Box 56
Contains 356 Results:
Spotting a Gondola Inside the Globe Steel Company, 1960
Shows cars being shoved through the Globe Steel Company building to service other plants over a public crossing. Notice the very close clearances on both sides of the track which make it imperative to maintain a watch on both sides. Since the track curves to the left, only the fireman can see ahead.
View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960
Hump yard located at 4100 South Damen Avenue. It has 12 receiving tracks and 25 classification tracks. Same engine and cut of cars as exhibit K-1. The engine is now backed up to a point past the repeater board where the engineer is unable to see the signals. Only the fireman has the signals on this repeater board in view.
View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960
View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960
View from Fireman's Side of Locomotive, 1960
Hump yard at 4100 South Damen Avenue. The fireman is watching the signal board as neither he nor the engineer is able to see the repeater board.
View towards the east into receiving yard, 1960
Hump yard at 4100 South Damen Avenue. Taken in an easterly direction into the receiving yard. The engine is just past the repeater board. The fireman is looking back at the board and the engineer has to look forward in the direction the train is going. He is unable to see any signals which were given on the fireman's side.
Western Avenue Bridge, fireman's side, 1960
CR&I RR Unit #8407. Taken on the Western Avenue Bridge at 3900 South Western Avenue. The fireman is giving the engineer a signal to go ahead. The engineer can't see the signal board because the signals are on the fireman's side.
Western Avenue Bridge, engineer's side, 1960
CR&I RR Unit #8407. 3900 South Western Avenue, on Western Avenue Bridge. Photograph shows an engine humping cars in an eastward direction. The view shown is a view on the engineer's side of the engine. The signals shown are not for the tracks on which the engine is located, but are the signal boards of the Baltimore and Ohio main line tracks (at right of picture). There are no signals in view from the engineer's side. All of the signals are located on the fireman's side.
Industrial Siding, Armour Animal Feed Plant, 1960
Tentatively identified as part of the CRI Railroad photographs. Location most likely an industrial siding in the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, which is now the New City neighborhood of Chicago.
View from Fireman's Side of Classification Track, 1960
Shows an engine shoving into a classification track. The picture is taken on the left side of the engine. As you can see, the fireman has a good view of what is ahead of him and keeps the engineer informed as to where he is going. Since the engineer is on a curve at this point, he is unable to see the tracks leading into the yard.