Image: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Woodlyn, Pennsylvania (1912)

Description: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Woodlyn, Pennsylvania (1912). Identifier: baltimoreohioemp07balt (find matches) Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: crew at work. There havebeen two derailments of locomotives here re-cently, so I had some chance of seeing how thewreck crews act. They do not use a crane, buthand-power jacks of various sizes, raising theengine up on blocks and ties, and graduallypushing it over upon the track. On a simplederailment they use large crank-operated jacks.In serious derailments, such as the last one(when the little switch engine split a switch,knocked over a jumping post, and proceeded tobury itself up to its axles in the clay), they use alarger jack, working on the same principle asthe capstan on a boat, with the possible excep-tion that the lever works on a rachet. A ropeis attached to the handle, or lever, near the end.One man stands at the jack and pushes on thelever while two or three pull on the rope. Theman at the jack then pulls it back on the rachet,and they pull again, until by this laboriousprocess they get another block underneath. Will drop you a line later, when I get theopportunity. Fr^nk. Text Appearing After Image: Standard Track and Station, Woodlyn, Pa., Baltimore Division Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Woodlyn, Pennsylvania (1912)
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