Two Sun Bleached Noses After Years of Facing West

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Jonelle DeFelice	General	Look at that trackwork!	5/13/2007 3:19:25 PM

Ron Moraca	General	Excellent photo, Marty! Will ya look at that steel spaghetti!	10/10/2008 9:13:34 PM

Chuck Zeiler	General	I worked in the building you called Big Stan, and the people that used that building referred to it as the SOB (Standard Oil Building), so the owners informally renamed it the Amoco Building. It was an interesting ride in the elevators during days of high winds. The building would sway a few feet at the top, and the elevators would scrape the sides of the shafts as they moved up and down. Scary sounds that could be heard in the elevators and in the offices! It was fun to watch a cup of coffee on your desk slosh around.	5/1/2014 12:39:32 PM

Two Sun Bleached Noses After Years of Facing West
Taken three miles west of State Street at Western Avenue Interlocking where the Milwaukee Road tracks from Union Station turn to the north and in the process cross the CNW tracks from its downtown station. Note the double-slip switches and the different signal heads for each road. #49 had an outbound train while #54 was inbound and had just left the interlocking plant. The tall white building in the background was the Standard Oil Building (Big Stan) a couple blocks east of State Street. Big Stan is now called the Aon Center but remains the third tallest building in the United States.
Date: 8/18/1982	Location: Chicago, IL Map	Views: 978	Collection Of: Marty Bernard
Locomotives: MILW 49(F40C)			Author: Marty Bernard

Picture Categories: Signal,Track		This picture is part of album: Railfan44's Milwaukee Road Shots

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