23 photos
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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
- 130 favorites
- 70,454 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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- 16 comments
- 261 favorites
- 66,163 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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- 9 comments
- 96 favorites
- 56,813 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 3 comments
- 101 favorites
- 50,989 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[In Nordlandsbaad (i.e., Nordlandsbåt), Nordland, Norway] (LOC)
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- 16 comments
- 113 favorites
- 48,154 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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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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- 1 comment
- 8 favorites
- 45,122 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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- 3 comments
- 47 favorites
- 38,679 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Trucks unloading at the inbound freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 41 favorites
- 38,588 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A east bound Union Pacific railroad freight train waiting in a siding, Alray, Calif. Coming up through Cajon Pass. The Santa Fe tracks are used by the Union Pacific as far east as Daggett, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 28 favorites
- 34,726 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Night view of part of the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 44 favorites
- 34,250 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 13 favorites
- 33,726 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. west bound freight stopping for water, Melrose, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
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- 35 favorites
- 33,430 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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The regular tracks of the South Yards, at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 12 favorites
- 31,977 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sulphur vat 60 feet high, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 35 favorites
- 31,923 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Santa Fe R.R. freight train rounding a curve between Ash Fork and Gleed, Arizona (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 12 favorites
- 31,293 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to be the largest covered freight house in the world. C&NWRR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 13 favorites
- 30,836 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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After the ore is weighed in the "Hewlett" [i.e. "Hulett"] machine it is dropped in the waiting hopper cars below; Pennsylvania R.R. iron ore docks, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 23 favorites
- 29,745 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. freight train rounding a curve between Ash Fork and Gleed, Arizona (LOC)
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- 6 favorites
- 26,748 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Pennsylvania R.R. [Railroad] ore docks, unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 12 favorites
- 26,629 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Loading MEADE (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 2 favorites
- 13,234 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-20
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Loading MEADE - League Isl'd. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
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- 7,395 views
- Date taken: 1913
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-20
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Waldeck Rousseaux (Fr.) [ship] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
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- 6,217 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-04-28
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