railroadshops

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[Locomotive 715 on Turntable, Tender Wheels, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

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  • Changeable Hospital said:
    Fan-shaped garage-Train hostel. 扇形車庫-火車的旅社.

[David Knight Using Sellers Wheel Lathe, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

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  • jamica1 said:
    It is often overlooked how important railroad companies were as manufacturers. Their own shops were industrial sites of considerable scope and sophistication.

Cotton Thull [?] Ghaut G.I.P.Ry.

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  • Paul Castro said:
    Could the title be 'Cotton Thull'? I'm doing some research on Portuguese Goa and have found many mentions of a material called 'tanã', which appears to a sort of cheap cotton made near Bombay.
  • SMU Libraries Digital Collections said:
    Paul Castro Hi there and thank you for your interest! I believe I might be able to clarify this for you. Thull Ghat is an archaic spelling of Thal Ghat, more modernly known as Kasara Ghat - a mountain incline/slope in the Western Ghats, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. What the photograph depicts is a cotton storage facility, located at this Ghat. As for 'tanã', I'm not completely certain, but I believe the word might stem from an area near Mumbai which was known for its cotton growing, in the 1870s. Thane is a district in present-day Mumbai, which was once known (and spelled) as both Thana and Tanna. In the book "In Quest of Coolies" by James L. A. Hope, printed in 1872 - there is a mention of how cotton-growing in Tanna was "showing signs of being a great business in the future". Link: books.google.com/books?id=F9gvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92 I hope you find this information useful!
  • Paul Castro said:
    That's a real help. Thanks a lot for taking the time to get back to me.