Photographs of snow or workers working
Why do there seem to be so few photographs of snow or showing railroad workers at work?
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 5:56 AM
Thursday, March 23, 2006
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From: "Wendell Huffman" wendellhuffman@hotmail.com
There are few photos of either snow or workers working. The photographer was paid to document progress and success, not how difficult it was going to be for the investers to reap any rewards. Snow scenes with lots of locomotives pushing a bucker plow have been reproduced, but they are from later years. One image reproduced in George Abdil's Pacific Slope Railroads ... does show winter snow at Cisco [with a man in the foreground of the photo] and must date from 1867 or 1868.
—Wendell
Some snow related images:
Snow Drift engraving
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Snow Plow"
Houseworth 1263
Houseworth 1253
Houseworth 1253, detail
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Snowplow No. 1
"Snow Bound" – Currier & Ives
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