Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing the sand line is one of the chores that fall to the "tallow pot," or firemen of a railway locomotive. In addition jobs like this, the "tallow pot" serves up an average of eight to ten tons of coal each eight hour day to the big "hog" or locomotive. This man fires a train carrying materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
rhea county
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain