New York Transit Museum
#WomensHistoryMonth: These #NYTMCollection photographs from 1943-44 show women who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Photo 1: A “switch tender” aligning routes for car movements at Sunnyside Yard. The physical nature and tools of her work have changed little from the railroad's early days.
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Photo 2: Elizabeth B. Johns: one of the first women to work as a passenger “trainman” on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Philadelphia suburban trains.
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Photo 3: A "lantern girl" at Pennsylvania Railroad's Sunnyside Yard. She is distributing newly cleaned and refilled signal lanterns to operating crews.
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Photo 4: A rail drilling machine operator in a Pennsylvania Railroad shop.