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At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. The ties made of pine and fir, are seasoned for eight months. The steaming black ties in the center have just come from the retort where they have been impregnated with creosote for eight hours.

from The Library of Congress

  • Rick Ortiz said:
    The creosote is why this area of Albuquerque is now a Superfund site. www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1353.htm
  • : * ( said:
    thanx for the info. when I lived there from '78 to '89, people in rural areas were still drinking from wells. run off from construction was also responsible for the health problems.

Tamping machine

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Barretstown (or Barrettstown) is in Kildare?
  • O Mac said:
    The machine would have held the track up while a series of vibrating prongs were lowered to rattled the ballast/stones under the sleepers. And if its not too early here's a YouTube of the going's on. youtu.be/j60braEk5c8?t=1m15s
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The line is still twin tracked, and still very straight near Barretstown, Co. Kildare, if that is where we are.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Apparently for packing stones under railway sleepers. A ganger in the signal maintenance department of the then C.I.E. was killed at Dundrum Station in Tipperary when a tamping machine was reversing, and the man was inspecting pins in the sleepers. (Nenagh Guardian, 21 April 1962) In 1966, British Railways planned to save £5 million every year by replacing pick-and-shovel gangs (reducing line maintenance staff from 23,000 to 16,000) with Tamping Machines. They were made by Rolls-Royce at their Shrewsbury factory. Theirs was called the Duomatic Levelling and Tamping Machine. (Irish Press, 1 September 1966) Could ours be a Rolls-Royce model?
  • derangedlemur said:
    I think the device might be following it, not preceeding it. I'd guess from the three optical instruments on it that it's checking the camber.

Young employees at T. C. Beirne's department store learning about the store's crockery lines, Brisbane, 1953

from State Library of Queensland

  • Simon Miller said:
    Read more about this image on the John Oxley Library blog blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/?p=8500
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    As an employer, the thinking of T.C. Beirne, was well ahead of his time and his fairness generated fierce loyalty. He offered a generously supported superannuation scheme, however his efforts at establishing profit sharing and employee share ownership plans designed to better reward employees were, for mainly historical reasons, largely unsuccessful. The “grand old man of the Valley”, as he became known, built Queensland’s leading department store business and a fortune for those times. As one of Australia’s first millionaires, T. C. Beirne’s generous philanthropy created lasting community legacies. Source: leaders.slq.qld.gov.au/inductees/t-c-beirne-1860-1949/