Northwest Generating Station 1949 plant layout
A 1949 Sanbourn Fire Insurance map of the interesting third rail electric railway operation that served the Commonwealth Edison Northwest Station generating plant at Addison and California in Chicago. The railway brought coal in from an interchange with the C&NW at Avondale and operated from 1911 until closing of the generating facilities in 1960.
I attended High School at Lane Tech just up the street from here and remember seeing the tracks along Addison still in place. See the other photos in the album, including another map of the line showing the connection to the C&NW,
Today the site is still occupied by Edison- the office building at the corner of California and Addison is still there, but most other traces of the once mighty generating station are gone. Interestingly, the transformer house from the old generating station (near the corner of California and Roscoe) survived into the 1980s, see pictures elsewhere in the album.
Northwest Generating Station 1949 plant layout
A 1949 Sanbourn Fire Insurance map of the interesting third rail electric railway operation that served the Commonwealth Edison Northwest Station generating plant at Addison and California in Chicago. The railway brought coal in from an interchange with the C&NW at Avondale and operated from 1911 until closing of the generating facilities in 1960.
I attended High School at Lane Tech just up the street from here and remember seeing the tracks along Addison still in place. See the other photos in the album, including another map of the line showing the connection to the C&NW,
Today the site is still occupied by Edison- the office building at the corner of California and Addison is still there, but most other traces of the once mighty generating station are gone. Interestingly, the transformer house from the old generating station (near the corner of California and Roscoe) survived into the 1980s, see pictures elsewhere in the album.