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Box 60

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents From the File: Orderly view of the Taylor and Rockwell Streets area, with the Taylor Street viaduct in the center of the picture. Various industries are served along the tracks here on the left by the North Western, and on the right by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Signals must frequently be passed on fireman's side because of close clearances. Industries are Wheeling Corrugating Industry and a foundry (located toward the edge of the picture). Close clearance on the viaduct, indicated by the black and white...
Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents From the File:

Taken at a point just to the right of where exhibit E-29 was taken. Shows more clearly the close clearances. Track in the foreground is Track No. 1 and leads to the Wood Street yards.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents From the File: Easterly view of the Chicago and North Western's Wood Street yard. The tracks in the lower left hand portion of the picture, where you can see the roof of a boxcar, are the switch leads for the B&O Robey Street Yard (see B&O Chicago photographs by J.B. Redmond). The two tracks further to the right are the B&O main lines. In the center of the picture is the Chicago and North Western yard, which used to be called the Bull Run. Note the reverse ladder tracks here which mean that...
Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 116
Scope and Contents From the File: CNW Unit #1057 Fairbanks Morse shoving three cars into the yard. Same general area as E-31 but looking to the west instead of the east. At the extreme upper left corner of the picture is a Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy passenger train. In the left corner of the picture is a Northwestern Fairbanks-Morse locomotive shoving three cars into the Northwestern Wood Street yard. Across the top of the cars being shoved is a portion of the Northwestern's potato yard, and beyond that is the Midland...
Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 99
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The curved tracks in the center of the picture are part of the wet end of the Portlock yard. This area is usually very heavily congested, especially at night. I have seen as many as seven or eight crews working the end of this yard; road crews leaving from the point and yard crews going back and forth all of the time. Because of this congestion, constant lookout is necessary on both sides of the engine..

Dates: 1960