View to the Southwest from 17th Street
- Title:
- View to the Southwest from 17th Street
- 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:
- 38.627156,-90.20792
- Latitude:
- 38.627156
- Longitude:
- -90.20792
- Site:
- Union Station
- Location:
- St. Louis, MO
Union Station - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb53f045
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- TRRA
- Internal Number:
- #25
- Exhibit Number:
- P-13
- File Name:
- 5003pb53f045.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Railroad tracks
Bridges (built works)
Railroad cars
Railroad passenger cars
Express service
Railroad yards
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroads--Freight
Railroad stations - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Showing express yards. Note close clearance of cars. Obstruction on platforms limiting vision. Weeds covering tracks in center of photo. Debris all over this yard in and on and around tracks. This is a very congested yard and sometimes has as many as seven to ten engines working this yard. This is a push, pulled and spotting of cars for express and mail. This view is to the west from 16th Street. This is referred to as the 17th Street yard, or the mail, baggage, and express yards. There is very close clearance in this yard and all switches are called blind switches due to the fact that they have no lights. One of the blind switches is in the lower left center. The firemen must help observe the line-up on these switches. Upper center of photograph shows a workman walking around the end of a car. Personnel in and about this yard, and express on ramps (right center of photo) are a constant danger that must be observed by the engine crew in this yard to prevent many serious injuries. Tracks curve to the left and right here and at times either the engineer or the fireman alone will have the view.
- 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:
- 45
- 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.