Photos - U.S. railroads in World War II

"Rosie the Riveter" is portrayed, too...huffing it with a shovel.  First photo reminds

me of Mr. Benningfield in the Southern station I hung out at as a kid.  Station

building is gone, but I can still remember the smell.

Beautiful photographs. Oh, how I do miss Kodachrome. Thanks for posting.

Ralph - great photos.  If you haven't already, you should consider submitting these to http://railpictures.net  I think you'd find a very appreciative audience - especially for historical photos like these...

Anyone know what the leftmost of the three stream-liners is in the last photo?

Wood - Wow!  That is an impressive find.  Thank you.  

The above Delano photos and a lot more are available in the Library of Congress website. Well worth the time to look at.

Posted by Lee:  "Thank you."

My pleasure Lee...  A lot of the joy, for me, in this hobby is relating my toy train "empire" to real world track equipment and experiences.  I don't have any hands on experience in the real train world and I enjoy researching information and facts about what happened in history and what's going on today.  My favorite two magazine subscriptions are "Diesel Era" and "Trains".