Series V: Chicago & North Western Railway: Chicago Terminal Division, Proviso Yards

This series consists of photographs of the Chicago & North Western's facilities in Chicago, Illinois. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 22, are referred to by the letter E in testimony, and were taken by Henry G. Plock. Mr. Plock was employed by the C&NW in the Chicago Terminal Division as an engineer in switching and transfer service in the Proviso Yards and deliveries to foreign yards. The C&NW was a class I railroad operating in the Midwestern United States, operating as far west as Wyoming. The photographs in this series document both passenger and freight service by the C&NW including run westward out of Chicago through passenger stations, passenger trains in the Chicago terminal, the intricacies of tracks crossings and junctions in Chicago, the Wood Street Yard, and some of the Proviso Yards including the Hump Yard.