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Title: Hammond photos
Post by: Tim T Swan on October 06, 2013, 05:17:33 pm

Found the attached among a bunch of Hammond Erie-Lackawanna photos by one Gary Wilson in the late '60's.  Don't recall seeing these before.

Title: Re: Hammond photos
Post by: Tim T Swan on October 06, 2013, 05:20:06 pm

More Gary Wilson Hammond photos.

Title: Re: Hammond photos
Post by: Tim T Swan on October 06, 2013, 05:26:40 pm

One more by Gary Wilson.

Title: Re: Hammond photos
Post by: Ryan Rybarczyk on October 06, 2013, 05:52:22 pm

Thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: Hammond photos
Post by: Bob Lalich on February 04, 2014, 12:15:52 pm

I have not seen the Gary Wilson photos before. There is an old wooden reefer sitting on the Borden siding. Was a car like that still approved for service in 1968?

Title: Re: Hammond photos
Post by: Eric Reinert on February 04, 2014, 01:42:44 pm

Bob,

That reefer sat there for a lot of years. I just recently saw a batch of family photos taken during  a parade in Hammond that shows it sitting there in 1956 in the same spot.  Borden must've used it for storage.
These Gary Wilson photos and more are on a picture CD I just bought from the Mid-America Heritage Preservation Foundation. (MAHPfoundation.org) The CD is titled "Erie Lackawanna Yard in Hammond Indiana" or something similar.  They have a lot of historical photos, movie footage, etc. from the Hammond area.

Eric Reinert

Title: Re: Hammond photos
Post by: Eric Reinert on November 13, 2016, 11:03:17 pm

While re-reviewing the photos on the Gary Wilson E-L photo CD, I found a couple more photos with Monon content that I missed at first. This is the Fuel Oil and Coal Company across from the "new" South Hammond Freight House. You can see a corner of the freighthouse in one and a Monon NW-2 at the edge of the other. Both are Dated May 1968. A little bit different from the photo I reposted from some time ago showing this Company with the brand new Freighthouse in the background.