Industrial History

These are notes that I am writing to help me learn our industrial history. They are my best understanding, but that does not mean they are a correct understanding.

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Monday, April 10, 2017

Windmills

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20160811 4243 2016 Sycamore Farm Show Today, wind power is used to generate electricity . But before farms where electrified, many far...

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Rock Island's Coach (12th Street) Yard

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Steve OConnor posted Another of my Dad's (Roderick O'Connor) photos of Chicago circa 1947-48. Rock Island commuter coach yard in ...

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Friday, April 22, 2016

Plymouth Locomotives

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Steve OConnor posted A Plymouth center cab locomotive at Riverdale Acme steel mill, South Chicago. (Photo- Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection)...

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

CWP&S's South Deering or 100th Street Yard and Wisconsin Steel Slag Dump

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(Satellite information is below) 3 3. CWP&S 49 again, but at 104th St., Chicago, IL on March 31, 1964. Brubaker, C. William, 1974, ...

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IH: CWP&S: Chicago, West Pullman & Southern Overview

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Kevin Piper posted a history and several photos. Franklin Campbell : I remember reading an excerpt of an old Railway Age issue about various...

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