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Underground freight system


Title	Underground freight system
Description	Caption: "Loaded freight train at street intersection". From text: "Chicago's great subway, or underground freight railroad, is now ready for operation. It is the most complete and extensive of any tunnel system in the world. … Every street in the down-town district, and many outside streets, are duplicated forty feet below the surface by the tunnel system. The entire subway is electric lighted, perfectly dry, clean and well-ventilated."
Date	1906
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicagogreatcent321906chic_0064.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogreatcent321906chic#page/62/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject	Tunnels Railroads
Coverage-Spatial	Chicago (Ill.)
Date of Content	1900-1909
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	Industry
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogreatcent321906chic