14th Street Yard

Title: Chicago skyline and 14th St. passenger yards
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Date: 1948-05

View of passenger yard with the Chicago skyline north of it. Locomotive "9376 CB&Q" is switching passenger cars. The Commonwealth Edison steam plant at 1300 S. Lumber St. is prominent in the center of the image. More images of the yard are available here.

These images are part of the Newberry digital collection Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The CB&Q archives at the Newberry documents the nineteenth century operations of the Burlington and its component roads.