Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and Pacific Coast Main Lines at Argo Yard
- Title:
- Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and Pacific Coast Main Lines at Argo Yard
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Great Northern Railway: Everett and Seattle, Washington
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Zumwinkle, V.S.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 47.608013,-122.335167
- Latitude:
- 47.608013
- Longitude:
- -122.335167
- Site:
- Argo Yard
- Location:
- Seattle, WA
Argo Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb63f062
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- GN
- Internal Number:
- #52
- Exhibit Number:
- J-42
- File Name:
- 5003pb63f062.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Pacific Coast Railroad Company
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad tracks
Railroad crossings
Railroads--Buildings and structures
Railroads--Signaling
Bridges (built works)
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Taken at Argo, located approximately four miles south of the Seattle House Yard and nine or ten miles south of Interbay Yard. All of the tracks are main lines of the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and Pacific Coast Railroad. Freight and passenger trains, as well as yard engines of the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern, move over these tracks. This is one of the busiest locations in the Seattle area.
- 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:
- 63
- Folder:
- 62
- 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.