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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 25, 2008
Caption: Locomotive Repair
Additional Description: Interpretive marker inside the roundhouse:
The roundhouse is home to the National Park Service's operating locomotives. Today, just as in the 1930s, mechanics labor inside the roundhouse to repair working steam locomotives.

Locomotives required a great deal of daily attention to stay in running condition. Despite the fact that engineers lubricated and cared for their locomotive while on the road, the engine returned to the roundhouse after a day's work in a rather tired condition. Historically, as many as ten mechanies inspected and, if necessary, repaired the engine's boiler, wheels, firebox, stoker, brakes, staybolts, and rivets before the locomotive returned to work.
Submitted: June 13, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p66936
File Size: 0.945 Megabytes

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