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date. Beyond that, the subject and con- tent of the pictures is pretty much self- evident. What is in the pictures is sim- ply
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perhaps ponder and pick apart for de- tails, and, definitely, to enjoy. The subjects and views are wide- ranging with some roads covered more extensively than others. Given the rail- road scene in Chicago in those days, it is amazing how much is here. Natural-
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ly, the biggest roads had the most trains, so there are more pictures of them. He probably had a few favorites, too (who doesn’t?), but he stopped by the outlying stations of a few of the smallest and, in our day, less known railroads. Such surprises are fun. The railroads are covered in clock-
wise order starting at the Illinois Cen- tral’s lakefront station and looping around to the North Western and the north side of Union Station and the Mil- waukee Road. The photos are primarily taken on busy, multiple track main- lines, so don’t go looking for switchers tucked into steel mills or working man- ufacturing districts. Such buildings, however, appear in the background of many pictures and are a strength of the book. With the exception of the early- 1950’s Prudential building towering over the downtown IC freight yard, Chicago’s skyline and the tracks lead- ing to the stations surrounding the Loop were built up in the teens and twenties, and things looked much the same in 1931, or 1981, or longer. Be- cause so much railroad photography was done in Chicago, these landmarks are as familiar to those who were not raised there as to fans who were. One can get a good idea of what fa- mous and ordinary heavyweight pas- senger trains and freight trains of the era looked like as they did their work,
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