Tag Archives: My Photography – Street

Street Photography: STREET III (75 Photos).

Two wheelers. 8/2021
Chicago. Crown Fountain. 7/2016
Chicago. 9/2015
Oakbrook, IL. 7/2019
Chicago. The Logan Theatre. 2/2013.
Chicago. Downtown. 11/2017
Downers Grove, Illinois. 7/2018
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East Chicago. Indiana. 7/2016
Chicago. Michigan Avenue. 8/2015
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Chicago. Navy Pier. 9/2016
Chicago. Lake Shore Drive. 8/2015
Chicago. West Loop/East Garfield Park. 10/2016
Chicago. Millennium Park. 9/2016
Chicago. Grand Boulevard. 10/2016

Built as a synagogue founded in 1861 by German Jewish immigrants, the neo-Classical building at 4600 S. King Drive was home to Chicago Sinai Congregation from 1912 until the 1940s.

In 1961, Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church moved into the building in the Grand Boulevard community of Bronzeville. The church community brought a strong commitment to social justice and played an instrumental role in bringing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference to Chicago in the 1960’s. Since that time the church has provided a neighborhood food bank.

Chicago. Navy Pier. 9/2015
Downers Grove, IL. 5/2019
Downers Grove, IL. 6/2020
Milwaukee, WI. 6/2018
Chicago. Edgewater. 7/2014
Oakbrook, IL. 7/2019
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Chicago. Magnificent Mile. 5/2016
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Wilmette, IL. Violin shop. 6/2016
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In 1895 M. Morin, an executive at Le Bon Marché, looked to give his wife a gift. Since the 1860s, Japanese art and its influences and practices (known as “japonisme”) had a profound impact on France’s own fine and popular arts, and this craze became even more popular by the 1890s. It was only natural for M. Morin to build a real pagoda as a lavish and fashionable statement next door to the couple’s house in Paris. Pieces were shipped from Asia and reassembled in Paris under the design and direction of Alexandre Marcel (1860-1928) at 57 bis, rue de Babylone on the corner with rue Monsieur in the 7th arrondissement. Built in the middle of a residential neighborhood it boasted all things Japanese including stone figures of dragons, lions, buddhas and birds as well as distinctive Asian-style rooflines. In 1930 it became a 400-seat cinema movie theatre that became an art-house cinema in the 1970s and, after 85 years of operation, closed its doors in 2015. SOURCE: 1000 Buildings of Paris, Kathy Borrus, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York, 2003, p. 275 and http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6906 – retrieved January 4, 2023.

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Street Photography: SIGNS OF THE TIMES. (55 Photos).

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In the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church was formed in 1902. During the Great Migration, African-Americans made Ebenezer their church home.

Ebenezer developed a reputation as a center for gospel music. Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993), the father of gospel music, introduced his blend of Christian praise and blues at Ebenezer and started the first gospel choir here.

During the 30-year pastorate of Rev. Frank K. Sims, distinguished guests of the church included Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Ralph Metcalfe (1910-1978), Adam Clayton Powell (1908-1972) and Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972).

In 1966 a banquet honoring Dr. Frank Kentworth Sims on the 7th anniversary of his pastorate of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church featured Nobel Peace Prize recipient the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as the guest speaker and Mahalia Jackson as guest vocalist.

SOURCES:

chipublib.org/fa-ebenezer-missionary-baptist-church-archives/

https://ebenezerbronzeville.org/about/

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The Loma Theatre, designed by S. Charles Lee (1899-1990), was opened on May 5, 1945 with its first feature, 20th Century-Fox’s Technicolor musical film, Diamond Horseshoe, starring Betty Grable. See – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8wTy6_Si5U&t=106s – retrieved December 29, 2022.

Mann Theatres operated it from 1973 to December 1987 (Its last feature was Paramount Pictures’ Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close). The Loma ’s vintage signage is intact along with some of its movie-house interior although today it serves as a bookstore. For some interesting memories of a friendly and classy movie house, see – http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1716– retrieved December 29, 2022.

