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7 photos tagged grease, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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One of the lady ambulance drivers underneath her car attending to something that has gone wrong

from National Library of Scotland

  • Burgonia said:
    U.S.A. car ?

Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • iris.schimandle said:
    Again, not Proviso Yard and therefore in Chicago rather than Melrose Park.
  • The Library of Congress said:
    iris.schimandle: Thanks for the correction! We've updated all 19 affected records in our own catalog ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html), and the information will be updated in Flickr soon, too. (4/25/08)

Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • roderickbodine said:
    Whoa, I love it. An important but unglamorous job captured in multiple shades of black....beautiful.
  • davchi55 said:
    This guy has a dark, greasy suit and a large greasing gun he will use to grease the gigantic locomotive behind him in the darkened room.
  • Riz_Aaroni said:
    Look at the size of those wheels!