Rufus T. Firefly wrote:So the sweeper cleared the rails and center power access, but what cleared the rails and center access for the sweeper?
The sweeper - its brushes were in front of its trucks!
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:So the sweeper cleared the rails and center power access, but what cleared the rails and center access for the sweeper?
Chris Webster wrote:Rufus T. Firefly wrote:So the sweeper cleared the rails and center power access, but what cleared the rails and center access for the sweeper?
The sweeper - its brushes were in front of its trucks!
healey36 wrote:Looks a miserable job in the "right" conditions
NYC, January of 1910. No pole, so I presume he's sweeping the third rail.
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:And, hurrying back to the barn to get warmed up after making a circuit about before freezing!
healey36 wrote:
Trolleys on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, sometime in the first decade of the last century:
Kinda makes me want to go out and wax the snow-shovel.
Jim K wrote:Agreed! Could someone tell me just what that tall rather thin framed tower is located to the left of the near church steeple? When I first saw it I thought of a cell tower. That can't be. I do see some guy wires from it; at least I think I do. Pretty unique.
Thanks,
Jim K
J. S. Bach wrote:Jim K wrote:Agreed! Could someone tell me just what that tall rather thin framed tower is located to the left of the near church steeple? When I first saw it I thought of a cell tower. That can't be. I do see some guy wires from it; at least I think I do. Pretty unique.
Thanks,
Jim K
Possibly some kind of crane for working on the steeple?
healey36 wrote:Someone needs to get in there with a scythe.
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