About This Item


  • TitleRed warning light
  • Call NumberTRAN_0607
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (TRAN 0603, TRAN 0604), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three images. Caption (0603): "Operating new red warning light for use on rear end of Long Island Rail Road trains is conductor Irsing C. Potter, shown here in the vestibule of test car as he manipulates lever to move red lens into place over rear headlight. The light will be visible to following trains more than a mile away." 0604: Shown here are George Schaller (left) and Carl Reinke, car repairmen, at work on the lever-operated movable red lenses which will be installed on the headlights of all motor cars used on the head and rear ends of trains. ..." 0607: "In this picture, the [red warning] bullseye light is hung in place by A. G. Nelson, coach cleaner, before the train leaves Richmond Hill Yard, under the supervision of J. M. Nichol (left), foreman ..."
  • Date1950, 1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0604: 8 x 10 in. On verso: Brooklyn Eagle stamp; dates stamped: 0603, 0604: Dec, 19, 1950; 0607: May 15, 1951. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • SubjectRailroads -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroads -- Safety measures -- New York (State) -- New York ; Railroad trains -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationRichmond Hill (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.