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Box 62

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Contains 232 Results:

Railway Turntable

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 116
Scope and Contents

Annotation on photograph: "West from 152nd Street Bridge. Cleve. O. C.L.C." with a hand-drawn compass rose.

Dates: 1960-1961

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

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

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