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Box 53

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View to Southeast from East End of Rankin Yard, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents Showing curvature of rails to left. Note movements of two trains on same lead. Workmen using footpath must be patrolled by engine crews. Note passenger car obstructing half of foot path in upper left of photo. Weeds in upper left, covering tracks. High voltage wires overhead. Very close to train in center of photo. This view is to the east from Compton Avenue Bridge and shows a part of Rankin yard. This is called East Rankin, and is where the Missouri Pacific and the Pennsylvania trains are...
Dates: 1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXI: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards

View in West End of Rankin Yard, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents Tracks converging to left, over grown with weeds in left of photo and all along lead. Engine pulling train in yard to the switch lead. Note position of switch man preparing to pass signals on left side of engine. Also standing on roadway used by supply trucks to deliver supplies to workmen. Other tracks at right of photo for spotting cars for loading or very close clearance. Note building in right center causing view to be obstructed. Note in center at left of photo blocking view of engine...
Dates: 1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXI: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards

View to the Southwest from 17th Street, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents Showing express yards. Note close clearance of cars. Obstruction on platforms limiting vision. Weeds covering tracks in center of photo. Debris all over this yard in and on and around tracks. This is a very congested yard and sometimes has as many as seven to ten engines working this yard. This is a push, pulled and spotting of cars for express and mail. This view is to the west from 16th Street. This is referred to as the 17th Street yard, or the mail, baggage, and express yards. There is...
Dates: 1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXI: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards

View to North from 17th Street, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents

Showing, in part, the mail house and express house. Obstruction by building at right. Debris in yard; weeds on tracks. Close clearance between cars and platforms. Curvature of rails all to right, but converging tracks run from left into all leads.

Dates: 1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXI: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards

View to the Northeast from 21st Street Bridge, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents Showing congested movements of trains in and out of Union Station. Note curvature of tracks, ground signals, overhead signals and hand signals prevail here. Note positions of engines as to who can best observe signals. Engines moving in and out of this yard and at times is heavily congested and takes two pairs of eyes to observe conditions to front and rear of engines. This view is also to the east from atop the 21st Street viaduct. Notice the movements of trains and engines in the center of...
Dates: 1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXI: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards

View to the North from 21st Street Bridge, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents Showing curvature of tracks all to left side of engine (fireman's). Notice switchman passing signal on fireman's side of engine while engineer is on the alert for any movements from the tracks on his side of engine (right side of photo). Debris, weeds and objects near on and about tracks (left side of photo); also obstruction by building at upper left. Workmen engaged on tracks in upper left. People using walkway in upper center of photo can be best observed by fireman on diesel engine. Also...
Dates: 1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXI: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 21
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Heavily traveled crossing over which all switching is done. The truck is crossing the tracks even though a train is approaching from the upper yards.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series II: Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M): Boston Terminal Yards / Mystic Wharf Yard, Charlestown, Boston Terminal

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 20
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Picture shows a close view of the scrap car, where the debris lays alongside of the car. This constitutes a safety hazard because debris can cause train derailments. Also, the close clearance the of the building means that the signal passing happens on the fireman's side.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series III: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O): Chicago Division / Industrial siding, Victor Gasket Co

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the File: To the extreme right is the building where clerical staff is housed; the smaller building in the center houses the teletype clerk. Between the two buildings is the interchange track, and the pit track runs in front of the larger building. This is where CNJ interchanges cars with the PRR. The upper yard is in the center background of the photograph. The tracks leading from the center of the photograph to the lower left leads to the lower yard where inbound trains are switched for interchange...
Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series IV: Central Railroad of New Jersey: Buttonwood Yards and Wilkes-Barre Interchange / Buttonwood Yard Interchange between Pennsylvania Railroad and Central Railroad Co of New Jersey

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the File:

This shows the interchange between the PRR and the CNJ (also pictured in exhibit Z-1), looking northwest. There are no crossing gates, lights, bells, or other warnings for the public. The track in the foreground is the D&H interchange into Buttonwood Yard. The tracks in the background are leads to and from the the lower and upper yards where switch engines are workinf 24 hours a day. Parked automobiles create close clearance for railroad cars.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series IV: Central Railroad of New Jersey: Buttonwood Yards and Wilkes-Barre Interchange / Buttonwood Yard, Public Crossing

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