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Box 56

 Container

Contains 356 Results:

East End of Passenger Station Yard Looking West Toward Station, 1961

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 107
Scope and Contents

Also shows entrance to Water St Yard and mainline to station. All engines head east here, therefore they are all backup movements. Engine headed east; New Haven Station and east end passenger and mail loading tracks shown in background. Overhead wires carry 11,000 volts.

Dates: 1961

Belle Dock Yard, West End, 1961

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 108
Scope and Contents

West end of yard. Engines headed west. Curving tracks and close clearance. Trucks loading and unloading. Sharp lookout on both sides of engine needed.

Dates: 1961

Belle Dock Yard, West End, 1961

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 109
Scope and Contents

West end of yard. Engines headed west. Curving tracks and close clearance. Trucks loading and unloading. Sharp lookout on both sides of engine needed.

Dates: 1961

Belle Dock Branch, East Street to Belle Dock Yard, 1961

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 110
Scope and Contents

Belle Dock Branch. Industrial Switching on both sides. New Haven Gas Co. plant on right; numerous sidings and crossovers; entrances to numerous industrial plants crossing tracks unprotected by lights or bells

Dates: 1961

Entrance To Cedar Hill Freight Yards and Engine House, 1961

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 111
Scope and Contents

Unit No. 645 shown in picture about to transfer drag of cars to Water St Yard. Numerous engines moving to and from engine house being made up for Oak Point, Bay Ridge, and Maybrook, New York. Through and local freight trains departing and arriving daily. Main Line to Boston on right

Dates: 1961

Lower East End of First Street Yards, 1961

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 113
Scope and Contents

Very heavy truck traffic due to large number perishable goods on cars. Very close clearance on all sides and sharp curves. Most signals given on Fireman's side. Numerous crossings in the yard are not protected by gates, lights or bells.

Dates: 1961

Grand Central Terminal, Passenger Platform, 1961

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 116
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of photographs of the New York, New Haven and Hartford's facilities along the northeast corridor between New York and Boston. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 46, are referred to by the letters D and D/R in testimony, and were taken by Edgar R. Guinea. Mr. Guinea was employed as an engineer by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The New Haven was a railroad that operated in northeastern United States between New York and...
Dates: 1961