Box 53
Contains 394 Results:
CNW Main Line, 1960
CNW main line westbound to right, PRR to left. Approaching Western Avenue Interlocking Plant.
Kaplan Junk Yard, Yard #4, and Yard #2 from IHB Hill, 1960
Cars were burned here and the smoke would obscure the vision of train operators (same location as exhibit E-24). IHB is the reporting mark for Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad.
Harrisburg Penn Station, 1960
Taken from the Mulberry Street overhead bridge
Freight Yard and Caboose Tracks, 1960
Taken at the extreme west end of the Enola Yard, looking eastward. Large number of crossovers and leader ladder tracks. To left of telephone pole are two switch engines working on same ladder.
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Shows the east end of the switching lead of the Texas and Pacific El Paso yard. Passenger cars shown are on rip track No. 5 and it is adjacent to the main track. Workmen on rip track, coach cleaners and a large number of pedestrians use the area shown by employee in picture to cross from the residential area to the school and churches.
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Showing the rip track lead and the Old Main which is an industrial switching track. Locomotives used by the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. are the hooded type diesel switcher and the engines are headed in a westward direction for a more efficient, safe yard operation.
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Looking to the northeast straight down the track will be noted number of busy street intersections some protected by flasher type signals and some by standard cross buck signs. Ground crews working on Right side on locomotive leave the left side of locomotive to the second man on the engine. These movements are reverse to the direction the engine is headed.
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The cars shown in the picture approached this crossing from the left side of the locomotive in the direction the locomotive is headed. (Note the absence of warning signs or flasher lights for the protection of the vehicular traffic in a south movement).
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Shows the lead to the yard tracks at the El Paso yard. Note absence of railing or barrier to protect the clearance of vehicular traffic prom the switching lead. This view would be from the left side of locomotive headed in a westerly direction. Picture #23 shows a close up of the above mentioned condition.