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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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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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- 3 comments
- 49 favorites
- 56,632 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 1 comment
- 42 favorites
- 50,290 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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A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 66 favorites
- 45,369 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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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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- 1 comment
- 23 favorites
- 43,000 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 48 favorites
- 42,138 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 49 favorites
- 41,522 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 28 favorites
- 37,848 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hump. A brakeman rides each train to signal the engineer in the locomotive at the rear; Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 22 favorites
- 37,173 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. In the background is the coal chute and roundhouse (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 34 favorites
- 36,424 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, railroad worker cultivating the small Victory garden in the Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 11 favorites
- 35,314 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 33,847 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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- 13 favorites
- 33,726 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A train being pushed over the hump at the Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 31,125 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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Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 3 favorites
- 29,426 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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