Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/In double quick time, like a railroad engine.
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- Reason
- I love railroad history, and Altoona hosted the main repair shop complex for the Pennsylvania Railroad, making a view of it particularly interesting. And, yes, I do intend to do as much of Fowler's work as I can, it's a fantastic resource.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Altoona, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
- Creator
- Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler and James B. Moyer; Restoration by User:Adam Cuerden
- Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:57, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
- Comment — So-o-o, they had trouble with possessive apostrophes masquerading as plurals even a century ago! Sca (talk) 23:30, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
- Yep. You'll note the [sic] on the description page. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:51, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support - Quality and encyclopedic value is good enough. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:20, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support. High quality image and high encyclopedic value. --Carioca (talk) 19:57, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support - Nice detail. The history of technology is important, and the Pennsylvania Railroad in particular is an important part of (U.S.) American history. -- CorinneSD (talk) 22:04, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support — Historically interesting. Sca (talk) 00:53, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Promoted File:Thaddeus M. Fowler - Penn'a R.R. Car Shop's, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1895.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 15:57, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
- Placed it in History/USA History. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:57, 19 June 2014 (UTC)