Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Tracks, 1906 - Porter, Indiana : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Tracks, 1906 - Porter, Indiana / Shook Photos
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| 説明 | Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Looking WestPorter, IndianaDate: July 11, 1906Source Type: PhotographPublisher, Printer, Photographer: Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RailroadPostmark: Not applicableCollection: Steven R. ShookRemark: A July 11, 1906, view of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway looking west (later known as the New York Central Railroad) at Porter, Indiana.The Michigan Central Railroad tracks cut across from left to right in this photograph in front of the switch tower. The tracks curving off toward the bottom right of the photograph are the Pere Marquette Railway tracks. The Michigan Central's switch tower is visible to the right. Beyond the switch tower is the factory and stacks of the Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company's Porter Yard 3.At 6:23 pm on February 27, 1921, where these three rail lines converge (center of photograph), 37 individuals were killed when a westbound New York Central No. 151 (Interstate Express) traveling at 50 mph plowed through and obliterated a passenger car of Michigan Central No. 20 (Canadian) traveling north (to the right in the photograph). The Michigan Central Railroad was determined to be at fault in this rail disaster for failing to follow signal warnings.Present day Wagner Road is visible, with crossing warning sign at left, along the bottom of this photograph.The following description of an image nearly identical to the one appearing here is provided in McLellan and Warrick's book The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway:"This scene looking west at Porter, Indiana at the Michigan Central crossing shows the Pere Marquette tracks at right. The Pere Marquette used the Lake Shore tracks to Pine after December 15, 1903, for their connection into Chicago. Until 1903, the nearest approach into Chicago by the Pere Marquette was New Buffalo, Michigan, where the Michigan Central took its cars into Chicago."The following news item concerning the switch tower seen in this postcard was published in The Tribune, on March 9, 1894:"The new interlocking switch at Porter is now in operation. It is a beauty. Forty levers handle the forty tracks and switches in the yards of the Lake Shore and the Central roads, and all switching must now be done from the tower. The day for making flying switches in the yards at Porter is now gone. The guards against accident are so numerous and so perfect that it seems impossible that one can now happen. The tower is large and well arranged, and a wonderful improvement over the old one and its system."Sources:McLellan, David, and Bill Warrick. 1989. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. Polo, Illinois: Transportation Trails. 208 p. [see p. 153]The Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; March 9, 1894; Volume 10, Number 48, Page 1, Column 5. Column titled Porter Pointers. On the Movements and Diongs of Its People. Including the Gossip and News of That Enterprising Town."Copyright 2012. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook. |
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| 撮影者 | Shook Photos , Moscow, Idaho, USA |
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