Polk St. Tower was located at the south end of Rock Island's LaSalle St. Station in downtown Chicago. It controlled the trackage coming into the stub ended station. Rock Island was handling commut... (more)

Amtrak Midwest takes a day off at Chicago Amtrak Yard.

OMLX GP38-2 1000 in primer paint switches the CRL Yard in Chicago..

Metra 87 approaches downtown Chicago with a inbound UPW train.

Metra 163 leads a outbound train out of downtown Chicago.

Seen high above Bronzeville in Chicago, CNs L536 transfer crawls out of the city with two Illinois Central paint SD70s for power.

CNs Glenn to Kirk transfer winds along the Chicago sub with a pair of CNs finest SD70s. Both still sporting the Illinois Central “Deathstar” scheme, an icon to the Chicago area.

BN 9984 dressed in an early attempt at a BN color scheme for former CB&Q E units idles at a platform in Chicago Union Station with a "Dinky", the nickname often associated with Burlingto... (more)

Amtrak P42 154 departs Chicago with the Westbound Empire Builder.

Metra 99 leads a outbound train under the signal bridge at CP Morgan in Chicago.

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief departs Chicago for Los Angeles on a forty-one hour journey through America’s heartland and southwest on the afternoon of April 17, 2009.

Photo by Tony Vanier, from my collection.

Coming and going with a pair of Metra commuter trains operating on the BNSF west line in a view from Roosevelt Road overpass on April 17, 2009. Metra EMD F40PHM-2 No. 200 has been idle for a while... (more)

GTW GP9R 4632 departs South Chicago with Eastbound CN L512.

GTW GP9R 4632 departs South Chicago with Eastbound CN L512.