Really Cool picture on Shorpy today!

That's awesome! I love old photos like this.

@MartyE posted:

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Dinosaur Garage: 1942

Interesting Marty.

I think I can hear the sounds.

Photos like this one really take you out of the present and put you down there with one of the guys working on these steel horses.   Don't know any of their names but I hope I'm not going to be in their way .

Thanks for the experience.

Thanks for posting Marty.

79 years ago.

Its interesting how the blurred images of the shop crew in motion give them a ghostly appearance.

The film speed was probably ASA 8 or 10 - so given the low light conditions, its not surprising that the shop crew isn't standing around long enough for the picture.  I'm always amazed at the low light capabilities of my DSLR and my cell phone

Great photo. I love Shorpy. It's an amazing archive.

All of Frank Delano’s photographs are at the Library of Congress. You can go to the LOC site and see all of his photos including this one. No need to wait for Shorpy to present them one at a time.

Pete

I have an excellent book of Delano's photos, including this one.

Fun fact:  C&NW referred to this facility as "the 40th Street shops", meaning that they were located at 4000 west (Pulaski Road FKA Crawford Avenue) in the Chicago grid address system. However, since "avenues" ran N-S and "streets" ran E-W in that same grid system, this facility would more appropriately referred to as "the 40th Avenue shops", or, better yet, the Crawford Avenue (or Pulaski Road ) shops. Back when these facilities were established, such distinctions apparently were not made.

Another fun fact:  Jack Delano was born in Ukraine as Jacob Ovcharov, and immigrated to the US with his family in 1923, when he was nine.