Railway Express terminal on CB&Q tracks

Street Address: 
Roosevelt and Canal St.
Chicago, IL

Title: Railway Express terminal on CB&Q tracks
Creator:Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Date Created: 1948-05

Photograph of a line of trucks backed up against loading dock bays on the first floor of a two-story building. The trucks all bear the Railway Express logo and have advertisements for Camel cigarettes on their sides.

This image is part of the Newberry digital collection Daily Life Along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The CB&Q archives at the Newberry (ca. 5,000 cubic feet) mainly document the nineteenth century operations of the Burlington and its component roads.

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