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:
- 5003pb60f116
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- CNW
- Internal Number:
- #32
- Exhibit Number:
- E-32
- File Name:
- 5003pb60f116.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Locomotives
Railroad cars
Railroad tracks
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroad yards
Railroads--Freight
Railroads--Signaling
Railroads--Employees
Railroad passenger cars
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- CNW Unit #1057 Fairbanks Morse shoving three cars into the yard. Same general area as E-31 but looking to the west instead of the east. At the extreme upper left corner of the picture is a Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy passenger train. In the left corner of the picture is a Northwestern Fairbanks-Morse locomotive shoving three cars into the Northwestern Wood Street yard. Across the top of the cars being shoved is a portion of the Northwestern's potato yard, and beyond that is the Midland warehouse and other buildings which run along Western Avenue. To the right of these tracks, switches along the yard lead to the Chicago and Northwestern main lines running through the Wood Street district. The automatic block signal in the center of the picture shows the B & O main line tracks which come in at the extreme lower right-hand portion of the picture. The boxcar in the foreground from the roof of which this picture was taken is spotted on the B & O track at Robey Street, now called Damon Avenue. The curvatures on the Northwestern tracks are apparent. (This photograph was taken in the same location as Exhibit G-2 in the B&O Chicago photographs by J. B. Redmond).
- 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:
- 116
- 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.