S. Charles Lee was one of the foremost mid20th-century architects of movie houses on the West Coast. Simeon Charles Levi was born and grew up in Chicago. There Lee worked for Rapp & Rapp, the renown Chicago architectural firm that specialized in movie theatre design. Rapp & Rapp’s significant work in this period included State Street’s Chicago Theatre in 1921, and the Bismarck Hotel and Theatre, and the Oriental Theatre both in 1926.

The Loma Theatre’s architect was influenced by Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). In 1922, before moving to Los Angeles, Lee was impressed by the Chicago Tribune building competition on North Michigan Avenue whose competitors juxtaposed historicism, such as the Beaux-Arts, with modernism. Lee considered himself a modernist, and his design career expressed the Beaux-Arts discipline and a modernist functionalism and freedom of form.

Beginning his career in California in the 1920’s, by the 1930’s S. Charles Lee was the principal designer of motion picture theaters in Los Angeles. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Lee is credited with designing many hundreds of movie theaters in California, including San Diego’s Loma Theatre at 3150 Rosecrans Boulevard.

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Street Photography: STREET II. (79 Photos).

Photographs ©John P. Walsh

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All the World's a Stage (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), June 9, 2018.
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William C. “Bill” Henry (1935-1992) for which this portion of 16th Street is named, was a 24th Ward Chicago alderman. Ald. Henry put together the coalition of Black and white aldermen to elect Eugene Sawyer (1934-2008) as mayor of the City of Chicago following the sudden death of Harold Washington (1922-1987), the first black mayor elected in Chicago.

Responding to accusations of deal cutting, Ald. Henry declared during the debate in the City Council chamber: “Deals? We was all making deals!” Henry’s constituents voted their alderman out of office for helping Sawyer in preference to Tim Evans, the reform candidate. Ald. Henry passed away from cancer in 1992 at 56 years old. In 2021 Timothy C. Evans is the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

see- http://www.cookcountycourt.org/ABOUT-THE-COURT/Office-of-the-Chief-Judge – retrieved June 3, 2021; https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/10/15/new-podcast-the-city-brings-back-memories-of-alderman-bill-henry-and-dealmaking-in-chicago – retrieved June 3, 2021.

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Street Photography: U.S. MIDWEST ROADS. (70 Photos).

Willowbrook, IL. Chicken Basket. 4/2016 6.53 mb

Dell Rhea’s Chicken Basket
(above in 2016) is 22 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. Its address is 645 Joliet Road, Willowbrook, Illinois.

The Chicken Basket is a mandatory dine-in or carry-out stop on a “Midwest Roads” visit. Vintage roadhouse decor and family-oriented service is joined to the menu which features fresh, succulent fried chicken cooked-to-order.

Opened in 1926

The business first opened in 1926 as a gas station and lunch counter on the brand-new Route 66. U.S. Route 66 traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles, California —a distance of more than 2,000 miles.

In 1939, fried chicken was served for the first time by its original owner, Irv Kolarik.

In 1946 the present one-story brick commercial building was designed and built by architect Eugene F. Stoyke (1912-1993) next to the original building. It was during the post-World-War-II travel (and baby) boom that it became a full-service restaurant.

Original windows and signage

Dell Rhea’s bay of 9 single-light-glass-and-wood-canted windows is original where an immense fireplace anchored the dining area’s north wall. The neon-and-metal sign in the photograph was original when this photograph was taken. It was replaced in 2017 with an exact replica. In 1956, a cocktail lounge was added to the south.

Bluebird Bus stop to St. Louis

In 1962 Interstate 55 opened—the major expressway connecting Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans—and effectively retired U.S. Route 66 in this part of Illinois.

In front of the restaurant there was a Bluebird Bus stop (founded in 1927) which people could take to St. Louis or use to send packages across country.

New Owners

In 1963 the Chicken Basket was bought by Chicago businessman Delbert Francis “Dell” Rhea (1907-1992) who knew how to invigorate the eatery while maintaining its tradition for a new era.

The popular Chicken Basket was owned and managed by the Rhea family until 2019. The Lombardi family took over with the promise to keep intact the original recipe which is unchanged since 1946 and continue the same Chicken Basket tradition.

