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Box 61

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 File — Box: 61, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents From the File:

Engines operate in either direction

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series X: Great Northern Railway: Minneapolis Junction / Transfer Movement Around Curve at Minneapolis Junction

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 File — Box: 61, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents From the File:

Note close clearance and debris scattered along track by crew building new bridge.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series X: Great Northern Railway: Minneapolis Junction / East End of Great Northern Union Yard

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 File — Box: 61, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents From the File:

Just opposite William Bro.s Co.; movement around curve and over crossovers between 14th Avenue and Minneapolis Junction (like in exhibits L-4 and L-13).

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series X: Great Northern Railway: Minneapolis Junction / Cars Moving in Both Directions

Item 1: Click for Image

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents From the File:

Movement around curve and over crossovers between 14th Avenue and Minneapolis Junction (like in exhibits L-4 and L-13).

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series X: Great Northern Railway: Minneapolis Junction / Cars Moving in Both Directions

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 File — Box: 61, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents From the File:

Engines work and are headed in either direction. Tracks in the Union Yards converge at the right- hand portion of the picture with the trackage of the Chicago Northwestern yard.

Dates: 1960
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5003 P, U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs / Series X: Great Northern Railway: Minneapolis Junction / East End of Great Northern Union Yard

Coal Hoppers in Classification Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 78
Scope and Contents

Taken from the hump on the west end of the main yard at Lambert's Point. This is a classification and storage yard which holds 7,000 or 8,000 cars of coal at a time.

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

Soda Yard and East End of Lambert's Point Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 79
Scope and Contents

A portion of the Soda Yard and east end of Lambert's Point Yard. Cars here are classified from both ends of the Lambert's Point main coal yard. The picture gives some idea of the curvature and close clearances of the tracks in this yard area.

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

West End of Barney Yard (The Hump Yard), 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 80
Scope and Contents Shows in the left center the west end of the Barney Yard and, on the right, the west end of the Lambert's point main yard. The fireman is needed here to relay signals to the engineer because of the curvatures in all of these tracks. In humping operations, because of the length of the train and the curvatures of the track , the head-end brakeman stations himself somewhere near the middle of the train in order to relay signals from the brakeman and conductor, who are riding on the rear of 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

West End of Barney Yard (The Hump Yard) and Main Coal Yard at Lambert's Point, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 81
Scope and Contents Shows in the foreground the tracks at the west end of the Barney Yard and, in the background, the middle of the main coal yard at Lambert's Point. The little blips in the background are, of course, the ends of the coal cars and there is here a virtual sea of coal at all times. Note: this yard is congested all the time. There are many curves first to the right and then to the left. This requires engineer and fireman to be on the alert. All the crews that operate in yard service on both ends...
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

Main Line Leads at the Head of Lambert Point Yards, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 82
Scope and Contents

Shows the main lines and the leads at the head of the Lambert's Point yard. There are about 16 crossovers in this yard, six of which are in this vicinity, and all of them are used very frequently. Because there are four crews working on the hump at the piers through these leads and crossovers, a sharp lookout must be maintained at all times. To the right are two or three storage yard leads.

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

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