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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
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
Copyright: 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 [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: 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.
These are freight tracks embedded in the street, not trolley tracks. They are standard gauge, whereas all trolley tracks in Philly are broad gauge. Another clue that these are freight tracks and not trolley tracks is the switch: the point is missing, but if this were trolley tracks, there would be no switch point on this side; only on the other side of the track. (See note above.)
Taken on the 10xx block of Noble Street, Philadelphia.
Bi-State Development (BSD) hosted Freight Summit 2016 on April 27, which served as the official launch of the St. Louis Regional Freightway, BSD’s newest enterprise aimed at capturing a share of the significant increase in freight volume expected over the next 25 years.