>The first elevated line in Chicago built was by the South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company, which was created in part to transport people to the World’s Fair in 1893 from downtown in the alley behind Wabash. They were pulled by steam engines at first.
Here’s the Stony Island Avenue Station and a view of the Fair. You can see the sign calls it the ‘Alley L.’.
niftyjack says
>The first elevated line in Chicago built was by the South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company, which was created in part to transport people to the World’s Fair in 1893 from downtown in the alley behind Wabash. They were pulled by steam engines at first.
Here’s the Stony Island Avenue Station and a view of the Fair. You can see the sign calls it the ‘Alley L.’.
The train line has since been truncated, now ending at the Cottage Grove terminus on what is now the green line, seen [here.](https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7804074,-87.6054751,3a,75y,264.06h,91.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s07cGjwjOD0bMePr_hJHvrg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e2)
Image and caption sourced from the Facebook group *Windy City Historians.*
freddythefuckingfish says
Obligatory Devil in the White City
shitterwasfull says
They took a lot of L’s after this