View of Wood Street Yards
- Title:
- View of Wood Street Yards
- 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:
- 41.860842,-87.67834
- Latitude:
- 41.860842
- Longitude:
- -87.67834
- Site:
- Wood Street Yards
- Location:
- Chicago, IL
Wood Street Yards - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb60f031
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- CNW
- Internal Number:
- #31
- Exhibit Number:
- E-31
- File Name:
- 5003pb60f031.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Robey Street Yards
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Railroad passenger cars
Railroad tracks
Railroad yards
Railroads--Equipment and supplies
Railroads--Signaling
Railroads--Employees
Railroads--Maintenance and repair
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroads--Freight
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Easterly view of the Chicago and North Western's Wood Street yard. The tracks in the lower left hand portion of the picture, where you can see the roof of a boxcar, are the switch leads for the B&O Robey Street Yard (see B&O Chicago photographs by J.B. Redmond). The two tracks further to the right are the B&O main lines. In the center of the picture is the Chicago and North Western yard, which used to be called the Bull Run. Note the reverse ladder tracks here which mean that regardless of which way an engine in headed, signals at one time or another will have to be given on the fireman's side. Note also the curvature of the tracks in the right center background of the picture.
- 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:
- 31
- 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.