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Four-Yard Bucket Railcar

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Four-Yard Bucket Railcar
Description Carload of 4-yard concrete buckets on 950 elevation trestle. Notice here how workers would connect cranes to the buckets of concrete to allow quick pour of concrete to rapidly increase the size of the Grand Coulee Dam.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/
Creator Photographer Unknown; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Trestles--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete dams--Design and construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete Storage--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Concrete; Construction Equipment United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b5v4p237.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1375
Date 5/26/1936 2007
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. IV, Page 237)-Cage 40, Box 05 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 pixels by the long side for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. While 24 bit 150 PPI JPEG also created and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries.
Language English

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