Melrose Park, Illinois Historic photos, documents, and people

A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.

General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yards, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

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

Painting a car at the repair or "rip" tracks at North Proviso(?), C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Car jacked up for repairs on the repair tracks, North Proviso, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

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

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

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