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Box 62

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Contains 232 Results:

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the File:

Looking east from 14th Street and Damen (formerly Robey Street) Avenue. B&O main lines are in the center of the photograph, with ballast under the ties. St Adalbert's Catholic Church is in the background.

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 / B&O Tracks in Wood Street Yard

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the File:

CNW Unit with three cars; fireman spotting movement. St Adalbert's Catholic Church is in the background.

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 / East End of Wood Street Yard

Aerial photograph of Lambert's Point Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents 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

NW Unit No. 35 and VGN coal car, 1960

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

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

Pull in Track which are Empty and Main Yard at Lambert Point or Coal Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents 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

View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents 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

RIP (Repair In Place) Track

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Exhibit Q-2 shows the repair or rip track at the Bayshore yard. There are 100 to 150 men working in this area as to whom a sharp lookout must be maintained at all times. Because of the curvature of the tracks here in all directions, it is essential that a fireman as well as an engineer maintain lookout form both sides. This is also particularly important because of a road crossing which is noted in the foreground of the picture.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXIX: Southern Pacific Railroad: Coast Division, San Francisco

Reverse Ladder Tracks Next to RIP track

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Exhibit Q-3 was taken slightly to the left of the preceding exhibit and shows on the left center portion of the picture the reverse ladder tracks which means that regardless of which way an engine is headed signals must be given on the fireman's side. Note also on the right center the numerous crossovers and other curved tracks all of which require constant lookout on both sides of the locomotive and therefore it is necessary to have a fireman and an engineer in the cab at all times.

Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXIX: Southern Pacific Railroad: Coast Division, San Francisco

Locomotive About to Cross Western Pacific Track in Foreground

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents Exhibit Q-24 shows tracks used by three different railroads: The Santa Fe, The Western Pacific and The Southern Pacific. Exhibit Q-24 shows a locomotive about ready to leave and cross over the Western Pacific track in the immediate foreground. Note also here the number of cars and trucks along the tracks in the center background of the picture, all of which must be observed by both the fireman and engineer on both sides of the locomotive in order to maintain a safe operation. Also, when...
Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXIX: Southern Pacific Railroad: Coast Division, San Francisco

Switching Operations in Evans Avenue Area

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents Evans Avenue area in San Francisco. Unprotected grade crossing with sharp track curvature around to the left. Shows a public street crossing with two tracks and a cross-over, the cross-over coming in just where the truck in the center of the picture is standing. Public crossing is unprotected except by a cross-arm sign noted in the left center portion of the picture and it is therefore mandatory to have a fireman in the cab to maintain a lookout for traffic approaching from his side of the...
Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series XXIX: Southern Pacific Railroad: Coast Division, San Francisco

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