Fitchburg Railroad Company Coal trestle, East Fitchburg Yard

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GLC#
GLC05235.03.03-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1893 ca.
Author/Creator
Fitchburg Railroad Company
Title
Coal trestle, East Fitchburg Yard
Place Written
Fitchburg, Mass.
Pagination
1 cyanotype Height: 16.9 cm, Width: 11.8 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age

Employees stand on a tall platform and a steaming train is below. It is a view of the same coal trestle as GLC05235.03.01 and GLC05235.03.02, but from the opposite direction. A flatbed car is on the trestle. A 4-4-0 engine with a man standing on top its cab sits on the trackes, dwarfed by the structure. The coal trestle burned (either damaged by fire or burned down completely) in 1893.

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