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Box 62

 Container

Contains 232 Results:

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the File:

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

Dates: 1960

Item 1: Click for Image

 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

Item 1: Click for Image

 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

Freight Classification Yard

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 64
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of photographs of the Union Pacific's facilities in Pocatello, Idaho and surrounding areas. The UP is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans. The Union Pacific Railroad system is the largest in the United States and it is one of the world's largest transportation companies. These photographs were not submitted to the Commission and as such do not have identifying exhibit numbers and...
Dates: 1960-1961