Southern Pacific El Paso Up Town Yards A-B-C and D and Yard Masters Tower Office
- Title:
- Southern Pacific El Paso Up Town Yards A-B-C and D and Yard Masters Tower Office
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Southern Pacific Railroad: Pacific Division, El Paso Yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Harp, Autry A.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 31.773850,-106.468082
- Latitude:
- 31.773850
- Longitude:
- -106.468082
- Site:
- Uptown Yard
- Location:
- El Paso, TX
Uptown Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb63f074
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- SP
- Internal Number:
- #8
- Exhibit Number:
- W-8
- File Name:
- 5003pb63f074.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad yards
Railroad tracks
Railroad cars
Railroad crossings - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- The view overlooks the ice dock, which is in the right center portion of the picture, and the A and B yards which are to the left. Track 18 on the right of the ice dock. This track does not appear in this photograph but it does appear in the previous picture, W-7. Picture W-8 shows how the ice dock track on the left curves at the upper end in the center of the picture. This track, No. 17, is the track immediately to the left of the ice dock and at the center background of the picture. These tracks join together and further on beyond the overpass tracks 17 and 18 converge with track 16 in the B yard. Track 17 and 18 converge with track 16 in the B yard beyond the overpass. Looking east shows engine en route, coming through tower 47 to ice dock and yard master tower office.
- 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:
- 74
- 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.