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Box 56

 Container

Contains 356 Results:

Spotting a Gondola Inside the Globe Steel Company, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 133
Scope and Contents

Shows the Globe Plant at 40th and Stewart and indicates how vital it is to have a fireman on the engine. Observe the equipment lying on the ground, the little group of employees standing off in the center of the picture and the close clearances throughout. Because of the S curve, only the fireman on the left can see these men, cars, and equipment.

Dates: 1960

Spotting a Gondola Inside the Globe Steel Company, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 134
Scope and Contents

Shows cars being shoved through the Globe Steel Company building to service other plants over a public crossing. Notice the very close clearances on both sides of the track which make it imperative to maintain a watch on both sides. Since the track curves to the left, only the fireman can see ahead.

Dates: 1960

Spotting a Gondola Inside the Globe Steel Company, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 135
Scope and Contents

Shows cars being shoved through the Globe Steel Company building to service other plants over a public crossing. Notice the very close clearances on both sides of the track which make it imperative to maintain a watch on both sides. Since the track curves to the left, only the fireman can see ahead.

Dates: 1960

View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 136
Scope and Contents

Hump yard located at 4100 South Damen Avenue. It has 12 receiving tracks and 25 classification tracks. Same engine and cut of cars as exhibit K-1. The engine is now backed up to a point past the repeater board where the engineer is unable to see the signals. Only the fireman has the signals on this repeater board in view.

Dates: 1960

View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 137
Scope and Contents Shows a hump yard located at 4100 South Damen Avenue. It has 12 receiving tracks and 25 classification tracks. In this picture we see a hump engine backing out of a receiving yard with a cut of cars. Signals are taken by the fireman as he watches the board on his side. Because of the curvature of the track and the car itself, the engineer cannot see the signal board. As the train continues to back up, a repeater board comes into view which displays the signals on both sides. After passing...
Dates: 1960

View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 138
Scope and Contents Shows a hump yard located at 4100 South Damen Avenue. It has 12 receiving tracks and 25 classification tracks. In this picture we see a hump engine backing out of a receiving yard with a cut of cars. Signals are taken by the fireman as he watches the board on his side. Because of the curvature of the track and the car itself, the engineer cannot see the signal board. As the train continues to back up, a repeater board comes into view which displays the signals on both sides. After passing...
Dates: 1960

View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 139
Scope and Contents

Hump yard at 4100 South Damen Avenue. The fireman is watching the signal board as neither he nor the engineer is able to see the repeater board.

Dates: 1960

View towards the east into receiving yard, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 140
Scope and Contents

Hump yard at 4100 South Damen Avenue. Taken in an easterly direction into the receiving yard. The engine is just past the repeater board. The fireman is looking back at the board and the engineer has to look forward in the direction the train is going. He is unable to see any signals which were given on the fireman's side.

Dates: 1960

Western Avenue Bridge, fireman's side, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 141
Scope and Contents

CR&I RR Unit #8407. Taken on the Western Avenue Bridge at 3900 South Western Avenue. The fireman is giving the engineer a signal to go ahead. The engineer can't see the signal board because the signals are on the fireman's side.

Dates: 1960

Western Avenue Bridge, engineer's side, 1960

 File — Box: 56, Folder: 142
Scope and Contents

CR&I RR Unit #8407. 3900 South Western Avenue, on Western Avenue Bridge. Photograph shows an engine humping cars in an eastward direction. The view shown is a view on the engineer's side of the engine. The signals shown are not for the tracks on which the engine is located, but are the signal boards of the Baltimore and Ohio main line tracks (at right of picture). There are no signals in view from the engineer's side. All of the signals are located on the fireman's side.

Dates: 1960