Rutherford Yards
- Title:
- Rutherford Yards
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Reading Railroad: Rutherford Yards and Steelton Industries
- Creator:
- Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA)
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 40.262000,-76.785
- Latitude:
- 40.262000
- Longitude:
- -76.785
- Site:
- Rutherford Yards
- Location:
- Harrisburg, PA
Rutherford Yards - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb58f003
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- RDG
- Internal Number:
- #2
- File Name:
- 5003pb58f003.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Reading Company
Railroads--Freight
Railroad tracks
Railroad yards - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- View of Reading Railroad's Rutherford Yards near Harrisburg, facing east from west end of yards. Hump color light signals governing movements over hump tracks at left side of picture may be seen at left of center. Note debris spilled between tracks as a result of forceful contact of cars dropped over eastbound hump. Yard is equipped with car retarders to control speed of cards leaving hump.
- 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:
- 58
- Folder:
- 3
- 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.