Cook County, Illinois Historic photos, documents, and people

Illinois Central R.R., freight cars at the South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. The C & O and Nickel Plate Railroads lease part of this terminal from the I.C.R.R.

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

The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the foreground are old cars used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help; Chicago, Ill.

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.

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.

Passengers, who have struck up a friendship on a Greyhound bus enroute from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Saint Louis, Missouri telling "moron" jokes

Passengers, who have struck up a friendship on a Greyhound bus en route from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to St. Louis, Missouri, telling "moron" jokes

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

Passengers who have struck up a friendship on a Greyhound bus enroute from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Saint Louis, Missouri telling "moron" jokes

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