San Pedro to SantaAnita
Arcadia, California — 4 April, 1942. Japanese Americans from the San Pedro Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) station arrived at the Santa Anita Race Track to await internment processing. They lived here at t... More
Milwaukee Class A Hiawatha 1942
Postcard photo of a Milwaukee Road Class A (A-2) streamlined locomotive.
Boylston station plan, 1942
1942 plan of Boylston station, corrected to 1949
Construction of Key System bridge, 1942
Construction of the Key System bridge over the Southern Pacific mainline in Albany in 1942. Because new materials were not available, the trestle was built on wood salvaged from the former Key System pier, whi... More
Shipyard Railway train testing on Ninth Avenue, December 1942
The first day of Shipyard Railway train testing on Ninth Avenue in Berkeley - December 1, 1942
Shipyard Railway track construction on San Pablo Avenue, 1942
Shipyard Railway track construction on San Pablo Avenue in 1942
Rowes Wharf Station (13083218675)
Rowes Wharf station in March 1942, four years after closure and shortly before being torn down for steel for the war effort. A sign for the Boston, Revere Beach Lynn railroad - itself closed over a year before... More
A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse 1a34621v
Title: A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill.
A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR1a34637v
Title: A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR 1a34622v
Title: A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
A train being pushed over the hump at the Proviso yard 1a34634v
Title: A train being pushed over the hump at the Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
A train (or cut) being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hump ...
Title: A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hump. A brakeman rides each train to signal the engineer in the locomotive at the rear; Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
A train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR1a34639v
Title: A train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern ...
Title: A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern ...
Title: A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern ...
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's Proviso yard. Chicago, Illinois, December 1942.
A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR1a34598v
Title: A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
A young worker at the C & NW RR1a34599v
Title: A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.
Amarillo Rail Yard 1942a
ATSF rail yard in Amarillo, Texas. Photographic negative copied from a Kodachrome transparency. Photo cropped from original.
C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard 1a3...
Title: C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard1a34677v
Title: C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
C&NW 400 Locomotive 1942
Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago and North Western Railway's E-4 class "400" fleet of locomotives lined up for coal and water at a coaling station.
C&NW coaling station 1942
Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and North Western Railway yards, Chicago, Illinois.
C and N RR Chicago
General view of Proviso Yard, one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Illinois.
C&NWRR Proviso yard fsac.1a34627u
General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Illinois.
Car jacked up for repairs on the repair tracks, North Proviso1a34640v
Title: Car jacked up for repairs on the repair tracks, North Proviso, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
Champion-coal-cleaning-plant-pa1
The Champion No. 1 coal cleaning plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac.1a34676u reproc...
Chicago and North Western Railway locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill.
Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac.1a34676u-BW
Chicago and North Western Railway locomotive shops, Chicago, Ill.
CNW Streamliners
Chicago and Northwestern Railway locomotive shop at Proviso Yard, near Chicago, Illinois. Several early streamliners are there, including one of M-10003 through 6 and what looks like several early E-units. On... More
CNW yard, Chicago
A railroad yard in Chicago, Illinois, (Proviso Yard) operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway.
Colorado & Southern 71 1941
The Old 71 engine of the Colorado and Southern Railroad, which carried ore and passenger cars from Denver to "the richest square mile on earth."
Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR1a34596v
Title: Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer
Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad y...
Title: Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR 1a34625v
Title: General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR1a34647v
Title: General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classific...
Title: General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yards, Chicago, Ill.
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards 1a3...
Title: General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.
General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR (i.e....
Title: General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR1a3467...
Title: General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
General view of one of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern (i.e....
Title: General view of one of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] railroad, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Nor...
Title: General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] Railroad, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR1a34627v
Title: General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classifica...
Title: General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill.
General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR ...
Title: General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill.
Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso1a34654v
Title: Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops1a34603v
Title: Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.
Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard 1a34623v
Title: Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train... More
In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad1a...
Title: In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill.
Internment
Los Angeles, California. Japanese Americans going to Manzanar gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station. (April 1942)[59]. Japanese Americans boarding a train bound for one of ten American concen... More
Jack Delano - L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse...
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard
Jack Delano - James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR
James Lynch, a roundhouse worker at Proviso Yard, Chicago, C & NW RR
Jack Delano - Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street sh...
Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill. Medium: 1 transparency : color. Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-1 Reproduction Numb... More
John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard1a34595v
Title: John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather out... More
L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Provis...
Title: Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard
Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR 1a34613v
Title: Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad, Chicago, Ill.
Locomotive ICRR LOC det.8d23306
Chicago, Illinois. Engine taking on coal at an Illinois Central Railroad yard
Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Nort...
Title: Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill
Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water 1a34615v
Title: Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station1a34...
Title: Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.
Locomotives-Roundhouse2a
Colour adjusted version of Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg which is a cleaned up version of Image:Locomotives-Roundhouse.jpg. Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the ... More
Locomotives-Roundhouse
Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards.
Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification ya...
Title: Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard worker... More
No Known Restrictions Freight Cars in Chicago by Jack Delano, 1942 (LO...
Believed to be in Public Domain From <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html">Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collections</a>. More on copyright: <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/19... More
On the 'RIP' tracks (Repair In Place), an Illinois Central employee ja...
On the 'RIP' tracks (Repair In Place), an Illinois Central employee jacks up a gondola to swap out a truck during November, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. Jack Delano photo.
One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad 1a34616v
Title: One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill.
Painting a car at the repair or rip tracks at North Proviso 1a34633v
Title: Painting a car at the repair or "rip" tracks at North Proviso(?), C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
Pullman porter making an upper berth aboard the Capitol Limited bound ...
Title: Pullman porter making up an upper berth aboard the "Capitol Limited," bound for Chicago, Illinois Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer Date Created/Published: 1942 Mar. Medium: 1 negative : sa... More
Railroad-Shopmen-1942
Railroad Shopmen (Machinists) working in a shop owned by the Illinois Central Railroad, 1942.
Repair tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern R.R.--1a34689v
Title: Repair tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern R.R.
Roundhouse LOC fsa.8d23254
Roundhouse
Roundhouse LOC.fsa.8d23258
Roundhouse
Roundhouse LOC.fsa.8d23259
Roundhouse
Roundhouse LOC.fsa.8d23261
Roundhouse
Russellevacuation 4
Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Leaving for Owens Valley.
Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded 1a34606v
Title: Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR
Shopmen-Working-1942
Railroad Shopmen overhauling an engine, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Dec. 1942.
Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler 1a34604v
Title: Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street locomotive shops
Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office 1a34624v
Title: Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.
The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard1a34649v
Title: The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the foreground are old cars used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help; Chicago, Ill.
The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the ...
Title: The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the foreground are old cars used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help; Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transpare... More
The regular tracks of the South Yards, at C & NW RR1a34646v
Title: The regular tracks of the South Yards, at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso 1a34620v
Title: The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North Weste...
Title: Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Train going over the hump at C & NW RR1a34642v
Title: Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR1a34643v
Title: Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR1a34644v
Title: Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North W...
Title: Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR1a34641v
Title: Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.
Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods 1a3...
Title: Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill.
Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR1a34638v
Title: Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.