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  2. Bensenville Yard - Wikipedia

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    Bensenville Yard is a Canadian Pacific Kansas City freight and switching yard located in Bensenville and Franklin Park, Illinois.It is located 15 miles (25 km) northwest of Chicago, below O'Hare International Airport.

  3. Upper 61st and Lower 63rd Yards - Wikipedia

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    The heavy maintenance services of the 61st Yard shops were moved to the Skokie Shops in the early 1950s. [1] In 1966, the Upper 61st Yard had a capacity of 188 cars, and the Lower 63rd Yard could store 88. [4] The yard complex was converted to a maintenance and storage facility for non-revenue equipment in the 1990s.

  4. Victory Auto Wreckers - Wikipedia

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    Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges. The commercial aired with limited changes from 1985 to 2015 ...

  5. Merritt-Chapman & Scott - Wikipedia

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    Merritt-Chapman & Scott, nicknamed "The Black Horse of the Sea", was a noted marine salvage and construction firm of the United States, with worldwide operations. The chief predecessor company was founded in the 1860s by Israel Merritt, but a large number of other firms were merged in over the course of the company's history.

  6. Big Muskie - Wikipedia

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    The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie company. [1] With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m 3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Illinois-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the ...

  7. Holt Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Holt's equipment was credited with helping the Allies to win the war. [10] As the war ended, the Holt company was left with huge surplus inventories of heavy-duty tractors ill-suited for the agricultural market, which had been dominated during the war by the Holt Company's primary competitor, C. L. Best.

  8. Clearing, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The area gets its name from the fact that farm goods from the area were "cleared" (delivered) through the airport and railroad yards. Clearing was first incorporated as a town in 1912, within the Township of Stickney. The Clearing area quickly became a part of Chicago in 1915 when the growing population needed services provided by the city. It ...

  9. Ruston-Bucyrus - Wikipedia

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    Gradually Universal Excavators designed by Bucyrus-Erie replaced Ruston & Hornsby designed models. The original range of standardised rope-operated machines included 10RB, 17RB, 19RB, and 33RB and were upgraded through some intermediate models including the 54RB to a main selling range in the 1960s of 22RB, 30RB, 38RB, 61RB, and 71RB.

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