When 1st Missouri Pacific passenger train pulled into Jefferson City, Missouri, Governor Forrest Smith took over controls of the big diesel for a short run

When 1st Missouri Pacific passenger train pulled into Jefferson City, Missouri, Governor Forrest Smith took over controls of the big diesel for a short run

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Acme Newspictures

Maker
American

When 1st Missouri Pacific passenger train pulled into Jefferson City, Missouri, Governor Forrest Smith took over controls of the big diesel for a short run

October 27, 1949
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/2 × 8 5/8 in. (16.5 × 21.9 cm)
Paper: 7 1/8 × 9 1/16 in. (18.1 × 23 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0082.0435
Inscriptions Printed in image on recto, BC: KC354 - 10/27 - JEFFERSON CITY, MO: When 1st Missouri Pacific passenger train pulled \ into Jefferson City, Mo., Gov. Forrest Smith took over controls of the big diesel \ for a short run. Jesse V. Carter, engineer, of St. Louis, & conductor Forrest D. \ Lister, of Sedalia, Mo., didn't mind a bit. Gov. Smith was instrumental in getting \ 4 operating unions & railroad together to settle nation's longest railroad \ strike. (ACME TELEPHOTO)
Inscribed in blue on recto, BC: Controls [?] are on the other side
Inscribed in black grease pencil on verso, C: 1:08
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