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Box 54

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Contains 290 Results:

View of the Tracks Approaching the Hump in Boyles Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents

Notice the cars with the tractor pushing them. This track runs in to no. 4 west departure track. No derail or anything to keep the cars from being pushed out into an engine or train using no 4 departure track.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

Industry Siding, Nashville Bridge Co, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents This is a photo of the Nashville Bridge Plant at Bessemer, Alabama. This track leads off the main line just south of 15th Avenue. There is a GP-7 type engine used on this job. The track curves around and enters the door in the building, running through the building about twenty car lengths. There are men and machinery on and close to the track. In 1959 a yard engine coupled to a car that men were working on and cut a man's leg off. This track curves to the right then back to the left very...
Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

Industry Siding, Nashville Bridge Co, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents This is a photo of the Nashville Bridge Plant at Bessemer, Alabama. This track leads off the main line just south of 15th Avenue. There is a GP-7 type engine used on this job. The track curves around and enters the door in the building, running through the building about twenty car lengths. There are men and machinery on and close to the track. In 1959 a yard engine coupled to a car that men were working on and cut a man's leg off. This track curves to the right then back to the left very...
Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

View of the L&N Main Llne on Right, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents On the right side of this photo is the L & N main line. This area is in yard limits and the yard engines often leave cars on the main line while placing cars at some industries. Track has a sharp curve making it very important to have a fireman on the left side to help watch for cars and engines. Note the curvature in the upper right center part of the photo where cars are stored on the tracks. In July, 1961, I was a fireman on engine number 432, which is a GP-7 hooded type engine,...
Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

L&N Main Line Bisected by the Southern Railway Main Line, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents

The tracks running diagonally from the lower left to the upper right portion of the picture are the L & N main tracks. The track running across the photo is the Southern main line. The Southern switches passenger coaches over these L & N tracks. Notice the cars on the adjacent tracks which obstruct the view of the crossing and which make it hazardous. Notice the weeds and tall grass along tracks as well the the wires overhead; these are all hazards.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

L&N Main Line Bisected by Southern Railway Main Line, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents This picture was taken in the same area as O-6 but from a different angle, from under the 1st Avenue Viaduct. The track has a very sharp curve. The gate and house where the cars are in the center and right center is part of the Southern Railway The cement post at the left is part of the First Avenue Viaduct. On engines moving north the engineer can see only one or two car lengths ahead at this point. With the hooded type engine he has to rely on the fireman completely at this spot for the...
Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

L&N Main Line Bisected by Southern Railway Main Line, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents

Photograph taken from under 1st Avenue Viaduct. The engine is moving south on L&N main line. Note the grass and weeds along track. Southern track is just ahead of the engine. The track curves to left of 1st Avenue crossing.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

L&N Main Tracks Just North of Southern Railway Crossing at 30th Street, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 44a
Scope and Contents

Notice cars stored in track to the left. The switch is to crossover. Debris and grass close to tracks. Making it a very hazardous movement when getting on and off cars in a switching maneuver.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

L&N Main Tracks Just North of Southern Railway Crossing at 30th Street, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 44b
Scope and Contents

Notice cars stored in track to the left. The switch is to crossover. Debris and grass close to tracks. Making it a very hazardous movement when getting on and off cars in a switching maneuver.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

North and South Bound Main Lines of the L&N at 30th Street and 1st Avenue, 1960

 File — Box: 54, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents In this photo the back to back engines in the center are on the south main line. The track to the left of the engine is the 30th Street Yard. Notice the curve of the track and the cross-over form the south main to the north main. Just to the right of the engines are two storage tracks running parallel with the main line. Yard engines use this cross-over to switch cars from storage tracks to the yard or vice versa. Note that the engines consist of two units coupled together cabs in the...
Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XIV: Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N): Birmingham Division, yards, passenger terminals, and industries

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