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D32214-3
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- 1948-03-08 (Creation)
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On March 8, 1948, Tacoma Scouts troop 78, representing a number of grade schools, was given a special tour through the South Tacoma Northern Pacific shops at 5102 South Adams Street accompanied by Scoutmaster H.F. DesVoigne (back row, far right). They were shown the huge 5,000 pound hammer used to pound out railroad drive rods and a 2 1/2 ton steam-operated hammer that was dropped by gravity and stopped by steam using manual controls. They watched as it was used to crack open a walnut without crushing it. The group is standing in front of Northern Pacific Railway Company engine number 98. ( The names of the scouts are listed in the Tacoma Times.) (McMurtrie) (T.Times, 3/12/1948, p.2)
Northern Pacific Railway Co. (Tacoma); Boy Scouts (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Railroad facilities--Tacoma--1940-1950; Railroad locomotives--Tacoma--1940-1950; Railroad companies--Tacoma--1940-1950; Maintenance & repair--Tacoma; Railroad employees;