Chicago in the 1940s

Great photos!

Thanks for sharing these fantastic photos.

Awesome photo collection!

Thanks for posting !!

These are the best I've seen. Well done AND in color!

John

really enjoyed that! thanks for sharing!!

Love #2.

Dick

Thanks for sharing those great photos.  

Love the photos!  Thanks for sharing!

Excellent photos, really enjoyed them - I wanted more!

Wow, amazing trip back in time with photos on a par with todays best digital quality.  Stunning!

Thanks for the link  Farmer Bill !

Very nice. I love the guys in the ticket office. Thanks!

Very interesting photos,thanks for posting the link.

Just visit Shorpy.com. All these photos and thousands more, in many categories, are there. For example here are some of Jacob Ovcharovis' (a.k.a. Jack Delano) photos:

 http://www.shorpy.com/jack-delano-photos

Here's one of my favorite 1943 Delano photos, and the almost comparable scene taken by me on September 17.

Hotbox posted:

Just visit Shorpy.com. All these photos and thousands more, in many categories, are there. For example here are some of Jacob Ovcharovis' (a.k.a. Jack Delano) photos:

 http://www.shorpy.com/jack-delano-photos

I've spent a lot of time on Shorpy over the past few years. I love the "enlargement" option...especially for the older fine-grain B&W photos.

Joe Hohmann posted:

Hotbox posted:

Just visit Shorpy.com. All these photos and thousands more, in many categories, are there. For example here are some of Jacob Ovcharovis' (a.k.a. Jack Delano) photos:

 http://www.shorpy.com/jack-delano-photos

I've spent a lot of time on Shorpy over the past few years. I love the "enlargement" option...especially for the older fine-grain B&W photos.

I spend a lot of time there too. Outstanding pictures and great history lessons if you read the captions and comments. I currently have 9,416 large format pictures from the site downloaded onto my laptop and running randomly in the background as a slideshow. I download about 10-12 pictures per week. Never get tired of them .

Thanks for posting these great photos. 

Good evening, to me these photo shows the real grit of everyday railroading.

I think a lot of us look at the glamour side of the railroads whether its the by gone days of steam or the modern day class one railroads,but forget the men and women behind the scenes that a make it happen day in and day out. 

To me, that's what these pictures shows us.

Great shots.  Really puts you in the scene.  Color makes a big difference here.