To engage the air brakes on locomotives without their power being on, air hoses would be attached during repairs. Compressed air also powered many of the tools used.
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Although the caves deviated little in their year-round temperature, it was common to use blocks of ice to cool beer immediately before shipment. This is the ruins of the ice chute.
A long exposure of the side of the coke ovens, lit by the nearby streetlights.
Look at the floor–do you see the hole? That goes down a lonnnnnng ways.
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A switch for the yard engines, now on the edge of the property where nobody will find it.
The entry point for the painting shed on the top floor. Cars would have a few feet in between them before they entered. Separate sheds would prime and add color.
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