East Side of Alaskan Way Viaduct, North of Atlantic Street, 1960

This is a picture taken along the east side of the viaduct just north of Atlantic Street. The left is a long freight train moving across Atlantic Street and curving around in the center background. Also note from this track running north and south, the open switch points and the crossover. Here we have heavily raveled streets again. This is an industrial area of Seattle. City buses use these streets, as indicated by bus zone just to the right of the Atlantic Street sign on the right-hand portion of the picture. The track will lead to the industrial track shown here in the center of the picture which cuts across both of these tracks and runs into the industry plant shown on the right-hand side of the picture. Somewhere industry leads cut across the streets at points further north along Atlantic Street. These crossing are all unprotected by flashing lights, bells, or gates. Lookouts are required on both sides of the cab at all times. Important to note, though, is that there is a crossing watchman at Atlantic Street flagging the movement of engines through there, and also protecting the vehicle traffic.