File:MorganRackLocos.jpg

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English: Original captions: The Independent: "Branch Tunnels Leaving Main Shaft. Superintendent Jackson at Electric Lever of Train on the Left." Modern Machinery: "Showing Two Trains, one going South from State and Randolph and the other Train coming from the North, going South at State and Randolph Sts." Two locomotives on the Morgan third-rail rack trackage of the Illinois Tunnel Company. The locomotives were built by the Goodman Equipment Corporation. The composite image was formed by scaling both published versions to match and then overlaying them to mute the moiré patterns and sharpen the result.
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Source Composite of a) George W. Jackson, Freight Tunnels in Chicago, The Independent, Vol LVII, No. 2918 (Nov. 3, 1904);page 1018, and b) Frank C. Perkins, An Electric Underground Freight Railway, Modern Machinery, Vol XVIII, No. 6 (Dec. 1905); page 321.
Author George W. Jackson or Frank C. Perkins; photo probably provided by the Illinois Tunnel Company.
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Obviously from the same photo session, but there is a third man in the background and the tunnel lights are turned off.
Camera location41° 53′ 03.68″ N, 87° 37′ 40.43″ W  Heading=22.5° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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