View to West from 21st Street Bridge
- Title:
- View to West from 21st Street Bridge
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Neupert, Raymond A.
- Date:
- 1961
- Coordinates:
- 38.627156,-90.20792
- Latitude:
- 38.627156
- Longitude:
- -90.20792
- Site:
- Union Station
- Location:
- St. Louis, MO
Union Station - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb58f026
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- TRRA
- Internal Number:
- #42
- Exhibit Number:
- P-16
- File Name:
- 5003pb58f026.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Railroad tracks
Railroad cars
Railroad passenger cars
Bridges (built works)
Railroad yards
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroads--Employees
Railroads--Signaling
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Shows part of Missouri Pacific freight yard. Main lines in center of photo used for inbound and outbound passenger trains. Curvature of tracks on fireman's side of engine (upper left) Overhead bridge (Jefferson Ave) there is a grade here. Note converging tracks (upper right) at rear end of passenger cars. Workmen on ground walking toward engine, unseen by Engineer. This view is to the west from the 21st Street bridge and shows the movement of an engine and two cars (upper left of photo). The fireman has the view of ground personnel here and the position of the switches. Upper right part of photograph shows the congestion of passenger cars on storage tracks.
- 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:
- 26
- 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.