Passenger Cars Being Turned on Wye
- Title:
- Passenger Cars Being Turned on Wye
- Collection:
- U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs
- Set:
- Southern Pacific Railroad: Coast Division, San Francisco
- Creator:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE)
- Photographer:
- Vickers, Sanford
- Coordinates:
- 37.733795,-122.446747
- Latitude:
- 37.733795
- Longitude:
- -122.446747
- Location:
- San Francisco, CA
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 5003pb62f035
- Railroad Reporting Mark:
- SP
- Exhibit Number:
- Q-18
- File Name:
- 5003pb62f035.jpg
- Work Type:
- b&w photograph
- Subject:
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad tracks
Locomotives
Railroad cars
Railroads--Employees - Measurement:
- 16x20 (inches)
- Description:
- Exhibit Q-18 shows passenger cars being turned around by a yard engine on the "Y." Passenger cars being turned around by a yard engine on the "Y", All trains going into the Terminal must go around the "Y" and in order to go around the "Y" the yard crews must go over four or five public grade crossings as well as a Western Pacific train crossing over which the Western Pacific also carriers out switching operations.
- 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:
- 62
- Folder:
- 35
- 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.