Vintage work crew photos

**Ralphxyz** · Sep 7, 2019, 07:11 PM

All that concrete trucked in by hand!

**jdurand** · Sep 8, 2019, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Ralphxyz

All that concrete trucked in by hand!

And the water company digs it all up next week.

**Jon** · Sep 8, 2019, 11:04 AM

The fire box of an engine being built in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1943.

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**Jon** · Sep 9, 2019, 01:31 PM

Women and older men employed during WWII at a defense plant in Cressona, Schuylkill County, PA.

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**Ralphxyz** · Sep 9, 2019, 03:14 PM

Wonder what hey were making?

**Hoosiersmoker** · Sep 10, 2019, 06:56 AM

It honestly just looks like a military parts shipping department. The black wire baskets on the right are feeding some of the lines with parts or something. The packages go down the line to the left through the tunnel for some reason. They might be heat shrink tunnels, those have been around for some time. It also appears to be in Indiana too, the sign in the back on the left appears to say Fort Wayne? Some of the lines are feeding large wooden slant front crates and it looks like tires are being packaged in the top right, back of the photo along with stacks of what appear to be small tires just to the left of those. It is a very large building too!

**Hoosiersmoker** · Sep 10, 2019, 11:40 AM

Correction, Detroit, Michigan. From the website MHUGL "Military History of the Upper Great Lakes":

"... During both world wars it was used as a shipping center that sent vehicles and weapons manufactured in Detroit to the fronts of the war. During World War II the fort housed Italian prisoners of war. During the Detroit riots the fort provided housing for families whose houses were destroyed.
Fort Wayne was one of the largest motor supply depots in World War II and additional buildings were constructed near the fort to warehouse the weapons and vehicles being sent the fronts of the war. Equipment was sent out on ship by the Detroit River or by the railroad that used to run next to the fort."

Likely myriad parts for the war effort went out through the Great Lakes.