View to Southeast from East End of Rankin Yard
- Title:
- View to Southeast from East End of Rankin Yard
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Neupert, Raymond A.
- Date:
- 1961
- Coordinates:
- 38.625535,-90.224232
- Latitude:
- 38.625535
- Longitude:
- -90.224232
- Site:
- Union Station, Rankin Yard
- Location:
- St. Louis, MO
Union Station, Rankin Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb53f043
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- TRRA
- Internal Number:
- #23
- Exhibit Number:
- P-20
- File Name:
- 5003pb53f043.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Railroad tracks
Railroad cars
Locomotives
Bridges (built works)
Railroad passenger cars
Railroad switches
Railroad yards
Railroads--Freight
Railroads--Employees - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Showing curvature of rails to left. Note movements of two trains on same lead. Workmen using footpath must be patrolled by engine crews. Note passenger car obstructing half of foot path in upper left of photo. Weeds in upper left, covering tracks. High voltage wires overhead. Very close to train in center of photo. This view is to the east from Compton Avenue Bridge and shows a part of Rankin yard. This is called East Rankin, and is where the Missouri Pacific and the Pennsylvania trains are made up and switched out. The movements of two engines at the upper center, the closeness of the cars on the left of the picture and the ground personnel walking on the footpath give some idea of the dangers always present here. Again, all tracks curve to the left when you leave the yard and to the right when entering the yard. The fireman has to observe the switches and other movements in the back-up move as the engineer receives the signals on his side. The fireman also has to be on the alert for trains coming from the east as one is doing in this picture.
- Cite As:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs #5003 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
- Box:
- 53
- Folder:
- 43
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the "U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs Collection" (Kheel Center collection: #5003 P) is believed to be in the public domain, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [https://www.library.cornell.edu/about/inside/policies/public-domain]. These images have been digitized from items in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library. More information about the physical collection can be found here: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.