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Chicago, Illinois. In the waiting room of the Union Station (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1943
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Chicago, Illinois. Model airplanes decorate the ceiling of the train concourses at Union Station (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1943
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 57 favorites
- 73,297 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 122 favorites
- 68,163 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 170 favorites
- 67,268 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Illinois Central R.R., freight cars in South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[Matsuda (Waseda University, Japan) is safe; a re-enactment of a play from a baseball game with Chicago University, Marshall Field, May 1911] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill (LOC)
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- 62,291 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Apparatus used at the laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yards for analysing solutions of metals used in locomotives and the railroad plant, in general, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 59,659 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 170 favorites
- 59,091 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 157 favorites
- 58,064 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Workers at the roundhouse of the C & NW RR Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 97 favorites
- 57,114 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 165 favorites
- 54,955 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Arch at Twelfth St., Chicago, President Abraham Lincoln's hearse and young ladies (LOC)
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- 8 comments
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- 54,648 views
- Date taken: 1865
- Date uploaded: 2009-02-04
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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards (LOC)
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- 85 favorites
- 53,867 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 53,682 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chic
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- 3 comments
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- 53,301 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Santa Fe R.R. freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 50,989 views
- Date taken: 1939
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C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)
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- 50,290 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 49,754 views
- Date taken: 1939
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James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Wm. Lorimer (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1910
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Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street locomotive shops (LOC)
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- 14 favorites
- 48,685 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 17 favorites
- 48,459 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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G.O.P. Mascot (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1915
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View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill., Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 44,481 views
- Date taken: 1939
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John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 25 favorites
- 44,341 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 58 favorites
- 43,998 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 27 favorites
- 43,590 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 43,000 views
- Date taken: 1939
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General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 46 favorites
- 42,846 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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[John J. Evers, Chicago Cubs, baseball card portrait] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-01
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