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.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole Street, working as a switchman at Proviso...
Title: A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR Caboose 12010
Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR Caboose 12432
C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
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, railroad worker cultivating the small Victory garden1a34683...
Title: C & NW RR, railroad worker cultivating the small Victory garden in the Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump1a34686v
Title: C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden1a34684...
Title: C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden 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 and N RR Chicago
General view of Proviso Yard, one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Illinois.
C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill.1a34682v
Title: C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.
C&NWRR Proviso yard fsac.1a34627u
General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Illinois.
Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR1a34665v
Title: Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, 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
CNWRIP Tracks
General view of part of the rip tracks at Chicago and North Western Railway Company's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
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.
Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification y...
Title: Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. General view of Proviso yard
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 departure yards at C & NW RR1a34664v
Title: General view of one of the departure yards at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
General view of part of classification yard at C & NW RR1a34659v
Title: General view of part of classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northweste...
Title: General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. In the background is the coal chute and roundhouse
General view of part of the rip tracks at C & NW RR1a34658v
Title: General view of part of the rip tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
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.
Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso1a34654v
Title: Greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse at Proviso (?) yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
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
Jack Delano - C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt ca...
Chicago & North Western Railway, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
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 - Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip ...
Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
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
John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Provis...
Title: John Sabados washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Prov...
Title: Joseph Klesken washing up after a day's work at the rip tracks at Proviso yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. Medium: 1 transparency : color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a34671 (digital file fro... 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
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
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard 1a34668v
Title: Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW ...
Title: Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
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
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.
Proviso hump towerman
Chicago and North Western Railway towerman R. W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park near Chicago, Illinois.
Repair tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern R.R.--1a34689v
Title: Repair tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern R.R.
Sam Cell, working on the truck of a car at the rip tracks of C & NW RR...
Title: Sam Cell, working on the truck of a car at the rip tracks of C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
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.
Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR1a34656v
Title: Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR1a34657v - crop
Cropped image of ("Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.") Medium: 1 transparency : color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsac-1a34657 (digital file from original transparency) LC-... More
Switchman throwing a switch at Chicago and Northwest Railway Company's...
Switchman throwing a switch at Chicago and Northwest Railway Company's Proviso yard, Chicago, Illinois.
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.
Tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard1a34663v
Title: Tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
Tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR1a34662v
Title: Tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard1a34666v
Title: Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to be the largest covered freight house in the world. C&NWRR, 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.
Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR (i.e. Chica...
Title: Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard1a34600v
Title: Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
The regular tracks of the South Yards, at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard...
Title: The regular tracks of the South Yards, at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso1a34650v
Title: View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill. Brakeman is signaling with a red flare and the train is going by during exposure
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso1a34651v
Title: View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill.
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso1a34688v
Title: View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, at twilight, Chicago, Ill.
View in a departure yard at Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's...
View in a departure yard at Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's Proviso yard at twilight. Chicago, Illinois.
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North Wester...
Title: View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso(?) yard, at twilight, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house1a34648v
Title: View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill.
View of a classification yard at C & NW RR 1a34631v
Title: View of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
View of a classification yard at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North W...
Title: View of a classification yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR (i.e. Chicago and North Western ra...
Title: Tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North Wester...
Title: View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
View of a classification yard at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North W...
Title: View of a classification yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
View of a Chicago and Northwestern (i.e. North Western) railroad freig...
Title: View of a Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Tracks at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's) Prov...
Title: Tracks at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to...
Title: Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to be the largest covered freight house in the world. C&NWRR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium:... More
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 RR's (i.e. Chicago an...
Title: Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and ...
Title: Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods fro...
Title: Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] railroad, Chicago, Ill. Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color.
William London Melrose Park near Chicago, Ill, C&NWRR 1a34672v
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's (i.e. Chicago and North Wester...
Title: View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill. Brakeman is signaling with a red flare and the train is going by during ex... More
Work goes on 24 hours a day at C & NW RR1a34635v
Title: Work goes on 24 hours a day at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.