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Chicago Stations & Trains Photo Archive By John Kelly Soft Cover
Chicago Stations & Trains Photo Archive By John Kelly
126 pages
Softcover
Copyright 2008
Contents
Chapter 1. Dearborn Station 1885-1971.
Chicago & Western Indiana, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Erie, Grand Trunk, Monon Route, Santa Fe System, Wabash Railroad.
Chapter 2. Grand Central Station 1890-1969.
Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago Great Western, Pere Marquette, Soo Line.
Chapter 3. Central Station 1893-1972.
Illinois Central, Big Four Route, Chesapeake & Ohio, Michigan Central, South Shore Lines.
Chapter 4. La Salle Street Station 1903-1981.
New York Central, Nickel Plate Road, Rock Island Lines.
Chapter 5. North Western Station 1911-used today by Chicago Metra.
Chicago & North Western.
Chapter 6. Chicago Union Station 1925- used today by Amtrak and Chicago Metra. . . . . Pennsylvania Railroad, Burlington Route, Alton Railroad, and Milwaukee Road.
INTRODUCTION
No other American city had such a fascinating group of railroad passenger stations as Chicago. This book highlights Chicago's six major railroad stations and the trains that served them. Included are Dearborn Station, Grand Central Station, Central Station, La Salle Street Station, North Western Station, and Union Station. Of these, only the last two are operating today. Three commuter stations also served Chicago: Illinois Central's Randolph Street Station (now Millennium Station), Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad's Roosevelt Road Station, and Chicago Aurora & Elgin's Wells Street Terminal.
Railroad stations were once the grand dames of large American cities. Each urban station had its own unique architecture and each served as city gateway with a maze of tracks, platforms and multicolored passenger trains. The maintenance facilities connected to most big-city railroad stations provided locomotive service for coal and water (and later, diesel fuel), mail and express loading, coach cleaners, laundry service for sleeping cars, and commissary food service for dining cars. In addition, most large stations had a great hall or waiting room that typically offered ticket counters, baggage storage room, redcap stand, information kiosk, newsstand, lunchroom, telephones, washrooms, and passenger seating. The part of the station comprising these functions was often called the "main station" or "head house." Another part of the station, called the "concourse," was generally an enclosed building connected to the head house, often built perpendicular to the tracks below. Passengers gathered in the concourse area prior to departure, where conductors collected their tickets and ushered them to the boarding gates and departure tracks. At track level, passengers were protected from the elements by platform canopies or elaborate, arched-roof train sheds.
In the early years of the 20th century many American cities like Chicago built magnificent train stations that became symbols of their cities' cultural sophistication, wealth and development.
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