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This photograph shows a Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe dynamometer test car with the chronograph recording table and instrument panel with operator at the test and a operator at the window "punching" mile posts and other locations which serve as references on the record. The primary measuring equipment in the car is the drawbar pull instrumentation. W.H. Clark, research engineer electrical, is at the recording table, and Glenn A. Peters, test engineer, at window. Other information recorded is locomotive throttle position, transition, dynamic braking, speed, time, car, travel, locations, air brake information.
Date: Bwteen 1950s and 1960s
Item Number: 60971
Call Number: ATSF Series 1, #6.157
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 60971
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Engineers
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Employees
Type of Material - Photographs
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