After reading The Spirit of Cumberland article in the March 2012 TrainsMag I decided to join this forum.
The topic of rail vehicle maintenance and engineering is my primary interest and if anyone has any good links or resources, I would appreciate a response. Thanks.
While I am particularly interested in component-level (depot) maintenance, all levels of maintenance (shop and house) are just as relevant to me. We can learn a lot from various capital intensive industries.
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I'm not sure how broad your area of interest is on this subject. There have been many books published on the various railroad's backshops, the shops where the heavy maintenance, rebuilds, and in some cases, construction of locomotives was done in the steam and electric era. If there's a particular railroad you're interested in, you can do a Google search for that railroad's name, followed by the word "shop." There's also the question of time period, older, and especially smaller railroad's shops didn't have much published about them or photographed "back in the day" in my speculation, because they didn't lend themselves to photography technology of the day, being close and dark. Larger railroads with a company photographer would be more likely to have gotten into the shops on occasion and many of these are posted on line.
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