Word: vandivert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trotting photographer was William Vandivert, taking a series of color pictures for this week's story on the modernization of U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS). Vandivert's previous color portfolios for TIME have included such varied pictorial reports as Abilene's Eisenhower Museum (TIME, April 5, 1954), Anderson Hospital in Houston (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954), automation in industry (TIME, March 19) and football at Michigan State University (TIME...
...this week's color story on railroading, Vandivert traveled for two months and some 23,000 miles up and down and across the U.S. To help him get his pictures, railroaders everywhere set up special timetables for their prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis...