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 fireman, of a railway locomotive. In addition to 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
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Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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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