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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 137
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Passenger terminal, electrified. Note overhead wires and close clearances of tracks. Railway Express warehouse to right of frame.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXIV: Washington Terminal Co. Railroad: Washington D.C. Union Station and Potomac Yards / Washington DC Union Station, Passenger Terminal

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 138
Scope and Contents From the File:

Passenger terminal, electrified. Note overhead wires and close clearances of tracks. Railway Express warehouse to right of frame.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXIV: Washington Terminal Co. Railroad: Washington D.C. Union Station and Potomac Yards / Washington DC Union Station, Passenger Terminal

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 139
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Washington DC Union Station, passenger terminal in background

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXIV: Washington Terminal Co. Railroad: Washington D.C. Union Station and Potomac Yards / West Yard of Washington Terminal Railroad

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 140
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H Bridge, southbound, showing West Yard B&O Side Tracks 1 to 9, E Bridge Tracks 12 to 15 inclusive. K interlocking tower in left background. Picture also indicates the large amount of interlocking switches and cross-overs in this area. All movements through this location are governed by K interlocking tower.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXIV: Washington Terminal Co. Railroad: Washington D.C. Union Station and Potomac Yards / View from H Bridge in West Yard, Looking South

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 141
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Shows train movements in and about the K interlocking tower, and H and J bridges. The B&O, PRR, RFP, C&O, and Southern railroads use these facilities for their operation in the terminal area. (similar to A-22a)

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXIV: Washington Terminal Co. Railroad: Washington D.C. Union Station and Potomac Yards / Washington DC Union Station, Passenger Terminal

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 142
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B&O Unit #1450, EMD E-8-A

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXIV: Washington Terminal Co. Railroad: Washington D.C. Union Station and Potomac Yards / Washington DC Union Station, Passenger Terminal

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 File — Box: 53, Folder: 196
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Shows the signals at the right of the locomotive in a slow-clear position. Location is northbound tube with fixed signal in a slow clear position, which is observed by firemen who in return, relays signal indication to enginemen.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXXIV: Washington Terminal Co. Railroad: Washington D.C. Union Station and Potomac Yards / Under the Union Station Concourse Lower Level, North and Southbound Tubes

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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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