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C&NW’s Lake Street Tower, Chicago

By Angela Cotey | September 11, 2023

The diagram in the Lake Street interlocking tower for C&NW’s North Western Terminal in Chicago shows 16 station tracks and the complexity of the trackage at the throat of the terminal.
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