http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/il/il0800/il0822/photos/318238pu.tifIf you click on the high resolution picture and then zoom (click on the picture) you can move your cursor throughout the picture.
Could you give me an idea of what company names the various buildings were on the picture looking south? For example as you come across the bridge and to the right I believe that was the Steel Co. complex, name which escapes me.
Also the building that is where the yard ends I also thought was part of that steel company (Excelsior?) with the other long building behind it across Division St. being National Tea?
Then there is the building with the trucks, on the right side of the yard which looks like a freight house where trucks pick up what is dropped off from the boxcars, would you know the name of it?
The building on the left side of the yard along the river also looks like a freight house with trucks at the dock. Maybe just a Milw Rd freight house. You can see the team tracks if you follow the left side down as the tracks go across Hooker St. which also served a coal supply area from other pictures I have seen.There is a ramp on the street between Hooker and Cherry St that took you up to the Ogden Ave overpass.
This other web link from the Chicago Historical Society gives you an idea from the other direction looking north. The picture allows you to zoom and pan throughout the picture also and you can even get a glimpse of the Kingsbury Line.
With these links and the Historical Aviation Photo link you can get a good idea of how things have really changed over the last 40 years.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300045.htmlGM
