Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad wooden line car 1101,
rebuilt in 1927 from combination passenger-baggage car 72, incorporated by
conscious design many of the safety features that linemen had been fighting for
—and filing lawsuits to secure—since the 1910s: a wide deck that could be raised,
lowered, and pivoted by pneumatic controls, with fold-down handrails and footguards.
Here, linemen are seen at work at Homan Avenue in Hammond, Indiana,
sometime during the 1930s or early 19402.
Edward Frank photograph, Norman Carlson collection, courtesy of Norman Carlson.