Another, more remote, possibility is that this short train is dead-heading east (without passengers) toward the Kenwood line. Apparently the CTA still ran old cars on the main line at that time, although I don’t remember that. Instead, your “Stock Yards” train is on the main line heading east/south. What you claim to be a Stock Yards shuttle is not on the Stock Yards tracks, which ran directly west from the switch building at the end of the platform. Hoffman Photo) Our resident South Side expert M.
In the distance, that may be some additional Stock Yards cars being stored on the otherwise unused center track. Looking west from the passenger overpass at Indiana Avenue on July 3, 1950, we see an 8-car train of steel cars, and a Stock Yards shuttle train. PS- You might also like our Trolley Dodger Facebook auxiliary, a private group that now has 482 members. This video features streetcars and elevated trains in Chicago, Milwaukee, and New York City, mostly from the early 1950s– and originally shot on high quality 16mm film: Once the Congress rapid transit line opened in 1958, this section of “L” was taken out of service and by the early 1960s it had been torn down.Ĭooler weather has moved into the Chicago area, and along with it, we have a Fall Harvest of classic rail images for you today, including many by three of the greatest railfan photographers of the 1950s– Clark Frazier, Truman Hefner, and William C. This was not related to expressway construction, since the “L” at this point was north of there. But it is certainly after the the other picture in this post, taken at much the same location, since the building at rear, or part of it, was in the process of being torn down.
This picture of the old Met bridge over the Chicago River is undated, but probably dates to circa 1952-55 based on the type of red border Kodachrome mount it is in.
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