View from Marietta Road Bridge Looking North Towards Howell Interlocking Plant
- Title:
- View from Marietta Road Bridge Looking North Towards Howell Interlocking Plant
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Southern Railway: Inman Yards and Atlanta Terminal
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Whitworth, T.A.
- Coordinates:
- 33.784578,-84.415674
- Latitude:
- 33.784578
- Longitude:
- -84.415674
- Site:
- Howell Industry Tracks, Inman Yards
- Location:
- Atlanta, GA
Howell Industry Tracks, Inman Yards - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb58f063
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- SOU
- Internal Number:
- #3
- Exhibit Number:
- U-3
- File Name:
- 5003pb58f063.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Essex Wire Corporation
Armour Comapny
Southern Railway (U.S.)
Industries (organizations)
Railroad tracks
Railroad cars
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroads--Freight
Railroads--Signaling
Railroad switches - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Another view from Marietta Road Bridge. Howell Tower can be seen in background (white building in upper center of photo), located in a triangle of Southern tracks and a loop of L&N and Seaboard tracks. L&N tracks on the right and Southern on the left. The Southern's main line is used from here south to the Terminal Station by the Seaboard Railway. This area is know as the Howell Interlocking Plant. There are eight sets of overhead signal plus many dwarf signals on the ground.
- 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:
- 63
- 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.