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Box 54

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Contains 290 Results:

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents From the File: This is a photo of Division Avenue or Railroad Avenue, Birmingham, Alabama. Notice the curve of the track and the trucks on the track. The engine has to enter at the bottom of the photo on the left side since the truck is a dead end at the top of the photo. Because of the curvature only the fireman on the left can see whether the trucks are clear of the track. If cars are to be spotted next to the building at the right of the photo, where the white car is parked, they have to be pulled...
Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents From the File:

Notice the grass on track, also curvature of track. Close clearance on left side of engine just behind engine is a street crossing. All the signals passed on left side of engine.

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents From the File:

Sequence of photographs with O-23, O-24, and O-25. Frisco Engine working an industry at night. The engine is headed into the plant, going around the curve to the left. The light just inside the gate is the switchman's who is passing a signal to the fireman. There is very close clearance and much grass and weeds that make it very hazardous for the ground men to get on and off cars, or to position themselves so as to pass signals.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 54, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents From the File:

Sequence of photographs with O-23, O-24, and O-25. Frisco Engine working an industry at night. The engine is just a little further into the plant.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 54, Folder: 65
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of photographs of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's facilities in Birmingham, Alabama. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 32, are referred to by the letter O in testimony, and were taken by L.A. Dubose. Mr. Dubose was employed as a locomotive fireman and engineer by the Louisville and Nashville in the Birmingham Mineral Subdivision; he was also a member of Local 751 of the BLF&E. The L&N was a class I railroad that...
Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 54, Folder: 66a
Scope and Contents From the File:

Sequence of photographs with O-23, O-24, and O-25. Frisco engine working an industry at night. Note the man between the engine and the fence, and all of the grass and weeds that he is standing in. All the work here is done on the left side, with very close clearance. You must have a fireman to keep a lookout and relay signals.

Dates: 1960