Washing locomotives is an old business, but it is a new thing to see women doing the work. This crew of women engine cleaners on the Pennsylvania Railroad is taking the place of men called into the armed services Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photographer Date Created/Published: 1943? Medium: 1 neg

Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house 8d30408v

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Mrs. Stevens' husband is in the U.S. Army

Women in essential services. Women railroad workers take over the cars and maintenance of freight and passenger trains in the Southern Pacific Company yards at San Francisco Creator(s): Rosener, Ann, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information. Date Created/Published: 1943 F

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa

Women in essential services. Two women railroad workers enjoy a moment of relaxation from their new job in the yards of the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco Creator(s): Rosener, Ann, photographer Related Names: United States. Office of War Information. Date Created/Published: 1943 Feb. Medi

C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H' class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army