File:Westbound shop tracks in 1924..jpg
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Another photo from the 1982 Brunswick Citizen series that featured photos provided by James F. McMurry. This one shows the westbound shop tracks in 1924.
On the left is pictured the old ice house - an important part of any freight handling facility. The ice was shipped in to Brunswick. Note the elevators for the cakes of ice, leading up to whatever level of the ice house was being filled or emptied. The cars at the ice house platform are refrigerator cars, used by the Fruit Growers Express for apples and other perishable items.
Note the signs in the middle of the tracks, beyond each switch. To get one removed so that a car could be moved out, the train engineer would blow five long blasts, then indicate the track number by the correct number of short blasts; only then would the track foreman remove the sign. It was a matter of taking every possible safety precaution.
The coal tipple is visible in the distance on the lower right.
(Courtesy of Kim Myers)
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