Approach to Blind Grade Crossing
- Title:
- Approach to Blind Grade Crossing
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Southern Pacific Railroad: Western Division, West Oakland Yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE)
- Photographer:
- Vawter, Howard M.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 37.801515,-122.299736
- Latitude:
- 37.801515
- Longitude:
- -122.299736
- Site:
- Oakland Yard
- Location:
- Oakland, CA
Oakland Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb54f113
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- SP
- Internal Number:
- #10 R-10(a) Ex. 10a 211
- Exhibit Number:
- R-10
- File Name:
- 5003pb54f113.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad tracks
Railroad crossings
Railroad yards
Railroads--Signaling - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Locomotive comes out between buildings over a heavily used street, protected only by crossing sign. Engineer must be looking for signal from switch ground men. Group of pictures show how a movement is and industrial are of Oakland yard require a look out in both directions on both side of a locomotive at all time.
- 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:
- 54
- Folder:
- 113
- 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.