English: Original caption: "TYPICAL DISTRIBUTING STATION -- CHICAGO." Newly constructed coal delivery facilities in the basement of a building in the Chicago Loop served by the Illinois Tunnel Company (later, the Chicago Tunnel Company). Bruce Moffat identifies the location as "a building on the north side of Monroe between Wells and LaSalle that was occupied by the Illinois Telephone Construction Company."
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Rapid Tranist in New York City and Other Great Cities, The Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York, 1905; page 246. This photo was reprinted in Bruce Moffat, Forty Feet Below, Interurban Press, 1982; page 29 -- cropped to a slightly narrower format.
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Special Committe on Recognition of Members of the Chamber on the Rapid Transit Commission. No attribution of photo credit is given, but the photo was probably provided by the Illinois Tunnel Company.
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