SOURCES: http://www.chickenbasket.com/ and https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/dell_rheas_chicken_basket_hinsdale.html.

“(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” is a popular rhythm & blues standard composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup (1918-1999). It was a hit that same year for Nat King Cole who, with the King Cole Trio, first recorded the song. Troup got the idea for the song when taking a ten-day cross country trip with his wife in a Buick from Pennsylvania to California on U.S. Routes 40 and 66. The lyrics include some of the popular cities and towns on the route. Troup, who later became a film and television actor, certainly drove by what is today Dell Rhea’s Chicken Basket on that historic road trip.

INTRODUCTION.

These are some of my photographs featuring people, places, and things I have met and seen along today’s American Midwest roads.

I have a personal affinity and affection for the American Midwest. I grew up in Chicago and its suburbs, and went to school here and live here today. My family has been in Illinois since at least the 1830s.

Growing up in the Midwest, my experiences included family, friends, diverse outings, engaging jobs, and being married here. I love to explore this vast region that’s rightly called “The Heart of America.”

Memories of the Middle West — its sights, sounds, smells, and tastes — and mostly in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan — are the mother’s milk of my life. In steamy summers, multi-colored autumns, ice-bitten winters, and flowering, reawakening springs to get outside to walk and ride on Midwest roads are pure adventure, then and now.

The American Midwest is filled with human stories and diverse and awesome natural beauty. There is timeless nostalgia, and, if such things don’t entice for the moment, unexpected curiosities.

For those who love it, the Midwest terrain carries all Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) spoke on in his last major book, The Sangamon. There is “magic in that soil, in the plains, the borders of forest, the oak trees on the hills,” the poet wrote. Masters was sure that “if you should drive through (this region)…strange dreams would come to you, and moreover those dreams would tally with mine.”

The region continues to offer the sightseer magical things. This includes its primordial aspects, such as animals, birds, natural outcroppings and waterways, as well as impressive remnants of Native American mound-building culture from the Midwest’s southern to northern reaches.

Edgar Lee Masters understood that it is the Midwest’s people – often defined as individualistic, hospitable, diverse, industrious, good-willed, courageous and independent – who imbue the region its greatest distinction. It is a populace and setting that, despite various economic setbacks and pockets of unfortunate decline, build and display what is often photographed on Midwest roads: historic canals, roads, barns and farms, houses. In the 21st century new things of interest can be seen on Midwest roads such as cellphone towers and wind turbines as older things, like barns and even some towns, decay or disappear.

Many famous American and international figures have lived and traveled on Midwest roads such as U.S. presidents, writers, actors, artists, business people, etc. This includes James Monroe (in 1785), Charles Dickens (1842), John Muir (1849), Henry David Thoreau (1861), Antonín Dvořák (1893), Winston Churchill (1946). Midwest natives include Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Edison, Edgar Lee Masters, Walt Disney, Mark Twain, Jane Addams, Harry S Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Barack and Michelle Obama,  Frank Lloyd Wright, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., John Wayne, Wyatt Earp, “Wild Bill” Hickok, Jesse James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Dinah Washington (“Queen of the Blues”), and many, many more.

But It is Abraham Lincoln whose memory is most famously linked to Midwest Roads. Riding on his horse, “Old Bob,” Lincoln loved to travel the Eighth Judicial Circuit in central Illinois as a defense lawyer. It is to the 16th U.S. president and a Midwestern spirit he manifested to whom this photographic essay is dedicated.

SOURCES: E.L. Masters quotes from The Sangamon by Edgar Lee Masters with Introduction by Charles E. Burgess, University of Illinois Press, Urbana & Chicago, 1988 (first published 1942), p.6.

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Asian Garden (Man), July 2018
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Illinois Farm (Bureau County IL) June 5, 2017.
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Crucifix and wind turbine (Bureau County IL), June 5, 2017.
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Lee Co. Dixon, IL. Ronald Reagan Trail (IL-26). 6/2017

The Ronald Reagan Trail (IL-26) is a route in Illinois that follows sites of interest associated with the 40th president of The United States. Reagan grew up in Dixon, Illinois.

