BGuthrie Photos: CA -- Barstow -- West America Railroad Museum

CA -- Barstow -- West America Railroad Museum:

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1. WARRM_110717_032.JPG: The Harvey Girl Legend: Fred Harvey's verbal agreement with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in 1876 let him develop something that was lacking -- a line of deluxe restaurants along the railroad's lines throughout the Southwest. One of his secrets to success were the Harvey Girls. These young women, often immigrants, had to be of good character, attractive and intelligent, 18 to 30 to be hired as waitresses. They were not to wear jewelry or rouge and had to maintain spotless uniforms -- white for breakfast and lunch, and black and white for dinner (as shown here). They were trained to high standards and always courteous. They were expected to remember orders and did not write them down. All food was carried on a tray, even a single glass of water. Waitresses signaled their customers' beverage choices to busboys by the position of the guests' cups and saucers. In the chain's 70-year history, an estimated 100,000 young women wore the uniform. More than 5,000 Harvey Girls married and settled in the West.
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Wikipedia Description: Western America Railroad Museum
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The Western America Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Barstow, California.

The museum collects, preserves and shares the history of railroading in the Pacific Southwest. It is located on the east side of the Harvey House Railroad Depot and is operated by a non-profit organization.

It houses displays inside the depot and has indoor displays of railroad artifacts, artwork, timetables, uniforms, tools and various other types of railroad items.

There are also outdoor displays of rolling stock, locomotives and general railroad operating equipment.
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2011 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs camera as well as two Nikon models -- the D90 and the new D7000. Mostly a toy, I also purchased a Fuji Real 3-D W3 camera, to try out 3-D photographs. I found it interesting although I don't see any real use for 3-D stills now. Given that many of the photos from the 1860s were in 3-D (including some of the more famous Civil War shots), it's odd to see it coming back. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences (Savannah, GA, Chattanooga, TN), New Jersey over Memorial Day for my birthday (people never seem to visit New Jersey -- it's always just a pit stop on the way to New York. I thought I might as well spend a few days there. Despite some nice places, it still ended up a pit stop for me -- New York City was infinitely more interesting), my 6th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco). Ego strokes: Author photos that I took were used on two book jackets this year: Jason Emerson's book "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow As Revealed by Her Own Letters" and Dennis L. Noble's "The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling." I also had a photo of Jason Stelter published in the Washington Examiner and a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. Number of photos taken this year: just over 390,000.
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