

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