Our friend Bill Stewart has been browsing through the huge on-line collection of photographs hosted by the B&O Railroad Museum. He writes:
I immediately thought of you two when I came across the attached image, which depicts the AE&C Jefferson Street freight house, accented by a Mack bulldog truck and a nicely-attired gent going to work.
Here is the link.
This is undoubtedly the best picture I have seen of this structure, which was seldom photographed. I don't know how the AE&C could ever have had enough LCL into downtown to justify a building of this size.
In any case, there's lots of interesting pictures at this site, so just keep paging through them.
In any case, there's lots of interesting pictures at this site, so just keep paging through them.
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Frank and I have been discussing exactly where this building was located. The AE&C must have handled LCL into Chicago via the B&OCT, which is why this picture appears in the B&O collection. So the freight house was not near the actual route of the AE&C -- actually the Met L, of course -- but the B&O Chicago Terminal. The original alignment of the B&OCT in the Jefferson St. area has been obliterated, but we think the freight house was probably located between the CB&Q to the south and the B&OCT to the north, just west of the Union Ave. curve. Part of this area is now occupied by a UPS facility, and in some sense UPS has replaced LCL.
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