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Box 55

 Container

Contains 316 Results:

Midvale Yard, Facing East, 1960

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 157

Rutherford Roundhouse and Engine House, 1960

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of photographs of the Reading Railroad's facilities in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. These photographs were not submitted to the Commission and as such do not have identifying exhibit numbers. It is possible that these were taken by J.H. Ritchie as part of documenting types of engines, but that is a tentative identification. The Reading Company, a multifaceted industrial corporation with diverse interests such as shipbuilding, coal mining and iron making, operated...
Dates: 1960

Lead Tracks at Harrisburg, Pa, 1960

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 109
Scope and Contents

View of leading railroad tracks at Harrisburg. Color light signal masts can be seen at center of picture and low home color light signals are seen at right.

Dates: 1960

Tank Car Loading Facilities, 1960

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 150
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of photographs of the Norfolk and Western's facilities in Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 39, are referred to by the letter B in testimony, and were taken by S.G. Vick. Mr. Vick was employed as an engineer in yard service by the N&W and was the local chairman for the BLFE. The N&W was a class I railroad operating in the southern United States. The N&W operated both passenger and...
Dates: 1960