1880s Railroad Grading Worker with Shovel

A railroad grading labourer standing with a long-handled round-point shovel held across his body in both hands, the blade angled down toward the ground and his head lifted as though pausing between throws.

Period work dress is well observed: a soft flat newsboy cap, a blue collarless work shirt with the sleeves pushed up, a red neckerchief knotted at the throat, dark trousers held by suspenders, and heavy scuffed leather ankle boots.

The core figure for a nineteenth-century construction gang - use him grading a new right of way, filling a cut, digging drainage beside the ballast, or working a town street project on a Victorian-era layout.

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