Dynamite is transferred to magazine area in small, narrow gauge freight cars. After loading is complete, the brakeman hooks a dummy car between engine and full car for safety.
Boxes of dynamite roll into transfer shed at end of dynamite production line at DuPont's Potomac River Works, Martinsburg, West Virginia. Hydraulic motors on powder machinery, automatic feeding and packing of paper cartridges are but a few of the...
Dynamite ingredients are carefully weighed and mixed for the powder lines in the dope house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company. Operator is dumping ammonium nitrate into a bin mounted on scales.