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Box 62

 Container

Contains 232 Results:

Two Yard Engines are Working to One Lead

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents In exhibit Q-9, two yard locomotives are working side by side on the same lead track. The engineer on the locomotive on the left cannot possibly see the locomotive on the right of the picture because of the hood of the locomotive and the engineer on the locomotive on the left must and does, therefore, rely on his fireman sitting on the left hand side of the cab, to observe such other train movements in the yard. Note also in this picture the extreme track curvatures in all directions, both...
Dates: 1960-1961

Night Shot of Locomotives

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of photographs of the Southern Pacific's facilities in San Francisco, California. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 34, are referred to by the letter Q in testimony, and were taken by S. Vickers. Mr. Vickers was employed as a locomotive engineer by the Southern Pacific, and was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division 161. The Southern Pacific was a class I railroad in the western United States. It covered a...
Dates: 1960-1961

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 104
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of photographs of facilities in and around New York City. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 7, are referred to by the letters AA in testimony, and were taken by H.H. Franklin. Mr. Franklin worked as an engineer on passenger trains for the LIRR and was the general chairman of the BLF&E on that railroad. The LIRR is a railroad located on Long Island in New York State. Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since...
Dates: 1960-1961