The cars shown in the picture approached this crossing from the left side of the locomotive in the direction the locomotive is headed. (Note the absence of warning signs or flasher lights for the protection of the vehicular traffic in a south movement).
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U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs #5003 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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