Originally Route 26 ran north-south for about 25 miles from Freeport, Illinois to Polo, Illinois.

In 1937, IL-26 was extended about 15 miles north to the Illinois-Wisconsin state line and about 15 miles south to Dixon, Illinois.

In 1969, IL-26 was extended almost 100 miles from Dixon south to East Peoria, Illinois.

Lee Co. Dixon, IL, Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home. 6/2017
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DeKalb Co., IL. 1992 Case IH 7150 10/2016   3.53mb
Midwest Roads.
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Ottawa, IL. LaSalle Co. Bi-centennial mural (detail). 9/2016
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DuPage Co. Wheaton, IL. 2016
McHenry Co. Near Coral, IL. U.S Grant Memorial Highway (U.S. 20). 5/2017

U.S. Route 20 is the longest road in the country. It stretches east to west from Boston, Massachusetts to Newport, Oregon– about 3,100 miles.

Route 20 began on the East coast in the early to mid1920’s. The road reached Illinois in 1938 and is mostly unchanged since that time.

In 1955 the Illinois General Assembly designated the length of U.S. 20 in Illinois the U.S. Grant Memorial Highway. The sign in htis photograph was produced in late 2006.

Walworth Co. Lake Geneva WI, 5/2017
Cook Co. Des Plaines, IL. Santuario de Guadalupe. 5/2018
Winnebago Co., Rockford, IL, 7/2017
Cook/DuPage Cos., Willow Springs, IL. The Worker, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Camp Chicago-Lemont, Company 612, est. June 4, 1933. 6/2018

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a major program in President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. To offset the deleterious effects of the Great Depression – including 25% unemployment – the CCC was active from April 1933 to July 1942.

In those nine years and 3 months the CCC employed upwards of 3 million young men. These men recieved their food, clothing and shelter along with a check of $30 a month (around $600 in today’s dollars), of which $25 of it had to be sent home to their families.

The Federal program provided manual labor jobs related to conservation and the development of natural resources. These work projects took place mostly on rural lands owned by government entities.

The CCC was specifically designed to give jobs to young men and to relieve their families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression.

Lee Co. Dixon, IL. Capt. A. Lincoln, Illinois Volunteer Militia, Black Hawk War, 1832, bronze, 1930. by Leonard Crunelle (1872-1944).

In the early 1830s Illinois was the edge of the American frontier.

During the 1832 Black Hawk War, the 23-year-old Abe Lincoln of New Salem, Illinois, was a captain in the Illinois National Guard. This bronze statue in Dixon, Illinois, depicts that aspect of the 16th president’s life experience and career.

Lincoln enlisted in the Illinois Volunteers on April 21, 1832 near Richland Creek in Sangamon County which was located about halfway between New Salem and Springfield, Illinois. The next day, Lincoln mustered into state service at Beardstown, Illinois, about 40 miles to the west on the Illinois River.

Lincoln was elected captain, a position he said he was surprised — and proud — to receive.

Lincoln mustered into U.S. service near Janesville, Wisconsin on May 3, 1832. He mustered out on May 27, 1832 in Ottawa, Wisconsin and without having fired a shot.

On that same May 27, Lincoln re-enlisted as a private in Captain Iles’ company. When that enlistment expired Lincoln re-enlisted again in Captain Early’s company.

Lincoln finally mustered out of military service on July 10, 1832 at Whitewater, Wisconsin.

Young Lincoln was stationed in Dixon, Illinois, at Fort Dixon on the Rock River where this statue — unveiled in late September 1930 — stands. The sculptor is French-born Leonard Crunelle (1872-1944).

Crunelle’s immigrant family arrived in Illinois in 1889 and settled in Decatur, about 40 miles east of Springfield, Lincoln’s hometown. When Crunelle worked in the local mines, he started making fired clay sculptures. His work was brought to the attention of prominent American sculptor and teacher Lorado Taft (1860-1936) who brought young Crunelle to Chicago to study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At the same time, Crunelle began to do decorative work for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.

