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These are steel railroad tie tongs. Workers used them in moving railroad ties in and out of place when laying track into place or removing it.. It was part of the Charles "Bud" Goebel collection, which was housed in the Burlingame, Kansas depot from 1963 until 1981.
Date: between 1908 and 1950
Item Number: 220996
Call Number: 1981.298.3422
KSHS Identifier: 1981.298.3422
Business and Industry - Railroad
Collections - Museum
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Metalworking - Tongs
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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