Guys:
That small tower is actually on the GM&O dedicated trackage and shared platform beneath the tower feeding into and south of Chicago Union Station. Manned as far as I know by GM&O personnel and used in coordinating all GM&O consists in and out of CUS.
The image is not reversed, the view is to the south, taken just south of Harrison Street. REA Express is on the right or west side of the tracks. The post office was certainly in existence then and the tracks visible all passed under the post office complex at Harrison Street before entering CUS three blocks north at Jackson Blvd. The mainline tracks into CUS day-lighted at the north side of the post office with the track platform canopies visible up to Jackson Street. All below street level of the surrounding areas.
The tracks to the far left (east) in the photo were the lead tracks into the post office where much of the interchange was made between the in and outbound RPO and express cars. These tracks terminated just south of the south CUS concourse and were just west of the Chicago Rivet adjacent to CUS.
Dennis Popish
On Sep 28, 2021, at 12:32 PM, Michael Woodruff <mwoodruff54@gmail.com> wrote:
Would that have been a CB&Q tower, though? Your description makes it sound more like the PRR Harrison Street tower. There's a photo in the Barriger Archives, but it's reversed as so many of them are:
I've attempted to correct and attach it, not sure if the attachment will be stripped off.
msw
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Subject: Question
Comments:
Good morning!
Im looking for photos of the CB&Q tower in Chicago between the PRR freight
warehouse (Polk St I think) and the CB&Q REA freighthouse. The only photos I
can find are from a vehicle bridge and only of one end. I wish I could
insert a photo here to show which one Im talking about.
Im curious as to the size and lower support structures.
Im looking to incorporate a similar scene on my N-Scale passenger terminal
and this tower is very interesting to me.
Thank you in advance. Any help or reference would help.
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