Corliss Steam Engine
Circa 1935 Allis-Chalmers Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This large stationary steam engine provided power to the planing mill next door. The double-spoke flywheel in 12 ft. in diameter and 4 ft. wide. It...
- louisiana
- lumber
- sawmill
Clyde Log Skidder
Clyde Log Skidder 1919 — Clyde Iron Works Duluth, Minnesota — Wood burning, steam powered, 4 line, re-haul skidder on wheels. A wire rope was run from its metal booms to the woods where...
- louisiana
- machinery
- lumber
Red River and Gulf RR Locomotive #106
Red River and Gulf #106 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive works in September, 1923. It is a 4-6-0 type locomotive and is very similar to Crowell #400. Its builders number was 57203 and it...
- louisiana
- railroad
- locomotive
Salem Baptist Church
Organized September 11, 1854, by elders J.L. Simpson and George H. Washington. Oldest church in the old 8th Ward. Church was a public school in early 1900's. Destroyed by storms in...
- louisiana
- baptist
- church
The “Roundhouse", The Machine Shop and the “Car Knockers Shed”
These buildings were at the heart of the Red River & Gulf RR, and the Crowell's lumbering operations. The engine house, which was known as the "roundhouse" despite its shape, was where...
- louisiana
- machinery
- railroads
Bradbury Building
National Historic Landmark plaque for the beautiful Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles.
Holger Emil Clausen Memorial Plaque
Holger Emil Clausen*30-12-1887 +21-2-1945Died for DenmarkTortured to death byGESTAPO whose headquarter were in this building18-9-1943 5-5-1945
- danish resis...
- wwii
This Steel Mast
On part of the overhead Gantry at the end of the erstwhile island platform, this reads: "This steel mast was the first of 35,000 to be erected as part of the scheme to electrify the East Coast...
- geograph
- city
- town centre
- 1985
- lowlands
- railways
- east coast main line
We Will Remember
Mr. Pike Ward
[Location approximate]
- fishing
- whalebone arches