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Gunnar Bergfalke

Swedish narrow (891 mm) gauge steam locomotive built in 1909, retired in 1964, at Uppsala Ö.
It can be noted there are two stations in this photo as the tracks and platform to the right of the locomotive is Uppsala C. Separation used to be about 100 m.
#railway #railroad

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Gunnar Bergfalke

Some photos from 2014 when i visited an iron ore reloading point in Pitkäjärvi, northern Sweden.
1 Front loader for iron powder spills
2 3 T44 switches the ore cars of the tipping bathtub type
4 2 * Rm iron ore locomotives and one Rc4 also fitted with a knuckle coupler, which is/was unusual.
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today In Labor History March 27, 1912: Start of the 8-month Northern railway strike in Canada by the IWW. Over 8,000 construction workers walked off the job at Northern Railway workcamps Wobblies picketed employment offices in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Tacoma and Minneapolis in order to block the hiring of scabs.

Fellow workers pay attention to what I'm going to mention,
For it is the fixed intention of the Workers of the World.
And I hope you'll all be ready, true-hearted, brave and steady,
To gather 'round our standard when the red flag is unfurled.

CHORUS:
Where the Fraser River flows, each fellow worker knows,
They have bullied and oppressed us, but still our union grows.
And we're going to find a way, boys, for shorter hours and better pay, boys
And we're going to win the day, boys, where the river Fraser flows.

For these gunny-sack contractors have all been dirty actors,
And they're not our benefactors, each fellow worker knows.
So we've got to stick together in fine or dirty weather,
And we will show no white feather, where the Fraser river flows.
Now the boss the law is stretching, bulls and pimps he's fetching,
And they are a fine collection, as Jesus only knows.
But why their mothers reared them, and why the devil spared them,
Are questions we can't answer, where the Fraser River flows.

(Lyrics by Joe Hill, 1912, to the tune of “Where the River Shannon Flows.”)

IWW strikers arrested near Savona in April 1912 during the Northern railway construction strike. They are standing outside, uncuffed, with telephone poles and hills in the background.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#IWW
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Gunnar Bergfalke

Construction site monorail.
Very interesting monorail made by made by Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd. My memory is that it's reportedly been used at two construction sites in Sweden, the last Linköping Cathedral renovation in the 1960s, before being retired to this place.
Since I photographed it, moved to somewhere else, for preservation.
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