Pull in Track which are Empty & Main Yard at Lambert Point's Main Coal Yard
- Title:
- Pull in Track which are Empty & Main Yard at Lambert Point's Main Coal Yard
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk Terminal and Yards
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
- Photographer:
- Vick, Simeon G.
- Date:
- 1960
- Coordinates:
- 36.875596,-76.317623
- Latitude:
- 36.875596
- Longitude:
- -76.317623
- Site:
- Lambert's Point Yard
- Location:
- Norfolk, VA
Lambert's Point Yard - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb61f086
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- NW
- Internal Number:
- #11
- Exhibit Number:
- B-6
- File Name:
- 5003pb61f086.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Coal
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
Shipping
Railroads--Freight
Railroads--Employees
Mines and mineral resources
Railroad cars
Railroad tracks
Railroad yards - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Taken from Barney Yard (the hump yard). A fuller view of the main coal yard at Lambert's Point. The coal cars here are a portion of the 7,000 to 8,000 cars this yard ordinarily holds. The empty tracks in the foreground are the pull-in tracks. There are four or five coal testing companies that have employees in the main coal and Barney Yards. These men are constantly climbing cars for coal samples to be tested. There is also a considerable number of car riders in the Barney yard who ride coal cars to the piers. Sometimes there are ship personnel near the east end of the main coal yard. There are also car repairers, clerks, roundhouse personnel and other regular yard employees scattered throughout the Lambert's Point yard. Engine crews must be and are on the alert continuously for these men. The Lambert's Point yard has many curves--first to the right and then to the left--which also require the engineman and the fireman to be on the alert at all times. Because of the heavy tonnage being handled, two units are in operation on all crews.
- 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:
- 61
- Folder:
- 86
- 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.