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Chicago, Illinois. Engineer and fireman on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad waiting for the highball sign before pulling out of the yard for Clinton, Iowa

Chicago, Illinois. Engineer and fireman on the Chicago and Northwester...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dahinda (vicinity), Illinois. The flagman gives the highball sign as the train is ready to start again on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Chillicothe, Illinois and Fort Madison, Iowa

Dahinda (vicinity), Illinois. The flagman gives the highball sign as t...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emporia, Kansas. Brakeman H.L. Duffield, giving the "highball" as the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train between Emporia and Wellington pulls out of the yard

Emporia, Kansas. Brakeman H.L. Duffield, giving the "highball" as the ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Verona, Illinois. The brakeman gives the highball sign after the train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois

Verona, Illinois. The brakeman gives the highball sign after the train...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The crew of a passing east-bound freight train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Fort Madison, Iowa and Marceline, Missouri giving the highball sign

The crew of a passing east-bound freight train on the Atchison, Topeka...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Highball Express" to Bimini starts

"Highball Express" to Bimini starts

Aeromarine Airways, Inc. passenger airplane reaching Bimini. Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laughing over a highball at a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas

Laughing over a highball at a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Sh...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thoreau, New Mexico. Indian woman crossing the tracks as the conductor gives the highball along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico

Thoreau, New Mexico. Indian woman crossing the tracks as the conductor...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Needles, California. A brakeman giving the highball as the train is about to leave the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard

Needles, California. A brakeman giving the highball as the train is ab...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Marceline, Missouri and Argentine, Kansas. Brakemen exchanging highball signs. When two trains pass one another, the brakeman watch the other train for signs of hot boxes or other damage. If all is well, the highball sign is given. If not, other signals, to indicate the type of trouble, are used

On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Marceline, Miss...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.