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Tennessee Copper Co. 102

0-6-0 locomotive pulling copper oar cars in Ducktown, Tennessee, September, 1939. Marion Wolcott photo, Library of Congress collection.

Tennessee Copper Co. 102
r_i_straw, Apr 15, 2008
    • BoxcabE50
      That's Tennessee? Looks more like Arizona. I never knew they had similar terrain?

      Boxcab E50
      Apr 15, 2008
    • r_i_straw
      From the information posted with this photo on the Library of Congress web site, the air pollution from the near by copper smelter had killed most of the vegetation for miles around.
      Apr 15, 2008
    • r_i_straw
      From Google Maps the area still seems to have a lot of bare ground although it seems to have recovered some.
      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ducktown,+Tennessee&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=35.013408,-84.369507&spn=0.2227,0.272255&t=k&z=12
      Apr 15, 2008
    • BoxcabE50
      Yikes. I wonder what (who) else was killed.... :eek:

      Boxcab E50
      Apr 15, 2008
    • ScaleCraft
      I would imagine copper oars are substantially heavier than wooden oars.
      Oct 10, 2014
    • r_i_straw
      Especially after heating them up for the smelting process. Har, har, har.
      Oct 11, 2014
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