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Brake beam department

Shipping department

The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 1857

Rock Island lines

State of Illinois / compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum

Map of the United States : exhibiting the principal rail road & steam boat routes

Map of the Chicago & Alton R.R. and connecting lines

Illinois Central Railroad, Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, and Indianapolis Southern Railroad, June 30, 1911

The range and ranch cattle area of the United States : 1884

The Belt Railway Company of Chicago : connects with all trunk lines at Chicago

The great railroad routes to the Pacific, and their connections : 1869

The direct short line, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway : the great national route, Chicago-Northwest

Map of the Missouri Pacific Railway, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Rio Grande Western Railway, Rio Grande Southern Railroad, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, Texas & Pacific Railway, International & Great Northern Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway : leased, operated & independent lines and connections

Railroad porters, Chicago and North Western Railway

Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model

New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;

Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist

Piggyback' service, Chicago Great Western Railroad

Railroad map of Illinois, 1915 / prepared under direction of State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois

Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by Orville F. Berry, B.A. Eckhart, Jas. A. Willoughby, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners

Coltons railroad map of part of the United States : north of the 37th parallel embracing the country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th meridian of longitude

Official map, Chicago Terminal District

Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s

Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineer

Illinois railroads

Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineering

Map of Illinois

Map of the state of Illinois, N. America showing all its rail-roads completed or in progress connecting with lines direct to N. York, S. Louis & Canada, their stations, distances & : showing also the counties, county towns, post offices, canals & principal rivers, coal and lead mine districts, timber and meadow lands

County map of Georgia and Alabama : the great agricultural and industrial states of the southeast / published by the Traffic Department, Central of Georgia Railway

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway system

Blanchard's map of the north western states : showing the counties, towns, railroads, stations, steamboat landing etc.

L'Oued Rir' et ses nouvelles oasis de création française

Comitato promotore della ferrovia Santhià Locarno

Rail Testing Lab

Vancouver Skyline from National Geographic Article "Canada's Highway of Steel"

John P. Ahrens, E. B. Leigh and E. T. Walker

Board of directors

Draughting department

Power room

Brake beam department

Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--North". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 1857
Image | 1857 | Railroad MapsThe Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 1857
Rock Island lines
Image | 1914 | Railroad MapsRock Island lines
State of Illinois / compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum
Image | 1885 | Railroad MapsState of Illinois / compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum
Map of the United States : exhibiting the principal rail road & steam boat routes
Image | 1850 | Railroad MapsMap of the United States : exhibiting the principal rail road & steam boat routes
Map of the Chicago & Alton R.R. and connecting lines
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1898 | Railroad MapsMap of the Chicago & Alton R.R. and connecting lines
Illinois Central Railroad, Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, and Indianapolis Southern Railroad, June 30, 1911
Image | 1911 | Railroad MapsIllinois Central Railroad, Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, and Indianapolis Southern Railroad, June 30, 1911
The range and ranch cattle area of the United States : 1884
Image | 1885 | Railroad MapsThe range and ranch cattle area of the United States : 1884
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago : connects with all trunk lines at Chicago
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1929-1945 | Railroad MapsThe Belt Railway Company of Chicago : connects with all trunk lines at Chicago
The great railroad routes to the Pacific, and their connections : 1869
Image | 1869 | Railroad MapsThe great railroad routes to the Pacific, and their connections : 1869
The direct short line, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway : the great national route, Chicago-Northwest
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1877 | Railroad MapsThe direct short line, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway : the great national route, Chicago-Northwest
Map of the Missouri Pacific Railway, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Rio Grande Western Railway, Rio Grande Southern Railroad, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, Texas & Pacific Railway, International & Great Northern Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway : leased, operated & independent lines and connections
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1904 | Railroad MapsMap of the Missouri Pacific Railway, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Rio Grande Western Railway, Rio Grande Southern Railroad, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, Texas & Pacific Railway, International & Great Northern Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway : leased, operated & independent lines and connections
Railroad porters, Chicago and North Western Railway
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Museum and Santa Fe Railroad exhibit consists of 1,200 feet of track running through a 3,000 square-foot landscape representing, the Great Plains, the Arizona desert and Grand Canyon, and California. Sprawled across the model landscape are a suburban village, an elevated highway, a commercial grain elevator, a cement factory, an oil field and refinery, an orange grove, a...
New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The New York Central 999 steam locomotive and fuel car measure approximately sixteen feet tall, ten feet wide, and forty-eight feet long. The driving wheels are seven feet, two inches tall. The locomotive and fuel car weigh 124,000 pounds. The locomotive, with two driving wheels on each side, is painted black with silver trim, and has brass components.
Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This masthead is from an anti-monopolist newspaper briefly published in Saybrook.
Piggyback' service, Chicago Great Western Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph, b/w
Railroad map of Illinois, 1915 / prepared under direction of State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1915 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois, 1915 / prepared under direction of State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois
Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by Orville F. Berry, B.A. Eckhart, Jas. A. Willoughby, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1911 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by Orville F. Berry, B.A. Eckhart, Jas. A. Willoughby, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Coltons railroad map of part of the United States : north of the 37th parallel embracing the country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th meridian of longitude
Image | 1883 | Railroad MapsColtons railroad map of part of the United States : north of the 37th parallel embracing the country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th meridian of longitude
Official map, Chicago Terminal District
Image | 1942 | Railroad MapsOfficial map, Chicago Terminal District
Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows the business section of Cooksville in 1885.
Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineer
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1903 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineer
Illinois railroads
Image | 1901 | Railroad MapsIllinois railroads
Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineering
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1902 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineering
Map of Illinois
Image | 1910 | Railroad MapsMap of Illinois
Map of the state of Illinois, N. America showing all its rail-roads completed or in progress connecting with lines direct to N. York, S. Louis & Canada, their stations, distances & : showing also the counties, county towns, post offices, canals & principal rivers, coal and lead mine districts, timber and meadow lands
Image | 1855 | Railroad MapsMap of the state of Illinois, N. America showing all its rail-roads completed or in progress connecting with lines direct to N. York, S. Louis & Canada, their stations, distances & : showing also the counties, county towns, post offices, canals & principal rivers, coal and lead mine districts, timber and meadow lands
County map of Georgia and Alabama : the great agricultural and industrial states of the southeast / published by the Traffic Department, Central of Georgia Railway
Image | 1901 | Railroad MapsCounty map of Georgia and Alabama : the great agricultural and industrial states of the southeast / published by the Traffic Department, Central of Georgia Railway
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway system
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | 1903-1911 | Railroad MapsMissouri, Kansas & Texas Railway system
Blanchard's map of the north western states : showing the counties, towns, railroads, stations, steamboat landing etc.
Image | 1867 | Historical Maps Online
L'Oued Rir' et ses nouvelles oasis de création française
Image | 1889 | Maps of Africa to 1900Revue Géographique Internationale
Comitato promotore della ferrovia Santhià Locarno
Multi-Page Item | 22 pages | 1873 | Digital Rare Book Collection
Rail Testing Lab
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Vancouver Skyline from National Geographic Article "Canada's Highway of Steel"
Image | 1994 | Bob Riley Landscape Architecture CollectionPortion of Vancouver
John P. Ahrens, E. B. Leigh and E. T. Walker
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "John P. Ahrens, Vice President
Board of directors
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Board of Directors: E. L. Adreon, John P. Ahrens, Jesse A. Baldwin, E. B. Leigh, F. P. Hays, C. S. Gleed, Albert Blair".
Draughting department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoDraughting department for Chicago location of the Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Power room
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--South". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.

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