Freight cars in yard south of Grand Central Station, Chicago

Grand Central Station (Chicago, Ill.)

Freight cars--United States

Pictured are trains of freight cars on tracks in a below-grade freight yard south of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Grand Central Station, Harrison Street, Chicago. Visible is the Grand Central Station 242 ft., flat-topped tower standing center left in the photo. The designer was architect Solon Beman. See Frank A. Randall, History of Chicago Buildings (University of Illinois Press, 1949), pp. 176-77. This image is one of a series of study photos taken prior to planning for Wacker Drive and for a new Union Station, planned by Peirce Anderson (Graham Anderson Probst & White) beginning in 1917.

Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954

Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection

1913-1915

Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection (Lake Forest College)

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1913 - 1915

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14.2 x 8.7 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in)