Hammond photos

[Tim T Swan]

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.

[Tim T Swan]

More Gary Wilson Hammond photos.

[Tim T Swan]

One more by Gary Wilson.

[Ryan Rybarczyk]

Thanks for sharing!

[Bob Lalich]

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?

[Eric Reinert]

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

[Eric Reinert]

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.