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California State Railroad Museum
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| Title: |
Oiling a Locomotive at Madison, Wisconsin (editor's title) |
| Creator: |
Hastings, Philip R., 1925-87
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Description:
Vincent Cooper (1903-86), shown here in 1954 oiling a steam locomotive's drive wheels in the Milwaukee Road shops in Madison, Wisconsin, was a 48-year employee when he retired in 1968 from the railroad as an engineer. He had been born in a small railroad town, Mazomanie, twenty miles west of Madison on the Milwaukee Road. In Madison, he lived in a railroad neighborhood two blocks from work. The funeral home that served him in death was in view of the tracks. The cemetery where he is buried is only a little south of the tracks in Mazomanie. And his brothers worked for the railroad, too. Similar facts characterize the lives of hundreds of thousands of railroaders around the country: born, lived, worked, and died in the geographic embrace of the industry. The photograph appears on the dust jacket and page 162 of Classic Steam: Timeless Photographs of North America Steam Railroading (2009). Cooper was known as a talkative, outgoing man, a railroad worker trait not necessarily characteristic but not uncommon, either. Railroaders, like fishermen and athletes, often revisit their adventures in conversations with their fellows. |
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| Classification: |
Labor and Workers (LCSH)
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| Date Created: |
1954 |
| Resource Type: |
Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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| Format: |
Black and white negative
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| Rights: |
California State Railroad Museum |
| Coverage: |
Spatial, Madison, Wisconsin; Temporal, 1954 |
| Source: |
California State Railroad Museum |
| Image ID: |
CSRM neg Hastings 3129 |
| Url: |
www.csrmf.org/ |
| Depicted Railroad: |
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
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| Location: |
Madison, Wisconsin |
| Depicted Occupation: |
Locomotive engineer
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Creator Description:
Dr. Philip R. Hastings (1925-1987), who started taking railroad pictures in 1937, was widely published in books and magazines. He is remembered especially for his teamwork with David P. Morgan, Trains editor, which resulted in the magazine's twilight of steam series from 1954 to 1958, republished as The Mohawk That Refused to Abdicate and Other Tales (Kalmbach Books, 1975). Hastings received the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society's national railroad photography award in 1985. His family donated his photographs to the California State Railroad Museum in 1997. |
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| Collection: |
Philip R. Hastings, M.D,. Collection |
| Institution: |
California State Railroad Museum
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