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:
- 5003pb58f012
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- RDG
- Internal Number:
- #11
- File Name:
- 5003pb58f012.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Reading Company
Railroad tracks
Locomotives
Railroads--Freight
Railroad yards - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- View of Rutherford yards showing piles of debris between tracks dumped by impact of cars rolling off hump. Trainmen favor walking on side with least obstacles with no regard to which side of locomotive signals are passed.
- 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:
- 12
- 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.