Image: IllinoisTunnelFirstTrain

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Description: Original caption: "OPENING OF CHICAGO SUBWAY FOR FREIGHT TRAFFIC In the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul freight house, where the first train operated by the Illinois Tunnel Company was received." On July 7, 1905, an 11 car train was dispatched over the 2-foot (61 cm) gauge tracks of the Illinois Tunnel Company from the Erie freight house. These 5 cars were delivered to the Milwaukee freight house. The elevator in the foreground goes down to the tunnel.
Title: IllinoisTunnelFirstTrain
Credit: One Hundred and Twenty-Five Photographic Views of Chicago, Rand McNally, Chicago, 1910; page 60.
Author: Anonymous work for hire, probably hired by the Illinois Tunnel Company
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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