Night Shot Showing Switchman Riding Gondola Car
- Title:
- Night Shot Showing Switchman Riding Gondola Car
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Southern Pacific Railroad: Coast Division, San Francisco
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE)
- Photographer:
- Vickers, Sanford
- Coordinates:
- 37.774688,-122.396952
- Latitude:
- 37.774688
- Longitude:
- -122.396952
- Site:
- Mission Bay Yards
- Location:
- San Francisco, CA
Mission Bay Yards - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb62f027
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- SP
- Internal Number:
- Ex. 11
- Exhibit Number:
- Q-11
- File Name:
- 5003pb62f027.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad yards
Railroad tracks
Locomotives
Railroads--Signaling
Railroads--Employees - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Exhibit Q-11 was taken at night in the Mission Bay yard. In Exhibit Q-11, the switchman standing on the gondola car on the fireman's side has just passed a signal to the fireman. Signals were passed here on the fireman's side because of the track curvature. Note also on the left hand corner of the picture is another yard locomotive headed in the opposite direction. That engine on the left is headed towards the crossover at the lower right hand portion of the picture where a man is standing and from the engine on the right- that is engine No. 1358- only the fireman sitting on the left side of the cab can observe that locomotive as it approaches the same track at the crossover.
- 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:
- 62
- Folder:
- 27
- 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.