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Box 60

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 3
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Passenger train standing within the confines of the North Western passenger terminal. The engine is an EMD GP-7, it is pulling a passenger train. This passenger terminal as 16 tracks controlled by an interlocking plant at Clinton and Lake Streets.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 4
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Pulling a passenger train. Manufacturer: EMD, Model GP 7. Same train as exhibit E-1 from the opposite side. Note here the platform with passengers and employees standing in the extreme right hand corner of the picture toward the center.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 5
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Portion of main line between Western Avenue and the Kedzie Interlocking plant. The right is CNW's coach yard. Note the pile of ties and also lengths of rails extending along the right of way here.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 6
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Shows a portion of the Kedzie Avenue interlocking plant and shows the various types of interlocking plant and he various types of interlocking switches. Covered wagon type locomotive in the center of the picture is standing at the interlocking dwarf signal preparatory to passing into or through the Kedzie Avenue interlocking plant. This signal is on the left hand side and must be observed by the fireman.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 7
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Main line through Chicago suburb, picture is of a North Western main line near Oak Park, Illinois. Note the loose rails and ties on the right side of the picture where workmen are laying a new track. Constant lookout here is necessary for workmen.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 8
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Passenger train headed west, pulling out of the station. The picture itself is looking east. The train is on the 19th Avenue crossing, one of the main streets in Melrose Park.

Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the File: Passenger train on westbound CNW main line approaching an interlocking signal which is on the left side of the engine. This signal governs all westbound main line movements through this interlocking plant, regardless of whether the movement be passenger train, or yard movement destined for the Proviso yards. In this situation, with the cab of the engine forward, the signal will pass from the view of the engineer when it is within 30 feet or so of the engine. Without a fireman on the left...
Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the File: North Western main line track and the Maywood lead track, which a section crew is working on with a Burro Crane. Industry in in upper left hand corner is National Malleable and Steel Castings Corporation. Constant lookout is necessary here because of workmen in the area and debris scattered long the right of way and the lead, including scraps of rail, ties, and other impediments. High speed passenger trains as well as freight service operate on the same tracks and because of the impediments...
Dates: 1960

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 File — Box: 60, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the File: Passenger train operating westward along the main line approaching the east end of Elmhurst, Illinois; the Poplar Avenue crossing is down the track, where an automobile is driving across the tracks. The train has just moved around a slight curve. Note the tail end of the curve towards the middle of the picture. In the center of the picture in the distance is an overhead signal marking the Poplar Avenue crossing. Note also in the left of the picture the housing and play equipment for children...
Dates: 1960