Lockers and Lunch Area inside the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Roundhouse in Flat Rock, Michigan, 1943
THF116647 / Lockers and Lunch Area inside the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Roundhouse in Flat Rock, Michigan, 1943
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Artifact Overview
Steam locomotives required constant maintenance and the roundhouse is where that work took place. An army of skilled and unskilled workers, like this unidentified man at the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad's Jackson, Ohio, roundhouse, kept locomotives in good running condition. The DT&I operated a 378-mile mainline between Detroit, Michigan, and Ironton, Ohio.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
03 December 1943
Subject Date
03 December 1943
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.833.79057.7
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.063 in
Width: 10.938 in
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Steam locomotives required constant maintenance from an army of skilled and unskilled workers, and the roundhouse is where that work took place. This roundhouse was built in 1884 in Marshall, Michigan, for the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Railroad. Today it services the locomotives and equipment of Greenfield Village's Weiser Railroad.