Kedzie Avenue Interlocking Plant
- Title:
- Kedzie Avenue Interlocking Plant
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Chicago & North Western Railway: Chicago Terminal Division, Proviso Yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE)
- Photographer:
- Plock, H.G.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 41.89398,-87.883555
- Latitude:
- 41.89398
- Longitude:
- -87.883555
- Site:
- Proviso Yards
- Location:
- Chicago, IL
Proviso Yards - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb60f006
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- CNW
- Internal Number:
- #5
- Exhibit Number:
- E-5
- File Name:
- 5003pb60f006.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Kedzie Avenue interlocking plant
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Railroad cars
Railroad tracks
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroads--Signaling
Railroads--Freight
Railroad switches - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Shows a portion of the Kedzie Avenue interlocking plant and shows the various types of interlocking plant and he various types of interlocking switches. Covered wagon type locomotive in the center of the picture is standing at the interlocking dwarf signal preparatory to passing into or through the Kedzie Avenue interlocking plant. This signal is on the left hand side and must be observed by the fireman.
- 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:
- 60
- Folder:
- 6
- 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.