Skip to main content

Archives at Cornell

Box 53

 Container

Contains 394 Results:

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photo taken facing south (opposite view to exhibit Z-6). This track is used to place cars at industries in the area. Many unprotected public crossings. This track leads to the Lehigh Valley main line. Parked automobiles foul tracks and create hazards.

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photograph shows foggy condition that occurs frequently in Wyoming Valley area. This weather condition can slow down yard movement because of low visibility.

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 92
Scope and Contents From the File:

From left to right: Old Main, tracks 2 and 4. Automobiles frequently block the tracks. This is where switching is performer for the industry. These is debris on the tracks, and close clearance for the cars.

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 93
Scope and Contents From the File:

Another view of hazard Wire Works lead. Track 4 (track curving between the two buildings) is partially blocked by a parked automobile. Switches are submerged in standing water, creating work hazard. Weeds and debris also cover the tracks.

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 98
Scope and Contents From the File:

Storage track on the PRR for Hazard Wire Works. Track on right is the oil siding; track on left with car on it is storage track. Notice the condition of the ties and the water and oil between the tracks. This results from lack of care for the tracks and creates a hazardous working environment.

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents From the File:

CNW main line westbound to right, PRR to left. Approaching Western Avenue Interlocking Plant.

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 87
Scope and Contents From the File:

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.

Dates: 1960

Texas & Pacific Freight Yard Looking West, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents Shows the Texas and Pacific freight yard at El Paso,Texas. Yard engines operating in this yard are continually shoving, kicking or dropping cars over this public crossing of Tornillo Street. When doubling freight trains into this yard, the yard engine is headed west and the crossing is not protected by members of the ground crew. This yard is frequented both day and night by transients and children. Residents are on both sides of yard as shown in picture. Pictures #17, 18, 19, 20 [n.b.:...
Dates: 1961

East End of the Switching Lead on the Texas & Pacific El Paso Yard, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1961