A solitary double-deck, cab-control coach leads Milwaukee's amply-powered commuter train at Grays Lake, Illinois, on Aug. 12, 1964, as it is about to cross the Soo Line. How would you like to be ... (more)
Rock Island E8A handles 9 "capone" commuter coaches with ease on an evening rush-hour train departing downtown Chicago.
Outbound commuter train rolls past stored Rock Island freight cars at the Burr Oak yard a year after the Rock's demise.
Burlington Northern E9s line up with commuter trains at Chicago Union Station in October 1983, waiting patiently for the workers of the Windy City to board for a trip home to the western suburbs.
A westbound Metra commuter train was entering the station at Hinsdale, IL on May 9, 1991, led by E9U No. 9921. On the far side the the three track main line, E9U No. 9916 was accelerating away sh... (more)
Taken from cab of BN 9922 pulling an outbound Dinkey with an inbound coming at us while on an inspection trip.
BN 9907 and 9908 making a run for the suburbs with a Dinkey so called because they were once small compared to the CB&Q's intercity trains. This Dinkey will make very few stops between Chicago and... (more)
Northwest Suburban Mass Transist District F40C 49 leads an outbound train past the Chicago suburban stop at Western Avenue. This unit later became Metra 609. Sears Tower looms in the background
Bridge is over the Indiana Harbor Belt main
The sole commuter train on the C&WI arrives from Dolton. IL. This could be the Susquehanna west with the RS-1 and Stillwell coaches of Erie heritage. This train was discontinued some five months l... (more)
Note the galley cars (double deck) required electricity but the E-unit only had a steam generator. Thus the Q added generators to some single level cars. The last car in this train has the gener... (more)
A real oddball, Rock Island EMD AB6 is accelerating out of Chicago's La Salle Street Station with a bi-level commuter train.
C&NW E8 5021A leads an afternoon commuter express at Park Ridge, Illinois.