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Box 61

 Container

Contains 320 Results:

Derailed Box Cars, Delaware Avenue at Reed Street, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents Exhibits F-41 through F-41d show two cars which became derailed on Delaware Avenue at Reed St. Derailments, such as this, are a frequent sight on Delaware Avenue. The cobblestones on Delaware Avenue are marked from many previous derailments. Note how the traffic becomes snarled thereby making train operation even more dangerous. Note in photograph F-41d, cars in the distance have been cut away from the derailed cars which will be left standing until re-railing operations can be started....
Dates: 1960

Midvale Yards, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1960

Midvale Yards, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1960

Engine Terminal Lead, Penn Coach Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1960

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

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

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

Three Leads at the Head of the Classification Box Car Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 85
Scope and Contents Shows the three leads at the head-end of the classification box car yard shown in the last exhibit. Note the curves on all three of the lead tracks. These curves frequently make it necessary for the fireman to take signals form the ground crew and, at all times, make it necessary for him to keep a sharp lookout. There are three merchandise piers located on the water front as well as warehouses down in these yards. Usually two or three crews works in this yard on each shift afternoon and...
Dates: 1960

Pull in Track which are Empty & Main Yard at Lambert Point's Main Coal Yard, 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 86
Scope and Contents Taken from Barney Yard (the hump yard). 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...
Dates: 1960

View of the Barney Yard (The Hump Yard), 1960

 File — Box: 61, Folder: 87
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1960