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Easterly view of the Chicago and North Western's Wood Street yard. The tracks in the lower left hand portion of the picture, where you can see the roof of a boxcar, are the switch leads for the B&O Robey Street Yard (see B&O Chicago photographs by J.B. Redmond). The two tracks further to the right are the B&O main lines. In the center of the picture is the Chicago and North Western yard, which used to be called the Bull Run. Note the reverse ladder tracks here which mean that regardless of which way an engine in headed, signals at one time or another will have to be given on the fireman's side. Note also the curvature of the tracks in the right center background of the picture.