Sunday, May 12, 2019

PHOTO - CHICAGO - CHICAGO SOUTH SHORE AND SOUTH BEND COMMUTER ELECTRIC TRAIN - SOUTH END OF A PLATFORM FOR RANDOLPH STREET STATION (STATION SERVED ILLINOIS CENTRAL ELECTRIC COMMUTERS AS WELL AS "SHORE LINE" COMMUTERS) - PRUDENTIAL BUILDING IN BACKGROUND - NOTE: AMONG "RAIL FANS" THE SHORE LINE RR HOLDS A KIND OF LEGENDARY STATUS AND AFFECTION LIKELY OWING AT LEAST IN PART TO ITS ROUTE ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN SHORES INTO INDIANA - THERE WAS ALSO A FAMOUS ARTISTIC POSTER ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN FOR THE SHORE LINE IN THE 1920s, COPIES OF WHICH ARE STILL POPULAR (SOME ARE ON THE SITE) - c1960s - EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER