Title

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano.

Caption

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in shape. Santa Fe R.R.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A77_284

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NA

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NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

107,5Mb (1,8Mb) / 23,5in x 17,8in / 7037 x 5338 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation interior library work railways train country railway color war maintenance wheel location century inside concept tyre locomotive 1940s Library of Congress heated Iowa Forties United States of America Colour World War II World War two WWII Indoors world war 2 Lee County 20th century American America USA decade Second World War TGN WW2 photograph united states 2nd World War Atchison Congressional Library Heritage Art AT&SF Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI still image Transparencies Color. gmgpc Jack Delano Delano Jack Ovcharov Jack Jack Ovcharov Jacob Ovcharov Ovcharov Jacob railroad shop Fort Madison railroad maintenance