Transportation. Freight car movements. With transportation assuming vast new importance in wartime America, movement of freight cars must be accomplished with the fullest efficiency and speed. Loss and diversion of ocean carriers which served our seaboard cities have thrown an enormous burden upon t
Rail yard in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Date
- 1942-09
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- FSA/OWI
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 1,024 × 739 pixels
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