A crew of four on a hand-car. The small building to the left in the picture is probably the hand-car shed so they are either just leaving or just returning.
Railroad construction & maintenance; Telegraph; Telegraph lines; People; Telecommunication cables
This is a group of eight men, their hand-car and a cable reel wagon. They are a line crew for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Their boss was a man named Will Johnson and they are likely repairing a telegraph line.