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Underground freight system
Chicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business

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Title
Underground freight system
Description
Caption: "Loaded freight train at street intersection". From text: "Chicago's great subway, or underground freight railroad, is now ready for operation. It is the most complete and extensive of any tunnel system in the world. … Every street in the down-town district, and many outside streets, are duplicated forty feet below the surface by the tunnel system. The entire subway is electric lighted, perfectly dry, clean and well-ventilated."
Date
1906  
Type
Photographs  
File Name
chicagogreatcent321906chic_0064.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogreatcent321906chic#page/62/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogreatcent321906chic
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject
  • Tunnels  
  • Railroads  
Coverage-Spatial
Chicago (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
Rights
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleUnderground freight system
DescriptionCaption: "Loaded freight train at street intersection". From text: "Chicago's great subway, or underground freight railroad, is now ready for operation. It is the most complete and extensive of any tunnel system in the world. … Every street in the down-town district, and many outside streets, are duplicated forty feet below the surface by the tunnel system. The entire subway is electric lighted, perfectly dry, clean and well-ventilated."
Date1906  
TypePhotographs  
File Namechicagogreatcent321906chic_0064.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogreatcent321906chic#page/62/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogreatcent321906chic
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject
  • Tunnels  
  • Railroads  
Coverage-SpatialChicago (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
RightsImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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