CNW Passenger train headed west
- Title:
- CNW Passenger train headed west
- 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:
- 41.890230,-87.854833
- Latitude:
- 41.890230
- Longitude:
- -87.854833
- Site:
- Melrose Park Depot
- Location:
- Melrose Park, IL
Melrose Park Depot - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb60f009
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- CNW
- Internal Number:
- #8
- Exhibit Number:
- E-8
- File Name:
- 5003pb60f009.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Locomotives
Railroad cars
Railroad passenger cars
Railroad tracks
Railroads--Signaling - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Passenger train on westbound CNW main line approaching an interlocking signal which is on the left side of the engine. This signal governs all westbound main line movements through this interlocking plant, regardless of whether the movement be passenger train, or yard movement destined for the Proviso yards. In this situation, with the cab of the engine forward, the signal will pass from the view of the engineer when it is within 30 feet or so of the engine. Without a fireman on the left looking out from his side of the engine, the engineer can never be certain that a signal has not changed after it has passed from his view.
- 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:
- 9
- 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.