Box 61
Contains 320 Results:
Derailed Box Cars, Delaware Avenue at Reed Street, 1960
Midvale Yards, 1960
Photographs F-42 through F-42d were taken in Midvale yard, looking to the east. Note the curvature of the tracks. ENgines working th yard are all headed east, placing the curves on the fireman's side of locomotive. Close clearances and obstructions throughout yard.
Midvale Yards, 1960
Photographs F-42 through F-42d were taken in Midvale yard, looking to the east. Note the curvature of the tracks. ENgines working th yard are all headed east, placing the curves on the fireman's side of locomotive. Close clearances and obstructions throughout yard.
Engine Terminal Lead, Penn Coach Yard, 1960
View looking south from engine terminal lead in the right foreground. Southward movements on No. 20 post office tracks are visible on the fireman's side only when the front end of the locomotive reaches the clearance point shown here due to supporting girders and enclosures similar to that on right, the end of which can be seen on the left border of picture. All tracks under this structure are wired with 11,000 volts overhead wires.
Coal Hoppers in Classification Yard, 1960
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.
West End of Barney Yard (The Hump Yard) and Main Coal Yard at Lambert's Point, 1960
Main Line Leads at the Head of Lambert Point Yards, 1960
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.
Three Leads at the Head of the Classification Box Car Yard, 1960
Pull in Track which are Empty & Main Yard at Lambert Point's Main Coal Yard, 1960
View of the Barney Yard (The Hump Yard), 1960
Shows the trains of coal cars preparatory to their being dumped on the coal docks in the center background. Cars are ridden down off this hump to the coal pier by brakemen or car riders. To the left is a portion of the main coal yard. These piers dumped 18 million tons of coal in the year 1959, and some years have dumped more.