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Box 53

 Container

Contains 394 Results:

Hazard Wire Works Industrial Siding, 1960

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 93
Scope and Contents

Another view of hazard Wire Works lead. Track 4 (track curving between the two buildings) is partially blocked by a parked automobile. Switches are submerged in standing water, creating work hazard. Weeds and debris also cover the tracks.

Dates: 1960

Hazard Wire Works Industrial Siding, 1960

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 98
Scope and Contents

Storage track on the PRR for Hazard Wire Works. Track on right is the oil siding; track on left with car on it is storage track. Notice the condition of the ties and the water and oil between the tracks. This results from lack of care for the tracks and creates a hazardous working environment.

Dates: 1960

CNW Main Line, 1960

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

CNW main line westbound to right, PRR to left. Approaching Western Avenue Interlocking Plant.

Dates: 1960

Kaplan Junk Yard, Yard #4, and Yard #2 from IHB Hill, 1960

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 87
Scope and Contents

Cars were burned here and the smoke would obscure the vision of train operators (same location as exhibit E-24). IHB is the reporting mark for Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad.

Dates: 1960

Mystic Wharf Yard, Charlestown, Boston Terminal, 1960

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents

Heavily traveled crossing over which all switching is done. The truck is crossing the tracks even though a train is approaching from the upper yards.

Dates: 1960

Freight Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 53, Folder: 190
Scope and Contents

Shows how the tracks converge at this junction. The cut of cars being pulled to the east (on the right side of the photograph) are being pulled out of the main line of the GNRR. The GNRR mainline tracks are those in the middle.

Dates: 1960