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...Photo...Planer Work ...1937...

lathefan

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..."machinist at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA operating a big Niles Bement Pond Co. metal planer in 1937"...

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These are the cast steel frame sides - you can tell by the big tough chips

You can also see a fine idea on overhang - that cross rail is really down there

Well over fifty years ago I had a few conversations with a 84 year old that ran an over head crane here
 
By 1937 Baldwin was in their new location in Eddystone, a borough south and west of Philadelphia.

Beautiful photograph. I'm often struck by the work in black and white by the old industrial photographers. They were not self involved artists, they were simply artists.

David
 








 
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