Gangway! Keep 'em rolling
Cartoon of a smiling locomotive with muscled arms holding a coal bucket and an oil can, standing on a tank car and a hopper car marked 'load and unload promptly' and 'send car back P.D.Q.'. The tell is card-stacking by selected figures: 1,600,000 tons of coal a day and 700,000 barrels of oil a day, with no source given.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Association of American Railroads (cartoonist Hungerford)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Association of American Railroads (cartoonist Hungerford). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-850 (NAID 514344).
Text on the object
GANGWAY ! COAL 1,600,000 TONS A DAY OIL 700,000 BARRELS A DAY TO THE EAST LOAD AND UNLOAD PROMPTLY SEND CAR BACK P.D.Q. KEEP 'EM ROLLING ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS [signature:] HUNGERFORD [handwritten pencil:] "Doc" Astin [handwritten pencil:] "Dr" Astin Special XXX
