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Unique Subway System Moves Chicago Freight Underground
An early 20th century feature describes Chicago’s freight subway, a 22 block by nine block loop beneath the Loop, with 62 miles of track, 182 electric locomotives, and 6,000,000 tons of merchandise per year. The system, opened 1901 and finished 1909, handles freight, ashes, dirt, and even mail transfers between stations, maintaining 56 degrees year round and using electric pumps and shaft unloading for efficient downtown delivery.
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