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Freight cars at the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad terminal, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• landseer312 said:

  Also see: memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/fsaall:@FILREQ(@FIEL...

General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• savannahnole said:

  What a great sign!

• Matt Steenhoek said:

  Blended 33 to 1?

• accurate porter said:

  Great shot....I'm an admin for a group called pabst signs, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• DMRRC said:

  Great Shot!!
  
  
  Hi, I saw your "railcar" picture, and I'd love to see it in the 1,000,000 Railcars group!
  Please tag with; 1000000railcars

• Gene Bowker said:

  Two great things for railfans beer and fallen flags. Read our railroad articles at Historic Railways

L.A. Downs (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  books.google.com/books?id=h4HaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA346&l... indicates that an L. A. Downs was a railroad executive -- president of Illinois Central Railroad.

• B-59 said:

  Lawrence A. Downs (1872-1940). He was president of the Illinois Central Railroad from 1926 to 1938 and subsequently chairman of the board, s. his obituary in archives.chicagotribune.com/1940/08/11/page/18/article/l-...

• Richard Norton said:

  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40051423

• Richard Norton said:

  This is another from the 1926 tranche of images misfiled with earlier photos.

• Micah (LOC P&P) said:

  swanq B-59 Richard Norton Thank you for the identifying information and corrected dating.