Feb 28, 2020
Monroe Street Overpass
This is the Illinois Central as seen from the Monroe Street overpass in Chicago. That’s the Art Institute on either side of the tracks—as well as a hallway over the top to connect the two.
The Highliner one sees in the first image was from a batch built in 1971 by the St. Louis Car Company; they were retired in 2016. And I’m assuming that’s a string of classic fifty-foot boxcars stored on an adjacent track. My contact in Chciago, David Daruszka, says that the cars were parked there to lay claim to the land under the track, which was originally filled-in Lake Michigan.
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken circa 1980.
