I hope you can find your Skokie depot photo. The only Skokie I know is in IL. Another example of 1950s/60s purpose-built, frills-free agencies was found at Brundidge, AL on the former ACL. [03/14/1987]
From 10/30/1977 at Knoxville, TN, two big C-628s and a U-Boat idle with a coal train. East TN was Alco heaven at the time, with the L&N handling unprecedented coal volume.
Yes, I did mean Skokie Illinois. Just forgot to put IL. It seems weird to me how there isn't a picture of it online. Doug
I have a few photos of the CTA's Skokie Swift in the station, but none of the station. This is from about 1975. That's the North Shore's Dempster Tower in the background. Long removed from service, it was razed in 2007.
Nope, it is a spur that used to serve a Phillips and Standard distribution plant. It has MOW equipment stored on it today, and the rails have been pulled out of the crossing of N. Pearson St.
Heavy metal! Nice station wagons. They had as much room inside back then as there is in what they call a van these days! Heck, in my '69 Newport there was as much room in the trunk as there is inside an entire subcompact now.
Nice variation of car colors too, quite the contrast from black, white, silver and gray that dominate today.
Yes!! Our family had a '71 Olds "Vista Cruiser"! Looked just like the one second from the right, color and all! Us little kids sat in the rearward facing seat-doing the horn honk arm motion to truckers behind us! Great memories!
Cheaper by the dozen, Southern Railway assembles a few units on a drizzly autumn day in 1977 at Knoxville, TN.
