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Erie Frt House Chicago IL 1977

Erie freight house ,The growth of Intermodal and bulk traffic as well as the loss of LCL traffic changed the face of how Frt was interchanged and distributed .The era of freight transfer between boxcars and trucking such as Lifeschultz trucking Erie 14th st Freight station here in Chicago stands abandoned in my shot spring of 1977 scene done in by changes in the freight transport business as well as EL Merger into conrail .This was once a very busy place in the 60's and 70's .today this is full of Condo's and would never know what was here .The tracks in front of the building are the tracks going into Dearborn station

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Uploaded on August 29, 2017
Taken on August 19, 2012