The bronze sculpture of Lincoln – who later as a lawyer and politician expressed pride in his brief military service – is one of the first attempts to depict the Great Emancipator in his youth.

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McDonough Co. Uptown, Macomb, IL, 5/2006
Winnebago Co. Rockford, IL, Anderson Japanese Gardens, 7/2017

The Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, IL, is a popular 12-acre Japanese garden established in 1978. The gardens are on lands surrounding Rockford businessman John Anderson’s home. Anderson was inspired by gardens he visited in japan and other Japanese gardens in the U.S.

Under the guidance of Hoichi Kurisu, renowned master craftsman and landscape designer, the Andersons’ land along Rockford’s Spring Creek was transformed into an outdoor space of water, wood, stone, and flora representative of 1,000 years of Japanese horticultural tradition.

Iroquois Co., Watseka, IL. Corn for sale. 8/2017
Lee Co., IL. 6/2017
Kane Co., IL. Fox River. 8/2014
Kendall Co.. IL. 9/2016.
DuPage Co., IL. 8/2015
DuPage Co., IL. 10/2017
DuPage Co. Downers Grove, IL. Converted barn house. 8/2017
Will Co. Romeoville, IL, White Fence Farm. 5/2017

White Fence Farm was established in the 1920s by Stuyvesant “Jack” Peabody (1888-1926), the son of a wealthy coal baron. Jack Peabody opened the restaurant to feed his guests who visited his nearly 500-acre horse farm on the opposite side of a newly-opened U.S. Route 66.

In the mid1930s Peabody started to promote the domestic wine industry by featuring California wines at the restaurant.

Since 1954, the Hastert family has owned and operated White Fence Farm. Advertising itself as the “World’s Greatest Chicken,” the restaurant building has been expanded many times under the Hasterts. Within a country farm manor ambience, the popular restaurant boasts several dining rooms that can seat over 1,000 diners.

White Fence Farm continues to offer some of freshest and best-tasting fried chicken in and around historic U.S. Route 66. The restaurant is a perennially popular destination, especially on weekends and during the warm weather months, where people in the area as well as tourists arrive in droves.

The two children of coal magnate F.S. Peabody (1859-1922) – May Henderson Peabody Osborne (1891-1936) and Stuyvesant “Jack” Peabody (1888-1946) in a photograph from around 1910, When May died at 44 years in 1936 her estate was valued at around $500,000 (or $10 million in 2021). Their father, F.S. Peabody, the largest coal producer in the U.S., died in 1922 at 63 years old when he suffered a fatal heart attack at a party he was hosting in Oakbrook, Illinois, to celebrate the completion of his new mansion there.

see – https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207904858/francis-stuyvesant-peabody; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213107315/may-henderson-osborne; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176456605/stuyvesant-peabody – retrieved October 19, 2021.

DuPage Co. Downers Grove, IL. Farmer’s Market (cheese seller). 9/2017
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DuPage Co., IL. Kline Creek farm. 5/2016
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LaSalle Co., IL. 7/2017
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McHenry Co., IL. Barn. 5/2017
Kane Co, West Dundee, IL. 8/2014

The small frame house, c. 1860, was moved or demolished before November 2018. The candy store, in business in West Dundee since 1998, reopened in another location “around the corner” by March 2017. see – https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/ct-ecn-west-dundee-around-corner-candy-moved-st-0312-20170310-story.html – retrieved July 2, 2021,

DuPage Co. Downers Grove, IL. Farmer’s Market. 7/2021
Dane Co., WI. Barn. 6/2017 4.48 mb
Will Co. Joliet, IL. 5/2021.

In the early 1950’s, Alfred, Jr. (Mitch) and Norma Mitchell opened a small grocery store on the corner of Raynor and Curtis Avenues. In 1957, it was expanded to the present location adjacent to the original building. A short time later, Harley Mitchell joined his brother.

Woodford Co., Eureka, IL. Eureka College, Burrus Dickinson Hall (built 1858). 9/2016 3.87 mb

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the U.S. (1981-1989), is the only U.S. president who was born, grew up and received his education in the state of Illinois. Reagan was a Eureka College graduate, class of 1932.

