Wednesday, July 11, 2018

AE&C Freight House

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.

2 comments:

Abella Rez said...
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Randall Hicks said...

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.