Nice Yard Photos
Check out these Yard images:
General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.
General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942 Dec.
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Proviso Yards.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Snow
Railroad shops & yards
Railroad sidings
United States–Illinois–Melrose Park
Format: Transparencies–Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-1 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34680
Call Number: LC-USW36-586
Front Yard – Stage 1
Image by mpbottrell
Front Yard.
Have laid down top soil, and initial NDCR (Non-Descript Crushed Rock).
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These pictures are great. I am really happy that the Library of Congress is doing this.
Wonderful photo! Ditto, I am happy LC is doing this. I was 1 month old when this was taken, in Illinois to boot, and this scene brings back fond memories.
The more railroad pictures you post, the better! Bravo and thank you.
What a fantastic serie of beautiful photos.
Fantastic that the Library of Congress is doing this.
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This is a real treasure of the public domain. I think it is fantastic to make these available through Flickr, the best photo sharing site around.
It is a shame they have not uploaded the full resolution images. The LOC’s own site will often have 20MB scans of these photos. I’ve made some beautiful prints of New York’s Penn Station from there.
Thomas, the link to the persistent URL in the description area will take you to a high-resolution version of the image. Good luck!
Thanks JHSayers! Saved me from having to search their PPOC site.
This is quite exciting! Some real beautiful stuff to be found in there.
The Library of Congress isn’t just one of my favorite buildings… it’s now probably my favorite Flickr contact.
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I absolutely love Jack Delano’s work. Thank you so very much to the LOC for posting these photos on Flickr!
Wonderful work.
neat train picture
This is to good for words. Thank you LOC! Love the catalog description too. Well organized.
A brilliant collection and a wonderful idea. Thanks for using flickr!
Thank you so much for releasing these images on flickr. Wow, what a spectacle!
very nice. Awesome idea.
Yeah, fan mail for my tax dollars at work! Seriously, two thumbs up, thanks.
good project! very thanks!
Beautiful picture; great project
We’re glad you’re enjoying them. We’re pleased to be able to share the photographs with such enthusiastic viewers!
Wonderful project!
Excellent shot. Felt bad I couldn’t add any tags
Everyone seems to be doing a good job of it.
Great idea, thanks !
Cool idea !
Now if we can just get our own Canadian Government to do the same thing up here….
Railroads draw a flower blossoming.
yes!!! thank you! this is amazing.
awesome project, making these accessible easily by the people
Thank You for all the work that must have gone into this. What an amazing collection.
Neato.
we do not have much railroads here where I live, sure it is nice to see an oldie.
I see a lot of these on Shorpy, and this makes me an instant fan of the LOC, these are incredibly beautiful images
this is what tax dollars were meant for
Finally the Internet starts to live up to its promise!
Awesome pictures!
Publishing all these excellent historic photos for everyone to enjoy is a wonderful project!
this is cool
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I have an ongoing project (brand new, of course), started in an effort to help restore the color to these images, but also try to maintain the integrity and charm of the original.
Here is the adjusted photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alec_fredericks/sets/72157603732346...
This is great!!
Anyone who knows where this was taken, please geotag it.
These pictures are AMAZING. They make me realize how much work I have to do as a photographer.
This is a great idea. I may never have seen a lot of these any other way.
attaboy
great to see these!
Wonderful idea!!! I love these great pictures.
It does look like something I’ve seen at Shorpy.
Good and Nice photo.
Good photo
Lighting- is Nice.
Composition-Ok.
Focusing-Ok
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This is what makes you realize that some taxes are worth it! Keep up the great work!
Wow, I wish the feds would increase the funding for the NEA. We’re lucky to see all of this.
This is an amazing collection. We are glad to see other institutions using flickr to display extraordinary pictures. The Westerville Public Library is doing something similar using the Flickr API to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary. Take a look:
http://www.westervillelibrary.org/timeline/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/westerville_public_library/
Keep up the amazing job!
I love that the LOC is bringing American History to life. Thanks for taking on this initiative and providing all of these wonderful images for easy Flickr viewing. I can’t get enough!
Excellent idea. Kudos to the Library of Congress and Flickr.
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This is WONDERFUL! So much history capured so timelessly.
So this is how clouds are made!
this is so great. so happy to discover this. thanks for posting these amazing historical photos!
I don’t understand: Why is there absolutely no metadata in the files we all can download via the All Sizes link? Why not IPTC?
Perhaps because no one had time to enter any into the file? I would imagine there are tens of thousands of images (if not more) that need updating. But likely no one to do it (or very few people). I can’t pretend to know the answer to your question, but considering the photo was taken in the 1940s, I have to hazard a guess that the camera didn’t automatically insert any IPTC data when it was taken. Perhaps if you can find the photographer, you can ask why he/she didn’t use a better camera.
You’ve heard of film, right?
I’m pretty sure those film cameras were lacking the metadata.
Haha making clouds…
Only just found this set of shots, brilliant use of Flickr! What a nice way to spend a day at work, viewing 3000 odd photos!
I love the feel of this one.
Wow. These photos are fantastic. I may be putting a few of these on my office walls
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Beautiful!
Hi,
great! thanks for sharing so many photos!
I have just seen a report on german state tv (WDR) about this idea!
regards.
One suggestion: It looks like the images aren’t tagged by the photographer’s name. That would be very helpful for searching.
Add the tag
It’s a team effort, chirugby 
Wonderful collection ———great pic all of them
nice project!
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Thank you so much for posting this wonderful series! So many of these photos I’d probably never have the opportunity to see any other way.
這張圖片真美！感謝你們為全人類作的事情！
非常棒的计划，谢谢！
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Are You Experienced?, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
I LIKE this, library of congress. Keep up the good work.
Excellent, Thank you!
needs another tag UK english
"marshalling yard"
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/MARSHALLINGYARD
It’s a beautiful photograph!
This is beautiful – and this is coming from a Chicago native! -saves-
What a treasure! <3
Magnifica muestra del pasado en color. Gracias por quitarnos de la retina del pasado el B.N.
Paz
Thanks
Delano, Jack,, 1914-1997, photographer.
Great pic.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called freightyards, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
"old is gold" !!
nice one……..!!
amazing details !
wonderful picture,
very beautiful shot ! !
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You are my winner!
Please add this photo to
http://www.flickr.com/groups/mywinners/
great shor >
waaw so sweet
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Chicago 2016 Olympic Games (Support Group), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
As the tag already states, this is Proviso Yard–Melrose Park, IL. This view was likely taken from a light tower or some other tall structure within the yard as the view looks directly west. The Manheim Road bridge is visible running over the yard about a half mile in the distance.
I love Jack Delano and the LOC!