Head of the Government Yard or Box Car Yard
- Title:
- Head of the Government Yard or Box Car Yard
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk Terminal and Yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Vick, Simeon G.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 36.875596,-76.317623
- Latitude:
- 36.875596
- Longitude:
- -76.317623
- Site:
- Lambert's Point Yard
- Location:
- Norfolk, VA
Lambert's Point Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb61f084
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- NW
- Internal Number:
- #9
- Exhibit Number:
- B-9
- File Name:
- 5003pb61f084.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
Railroad cars
Railroad tracks
Railroad yards
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroads--Freight
Railroads--Signaling - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Shows a view of the head of the government or box car yard. This yard has about 80 tracks, holding about 1600 cars. All of the tracks here are curved continuously. there may be as many as three different crews switching on three different lead tracks for the three main merchandise piers here. These piers handle as many as seven or eight ships. In addition, there are warehouses further up in the yard for handling commodities for overseas shipment or transfer. Because of these congested conditions, it is necessary to maintain a sharp lookout at all times for men on the ground, and other train movements; and, because of the continuous track curvatures, the firemen must frequently take signals form the ground crew and relay them to the engineer.
- 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:
- 61
- Folder:
- 84
- 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.