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File — Box: 62, Folder: 14

Scope and Contents From the File: Aerial photograph of the Lamberts Point Yard. The two piers in the lower left foreground are coal piers where coal is dumped directly into docked ships. Looking at the tracks in the picture from left to right, those on the far left, which is the south end of the yard, are the empty yard tracks for departing trains. The tracks, beginning about 12 or 15 tracks from the left, are those in the Barney or Hump yard. In this yard, coal cars are pushed up to the piers for dumping. Further to the...

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XVIII: Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk Terminal and Yards / Aerial photograph of Lambert's Point Yard

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File — Box: 62, Folder: 15

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NW Unit No. 35: Manufacturer: ALCO Model: T6. One unit handling empty coal car in yard No. 4 (western yard)

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XVIII: Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk Terminal and Yards / NW Unit No. 35 and VGN coal car

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File — Box: 62, Folder: 16

Scope and Contents From the File: A fuller view of the main coal yard at Lambert's Point. The coal cars here are a portion of the 7,000 to 8,000 cars this yard ordinarily holds. The empty tracks in the foreground are the pull-in tracks. There are four or five coal testing companies that have employees in the main coal and Barney Yards. These men are constantly climbing cars for coal samples to be tested. There is also a considerable number of car riders in the Barney yard who ride coal cars to the piers. Sometimes there are...

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XVIII: Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk Terminal and Yards / Pull in Track which are Empty and Main Yard at Lambert Point or Coal Yard

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File — Box: 62, Folder: 17

Scope and Contents From the File: The tracks shown on the left side are the west side main line and pull-in tracks which run parallel to the Portlock yard. 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...

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XVIII: Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk Terminal and Yards / View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive

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File — Box: 62, Folder: 2

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Shows a portion of the Kedzie Avenue interlocking plant (see Exhibit E-5 for a closer view).

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series V: Chicago & North Western Railway: Chicago Terminal Division, Proviso Yards / CNW main line approaching Kedzie Avenue Interlocking Plant

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File — Box: 62, Folder: 3

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The yard has 29 tracks plus three main line tracks (Nos. 19, 20, and 30). This is the point of origin of the humping operations in Proviso. Various industries are served here, including General Foods Corporation.

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series V: Chicago & North Western Railway: Chicago Terminal Division, Proviso Yards / North End of Proviso Yard No. 9

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File — Box: 62, Folder: 4

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CNW Unit #1649, EMD GP-7. Shows the south end of Yard 9 and indicates the curvatures of all tracks as well as gives some indication of the number of workmen in the area. Note also the rocks, stones, pieces of wood, and scrap metal that are scattered throughout the yard, which make it easier for men on the ground. Also shows the 20 main and 19 main lines.

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series V: Chicago & North Western Railway: Chicago Terminal Division, Proviso Yards / South End of Proviso Yard No. 9

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File — Box: 62, Folder: 5

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Shows the lower level hump in operation and gives a picture of the classification tracks in the yard. Large number of tracks in the background of the photograph. There are 62 classification tracks.

Dates: 1960

Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series V: Chicago & North Western Railway: Chicago Terminal Division, Proviso Yards / Eastward Below Crest of Hump, Yard No. 5