Box 56
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Shows the locomotive just starting down the long incline to the float. The track is overgrown with weeds which of course adds to the hazard. The small building shown in the center background of the picture is a track storage house for track material. This house is located very badly because it obstructs the view of the fireman in loading and unloading the float as the engine goes back and forth down the incline.
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Close-up view showing the ferry Pelican tied up at the Trotters Point side of the Mississippi River.
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A general view of the Robey Street Yards looking from the top of a freight car, which is on one of the switching leads into the classification yard. On the far left of the picture is a lead that goes to an industry serviced by the BOCT. The classification yards are in the left center of the photograph, and the Northwestern middle yard tracks are on the right.
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Opposite view from exhibit G-9, from across the street. It shows the gondola scrap car from other side. Notice debris on tracks and close clearance.
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Another view of the industrial switching at Cicero, IL by the BOCT. Switching is done across a public street; notice the car on the right fouling the tracks. Notice how the track continues into the building.
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A closer view of entrance to Cicero Industrial yards, looking at the grade crossing from the east (like G-12). Two streets which are intersected by an industrial track.The industrial track is protected only by a cross-arm sign (in extreme left of photograph). Heavy truck and automobile traffic.
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A picture of one of the Hotpoint Plants that is serviced by the BOCT. The gate to the plant must be opened by plant employees. Notice the "S" curve leading into plant. Fence divides BOCT industry track from CBQ tracks in left of photograph.
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Another view of the industrial switching at Cicero, IL by the BOCT. Switching is done across a public street; notice the car on the right fouling the tracks. Notice how the track continues into the building.