Wednesday, August 28, 2019

PHOTO - CHICAGO - RANDOLPH STREET STATION - PRUDENTIAL BUILDING IN BACKGROUND - CHICAGO SOUTH SHORE AND SOUTH BEND COMMUTER TRAIN WAITING AT PLATFORM - NOTE: THE RAIL LINE IS OFTEN CALLED "THE SOUTH SHORE LINE" AND ITS OPENING DATES BACK TO 1908 - SOME EARLY COMMUTER LINES SERVING CHICAGO WERE QUITE ADVANCED IN BEING ELECTRIFIED (1926 FOR THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL ("THE IC"), SOMETHING STILL NOT TRUE TODAY FOR SOME INTERURBAN COMMUTER SYSTEMS - 1969 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER