Uploads from The Library of Congress, tagged delano, with geodata

General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

nobody@flickr.com (The Library of Congress) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:13:44 -0800

Delano, Jack,, photographer.

General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill.

1942 Dec.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Proviso Yards.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad shops & yards
Snow
United States--Illinois--Melrose Park

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-1 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34629

Call Number: LC-USW36-535

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

nobody@flickr.com (The Library of Congress) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:16:53 -0800

Uploads from The Library of Congress, tagged delano, with geodata

General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street locomotive shops (LOC)

General view of part of classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard (LOC)

Tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR (LOC)

Tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Sam Cell, working on the truck of a car at the rip tracks of C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

General view of one of the departure yards at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

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)

Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR. (LOC)

Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)