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LaSalle Co., Ottawa, IL. 8/2016 4.13 mb In honor of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Who practiced law from 1851 to 1859
Before the Supreme Court of Illinois
At its sessions then held in the old
La Salle County Court House on this site
Erected by the
Illini Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
1922
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Street Photography: TRAINS. (20 Photos).

Chicago. Loop. 11/2017
Chicago. Brown Line. 10/2017

The Brown Line (also known as the Ravenswood Line) is part of the Chicago “El” or “L” rapid transit system. The Chicago public transportation train system offers a total of 8 color-named lines (Yellow, Red, Blue, Pink, Orange, Green, Purple, and Brown). All the lines begin in the downtown “Loop” and branch out from there in different directions throughout the city (except, of course, east into Lake Michigan).

The popular Brown Line travels over 11 miles from downtown Chicago to the north and west to the “Kimball” station in Chicago’s Albany Park. There are 27 stations on the Brown Line and the train runs entirely above ground. The Brown Line first opened in 1907.

https://www.transitchicago.com/visitors/ – retrieved June 30, 2021.

https://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/ctamap_Lsystem.png – retrieved June 30, 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Line_(CTA) – retrieved June 30, 2021.

METX 183, EMD F40PH-2. BSNF Railway Line. 7/2021

Locomotive METX 183, EMD F40PH-2 was originally built for Metra by General Motors in September 1989 at their Electro-Motive Division (EMD) plant (now closed) in LaGrange, Illinois. see – http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=2727 – retrieved July 1, 2021.

Locomotive 194. BNSF Railway Line. 6/2021

Locomotive 194 was the first Metra locomotive after 2015 to be completely rebuilt and repainted just outside Patterson, Georgia at the Progress Rail plant. The first F40(PHM) rebuilt “like new” engines were returned to Metra service in September 2016.

The F40PHM locomotives were originally built for Metra by General Motors in 1991 at their Electro-Motive Division plant (now closed) in LaGrange, Illinois.

This locomotive features a short nose and sloped cab improving engineer safety in the event of a crash. These rebuilt locomotives are essentially a brand-new locomotive in their original 1991 frame.

The paint scheme for the F40 was developed by a Metra engineer for earlier rebuilds of Metra F59PH and MP36PH locomotives with slight variations.

These rebuilds offer internal systems that are an improvement over the original—this includes better emissions. Locomotive 194 and the 40 other F40PH-2 and F40PHM-2 locomotives that were under contract to be rebuilt for Metra in 2015 are expected to be in service until around 2030.

The total cost for these 41 rebuilt locomotives was $91 million—that is, about $2.2 million for each locomotive. That is contrasted to the cost of a brand new locomotive (about $7 million each). These F40 rebuilds, which serve mainly on the BSNF line, are familiarly called “Winnebagos” for their sleek style reminiscent of the recreational vehicles of that well-known manufacturer.

https://metrarail.com/about-metra/newsroom/the-signal/welcome-home-locomotive-194 – retrieved June 24, 2021.

Metra Train 129. Union Pacific West Line. 5/2018

Metra Train 129 was built in November 1979.

Engine 5071, GE C30-7. BSNF Railway Line. 4/2021

Engine 5071, GE C30-7, was built in July 1980.  http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=63833

BNSF Railway. 5/2020

Retired trainman for Union Pacific Railroad.

BSNF Railway Line. 7/2020
Amtrak 4612 “Midwest,” Siemens SC-44. BSNF Railway Line. 7/2020

 http://rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=234122

Metra Train 188, BNSF Railway Line. 3/2018.

Metra Train 188 was built December 1991.
 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=2101

Engine 5795. Union Pacific West Line. 5/2018

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=40138

Chicago. Metra 417, MPI MP36PH-3S. 8/2017. 

Metra 417 was built in October 2003. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=10585

Chicago. 9/2015
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Near Wolf Point, Chicago. 8/2021 7.11 mb
freight. 8/2022 7.77 mb 85%
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Street Photography: STREET I. (52 Photos).

Photographs ©John P. Walsh

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