File:Northern Pacific Railway diesel shop employees, Auburn, 1948.jpg

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English: The first diesel electric locomotive repair shop on a US Railroad was built in Auburn by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1944. Railroad officials from throughout the US and many foreign countries came to study the facility and new facility and its maintenance procedures applicable to diesel locomotives which were just then beginning to replace steam power. The photograph shows Auburn diesel shop employees on the occasion of their 1200-day unbroken safety record - no reportable injuries during that time. People in the photograph: left to right, bottom to top: Gus Nelson, Guy Wickham, Harold Bourn, Harold Krie, Fred Schroeder, J.S. Atkinson, Donald Arbogast, Scotty Waugh, Don Hash, Bob Johnson, F.B. Childs, Tony Susnar, Joe Carrifre; second row: Lou Colburn, D. Freeman, L.G. Hess, Frank McGuire, Glen Warrick, Sam Scalise, Barney Knolls, Bill Ludwig, N.H. Bidelman, R. Phillips, Charles Eininger, Ken Leen, Bill Henry, Harold Burch, Roy Gustaves; third row: Fred Radtke, G. Stoddard, C.J. Martin, Jack Christenson, Steve Polich, J.B. Wagner, J. Wright, Joe Huff, Charles Roy Gustaves.

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