Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump, Chicago, Illinois

looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump,. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. The black-and-white photos of this scene were originally miscaptioned as "Indiana Harbor" railroad, which lead to the misassociation of this photo with Indiana Harbor. Photo shows the clearing yard at the Belt Railway Company of Chicago, taken from a structure above the hump tracks. (Source: Flickr Commons project and Bill Gustason, Chicago Area Rail Junctions, Hayford/Clearing Yard, dhke.com/CRJ/index.html, 2008) Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Subjects: Belt Railway Company of Chicago World War, 1939-1945 Snow Railroad shops & yards United States--Illinois--Chicago Format: Transparencies--Color Rights Info: on publication. Repository:, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.gov/.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-2 (DLC) 93845501 General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.gov/.pnp/pp.fsac Persistent URL: hdl.gov/.pnp/fsac.1a34691

Date

1943-01

Collection

FSA/OWI

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

929 × 686 pixels

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