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Section 52 - Freight Service/Ferry Truck




2-View of Trailer #70, doors open, loaded - 01/15/1929 (NSL Photo)




3-Tractor #70 backs up to trailer at Outbound MD station, under 'L' tracks - No Date (NSL Photo)




4-Cincinnati builders photo of MD Trailer #29 - No Date (NSL Photo)




5-Cincinnati builders photo of MD Trailer #29 - No Date (NSL Photo)




6-Cincinnati builders photo of MD Trailer #29 - No Date (NSL Photo)




7-Tractor #140 backs SSL trailer up to Bartlett Warehouse - 08/14/1928 (NSL Photo)




8-NSL Ferry Truck Trailer #28 and tractor on street, Kunzelmann-Esser. 710 W. Mitchell St, Milwaukee - 08/14/1928 (NSL Photo)




9-Ferry Truck and Trailer #28 near Sears Warehouse, Milwaukee - 08/14/1928 (NSL Photo)




10-Keeshin trailer on NSL Flatcar #2012 at Montrose (night) - 10/13/1936 (NSL Photo)




11-Tractor backing CSS&SB Ferry Truck trailer to sears warehouse - 09/29/1927 (NSL Photo)




12-Ferry truck tractor - No Date (NSL Photo)




13-Rear, possible builders photo, of Walters tractor - No Date (NSL Photo)




14-Rock Island tractor and trailer, Trailmobile Co - No Date (NSL Photo)




15-Tractor #702 pulling NSL Ferry Truck Trailer (no background) - 04/12/1923 (NSL Photo)




16-View South of North Chicago MD station, boxcar spotted, unloading barrels into truck - No Date (NSL Photo)




17-Side view (East Side) of North Chicago MD station showing dock and doors - No Date (NSL Photo)




18-View NE showing North Chicago MD station, boxcar spotted - No Date (NSL Photo)




19-View SW of Harrison St MD station - No Date (NSL Photo)




20-View of MD station under 'L' structure at 41st & Union, Stock Yards, with Ferry Truck trailers lined up - 10/16/1929 (NSL Photo)




21-View from dock of rear, Ferry Truck Trailer at Sears Roebuck, Chicago - 08/13/1928 (NSL Photo)




22-Elevated view showing CSS&SB tractors and trailers backed up to dock, Sears Roebuck Chicago, possibly #6513 or #6514 - 08/13/1928 (NSL Photo)




23-Side view of trailer under overhang - No Date (NSL Photo)




24-Side view of tractor and trailer under overhang - No Date (NSL Photo)




25-Tractor pulling trailer loaded with pipe and cable, under 'L' tracks - No Date (NSL Photo)




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