Cut of cars being shoved from Halstead Yard
- Title:
- Cut of cars being shoved from Halstead Yard
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Chicago River and Indiana Railroad: Chicago Industries and Union Stock Yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Anderson, Donald H.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 41.801504,-87.639064
- Latitude:
- 41.801504
- Longitude:
- -87.639064
- Site:
- Halstead Street Yard
- Location:
- Chicago, IL
Halstead Street Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb56f145
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- CRI
- Internal Number:
- #23 32
- Exhibit Number:
- K-23
- File Name:
- 5003pb56f145.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Chicago River and Indiana Railroad Company
Railroad cars
Railroad tracks
Railroads--Signaling
Railroads--Freight
Railroad crossings
Locomotive firemen
Railroads--Employees
Railroad switches
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Shows, on the left, a cut of cars being shoved from the Halsted Street yard. You can see the fireman's head sticking out of the locomotive in the center background. He is the lookout for clearances, position of switches and oncoming traffic while crossing over two main lines to perform work on the south side of the railroad.
- 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:
- 145
- 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.