Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — FLOATING GANG OF FEMALE LABORERS WORKING ON PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FLOATING GANG OF FEMALE LABORERS WORKING ON PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

The first photograph showing woman section hands working on an American railroad. ■ Other railroad positions have been opened up to woman workers because of the war-time scarcity of male labor, but this is the first time that woman workers have taken their place beside the men in the section gang The women in this picture form a floating gang of female laborers working on the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania railroad, east of Summerhill.