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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
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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• 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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  • 1 comment
  • 85 favorites
  • 53,867 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard] (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 104 favorites
  • 49,662 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard (LOC)

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  • 8 comments
  • 140 favorites
  • 47,392 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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