A northbound Soo Line transfer freight passes under Ogden Avenue overpass at La Grange, Illinois, on the afternoon of February 7, 1987. Soo EMD SW1500 No. 1400 is former Minneapolis, Northfield & ... (more)

Burlington Northern train 3 hurries westbound through Eola, Illinois, on a sunny December 23, 1988. Tiger-stripe EMD GP50 No. 3124 and a cabless GE B30-7AB unit power the Seattle-bound piggyback t... (more)

Warm colors of dawn are breaking on the eastern horizon as a Metra commuter train rushes toward Chicago on a high green over Track 2 at Naperville, Illinois, on November 9, 2017. The view is throu... (more)

At Union Pacific’s locomotive facility at the railroad’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal, the service track equipped with a drop pit is well lit at night as seen on the eve of November 8, 2010.

An outbound Metra commuter train negotiates the maze of trackage leading from Chicago Union Station on April 17, 2009.

Conrail’s SFEL4 freight off the Santa Fe makes a beeline through Chesterton, Indiana, over the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart Yard main line on the bright morning of June 24, 1990.

BNSF’s Sandpoint local hurries through Algoma on its way to Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 2, 2023. The train is powered by a pair of EMD GP50s, Nos. 3126 and 3121, spliced by EMD GP40M No. 3011.

Powered by GP20C-ECO No. 2241, a Canadian Pacific track geometry train rolls eastbound west of Drynoch, British Columbia, in the Thompson River Canyon on July 16, 2014.

In a wintery setting along Montana’s Clark Fork, a BNSF grain train heads west toward Spokane over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Trout Creek on February 4, 2023.

Amtrak GE P42DC and P32BWH locomotives, along with former EMD F40PH units converted to NPCU cab cars, rest outside Amtrak’s Locomotive Service Building at Chicago, Illinois, on April 17, 2009.

A westbound BNSF coal train traverses the fill alongside Barr Lake at Barr, Colorado, on the BNSF’s Brush Subdivision east of Denver at sunrise on December 2, 2010.

After a descent overnight snowfall, a westbound Union Pacific coal train makes its way west through Crescent, Colorado, on the sunny morning of March 27, 2009.

Even though the exterior of the Metra station at Stone Avenue features elegant stone arches leading to the platform lining BNSF’s Chicago to Aurora main line, the interior is remarkably basic, w... (more)

An eastbound Metra commuter train rolls toward a stop at Stone Avenue at La Grange, Illinois, on a rainy spring day. It was certainly nice to stay dry under the large, protected eves of the statio... (more)

Framed by the graceful stone arches of the station at Stone Avenue in La Grange, Illinois, is Amtrak’s California Zephyr speeding west on April 19, 2009.