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Railroad Car Repair Roundhouse Fire

ca. 1937-1957

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Railroad Car Repair Roundhouse Fire
  • Title
  • Railroad Car Repair Roundhouse Fire
  • Date
  • ca. 1937-1957
  • Identifier
  • 20110217-hpicpitcairn-0155
  • Source Identifier
  • 154
  • Description
  • A disastrous railroad fire in the Pitcairn Yards in the late 1940s destroyed the storeroom of the car repair roundhouse (on the left). In the background, behind the General Foreman’s office, is the power plant smokestack. To the right are the blacksmith and machine shops. Most of the buildings shown here were demolished in the 1960s.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Railroad yards--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Railroad repair shops--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Fires--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Pennsylvania Railroad.
    Pitcairn (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicpitcairn
  • Contributor
  • Pitcairn Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Pitcairn Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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