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Conductor and Caboose in North Dakota Blizzard (editor's title) |
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Description:
BNSF Railway conductor Keith Clingingsmith is obscured by a blizzard as he prepares to board the caboose of his freight train at Knife River, North Dakota. The train is the Hettinger Local, which originates in Glendive, Montana, and runs over part of the railroad's extensive Montana Division to Hettinger, North Dakota, before returning to Glendive. The train is servicing the American Collide facility in Knife River. At the time of the photo, Clingingsmith had 27 years of service with BNSF and predecessor Burlington Northern. He hired on with the railroad at a time when all freight trains used cabooses and were assigned to specific conductors. In the 1980s, cabooses were replaced almost exclusively by electronic "FREDs" (flashing rear-end devices). A few local trains, such as the Hettinger, continued to use cabooses to ease switching and reverse movements. |
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Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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| Coverage: |
Spatial, Knife River, North Dakota; Temporal, March 2000 |
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Knife River, North Dakota |
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Creator Description:
Joel Jensen, Ely, Nevada, is a free-lance photographer whose work has been featured in magazines and books throughout the world. Railroad photography, both historical and contemporary, has been a twenty-year-long passion for Jensen. Linda Niemann's and Joel's collaboration, Railroad Noir, appears in 2010. |
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