It's appropriate that Lewis Hine introduced his work portraits in 1921 with images of railroaders, since at that time the railroad industry was the largest single non-farm employer in the U.S. Hine, known earlier for his photos of child labor, made the award winning view of Edward Reynolds in the cab of Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive 3148. Reynolds worked for the PRR for 48 years. When he died, in accord with its policy, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers published a simple, two line obituary notice in its journal for December 1934: "Div. 53, Rahway, N.J., Bro. E. Reynolds, September 30, 1934." The BLE was familiar with Hine's work. It included three of his portraits of coal miners in its May 1924 journal, but so far none of Hine's portraits of railroaders have turned up in the BLE publication.