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Old Burnside Yard (Chicago, Illinois) is a coach yard for suburban rail coaches, once owned by the Illinois Central Railroad.[1] Thomas Wilson was a locomotive engineer at the I.C.R.R. at Burnside, beginning in 1888.[2]

References

  1. ^ Freeman, William. Goss, Myrick. Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals. 1915. Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. 532.
  2. ^ Railroad Historical Company. 1900. History of the Illinois Central and Representative Employees. 475.