View from 21st Street Bridge looking Northeast
- Title:
- View from 21st Street Bridge looking Northeast
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Neupert, Raymond A.
- Date:
- 1961
- Coordinates:
- 38.627156,-90.20792
- Latitude:
- 38.627156
- Longitude:
- -90.20792
- Site:
- Union Station
- Location:
- St. Louis, MO
Union Station - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb53f053
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- TRRA
- Internal Number:
- #33
- Exhibit Number:
- P-1
- File Name:
- 5003pb53f053.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Train Shed
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Railroad tracks
Railroad cars
Locomotives
Railroad passenger cars
Railroad switches
Railroad stations
Railroads--Employees
Railroads--Signaling
Railroads--Buildings and structures - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Showing Union Station and overhead signal bridges (Right photo); also engine moving under bridges. Note direction of engine in about station. Engines are all heading north. Again tracks curving to left best observed by fireman. Note movement of train at left side of photo, also of workman on tracks. Note condition of weeds covering tracks from left to right center of photo. Also again of water hydrants in center of photo by weed, causing close clearance between tracks. Ground signals upper center. Red and amber aspects only best observed from left side of engine. This view is to the north, atop the 21st Street viaduct. In the center of the picture note the curvature of tracks to the left. All engines operating in and around Union Station head into the station. Therefore all tracks in this picture are observed by the fireman. Signals are passed by hand on the fireman's side. There are also ground signals which the fireman observes. Note the workman in the left-center of the photograph. There are always employees working around this plant. It is essential to have a fireman to help keep these persons under observation. There is also debris in and around these tracks.
- 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:
- 53
- Folder:
- 53
- 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.