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Item
Title
Great Northern Freight Car Wreck at Interbay Yard, Seattle, Washington, circa 1965
Date(s)
- circa 1965 (Creation)
Extent
1 photograph
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Scope and content
An accident on the Interbay yard south lead tracks, at "NP Crossing", the Northern Pacific tracks cross the Great Northern tracks from left-to-right to access industries and the Navy docks. A small Northern Pacific yard is at left in front of the nine white barracks buildings; a Northern Pacific semaphore is visible at right. "G yard" is in the distance. Likely taken in the mid-1960s.
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Conditions governing access
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Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Custodial history
Ownership of Great Northern Railway subjects resides in the the Great Northern Railway Historical Society unless otherwise noted.
Immediate source of acquisition
Compiled by William Sornsin from various sources for the Great Northern Railway Historical Society, 2013
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Rules or conventions
Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013
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Name access points
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) (Subject)