Stamford Passenger and Freight Yard
- Title:
- Stamford Passenger and Freight Yard
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: Yards and Tracks from New York City to Boston, Massachusetts
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Guinea, Edgar R.
- Date:
- 1961
- Coordinates:
- 41.050287,-73.532631
- Latitude:
- 41.050287
- Longitude:
- -73.532631
- Site:
- Stamford Passenger and Freight Yard
- Location:
- Stamford, CT
Stamford Passenger and Freight Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb56f081
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- NH
- Internal Number:
- (26) #32 Ex.25
- Exhibit Number:
- D-25
- File Name:
- 5003pb56f081.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
Railroads--Freight
Railroad tracks
Railroad stations - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- On lower left is platform of freight house. At the west end of the yard there are packing houses which receive cars daily that have to be switched across the street. The street crossing is protect neither by lights nor gates. Note the curvature of all tracks int his yard. Overhead wires make it impossible for switch crews to operate on top of cars to pass signals.
- 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:
- 56
- Folder:
- 81
- 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.