Powelton Avenue Yard
- Title:
- Powelton Avenue Yard
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Pennsylvania Railroad: Philadelphia Division
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Bartley, Edward J.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 40.017611,-75.162714
- Latitude:
- 40.017611
- Longitude:
- -75.162714
- Site:
- Midvale Yards
- Location:
- Philadelphia, PA
Midvale Yards - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb55f129
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- PRR
- Internal Number:
- #47 115
- Exhibit Number:
- F-47
- File Name:
- 5003pb55f129.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Philadelphia High Line
30th Street Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Railroad passenger cars
Railroad tracks
Bridges (built works)
Railroad stations - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- View of Powelton Avenue Yard, Midvale Yards, looking eastward toward 30th Street Station. Two main tracks parallel fence in foreground curving at right of picture and entering upper level of station. Signal Bridge is visible (to the right and below "Bulletin" sign) governing movements into station. West Philadelphia, elevated "high line" crossing at approximately the center of the 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:
- 55
- Folder:
- 129
- 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.