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Concrete Railcar

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Concrete Railcar
Description Consolidated Builders, Inc. installed one-man controls on the concrete trains. In addition to hook tender duties, the workman operates the train from any one of six control stations on the bridge deck of the bucket car. Rail car delivering five-yard buckets of concrete in the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam superstructure.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Concrete dams--Foundations--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Work cars (Railroads)--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Concrete United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type photographs
Identifier 40b6v6p142.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,2635
Date December, 1938 2008
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 142)-Cage 40, Box 6 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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