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Photograph from an album compiled by James Gordon Steese who served as president of the Alaska Road Commission during the 1920s.
Collection name: James Gordon Steese Papers
Original held by: Archives and Special Collections
Institution: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, PA
Contact us at: archives@dickinson.edu
So the day after seeing 6215 in the dark and commenting how I never see it, I've caught it again in slightly improved lighting conditions.
Earthworks for the road re-alignment and new overbridge at Dashwood pass. 730S from Pines to Picton 04/05/2014
Built in 1904 in the Romanesque Revival style at the corner of Gest Street and Pearl Street (now Pete Rose Way) to house the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Freight Terminal, this building, at the time of its construction, was reportedly one of the largest freight stations in the world, standing 5 stories in height and 1,277 feet long. The building, designed by M.A. Long, consists of a limestone base, upon which the brick structure of the upper floors sits. At the fourth floor, the pilasters that begin at the limestone piers on the first floor terminate in brick corbeling, supporting arches that curve gracefully over each window bay. Above this, the fifth floor features a parapet at the top with extensive corbeling. Originally, the building housed an inbound freight station for the B & O Railroad on the first floor, with four floors of warehouse space above, and sat among a sizable rail yard that extended for several blocks. Following the movement of most rail traffic to a new yard parallel to Mill Creek during the Union Terminal project during the 1920s, which was completed in 1933, the building slowly began to decline in importance. However, it was still being utilized by the railroad when the end was truncated in the 1960s to allow for construction of the Brent Spence Bridge at the eastern end of the structure, leading to an addition being constructed on the north side of the building. In 1985, the building ceased being utilized by the railroad, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 to assist in the adaptive reuse of the building, which has since been converted into an office building with multiple tenants, as well as retail space. The building also housed the Cincinnati Children's Museum at the western end until 1997, when the building was partially flooded by the Ohio River, leading to the departure of the museum to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. The building is presently at risk under the proposed plans for a new bridge downriver of the Brent Spence Bridge to carry interstate traffic, which would lead to the demolition of a portion of the eastern end of the building, already partially truncated in the 1960s.
Freight Wagons
Place Names Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.)
Description William (Bill) Harrison with two freight wagons at Alhandra Ferry Crossing.
Source Collection Janis Bigelow Collection
Source MaterialB&W copy negative and print
Publisher-Digital Uintah County Library Regional History Center
Date-Original1920?
TypeImage
Formatimage/jpeg
Languageen
RightsDigital image, copyright 2003 Uintah County Library
Source Physical Dimensions6cm x 6cm
Archival Resolution4800 x 3400 pixels; 2500 ppi
Low-resolution800 x 600 pixels
Bit Depth8
Scanning DeviceCreo-Scitex Jazz + flatbed scanner
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Title: Freight Yard
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20434187
Date: Ca. 1961
Creator: Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA)
Image ID: 5003pb57f061
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
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