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Box 53

 Container

Contains 394 Results:

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 89

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 90

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

Texas & Pacific El Paso Yard Looking Northeast from the Main Track, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 62
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1961

Looking Northeast from the Right Side of Old Main Industrial Lead in Zone 3 of the Texas & Pacific El Paso Yard, 1961

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1961