Photographed on September 28, 1961 from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge two NYC E8's 4092 and 4095 idle at Chicago's La Salle Street Station waiting for its next assignment. The E8 4092 was experim... (more)

A fascinating maze of trackage outside Chicago Union Station is about to be negotiated by an outbound Metra commuter train on April 17, 2009.

A treasure in Chicago's south side is Reserve Marine Terminals' former Santa Fe F7A #342L. Now leased by Horizon Rail as a rebuilt CF7, the 70 year old veteran (04/1953) is hard at work bringing a... (more)

Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

Amtrak EMD SW8 No 749 switches some Heritage Fleet passenger cars on the tracks adjoining the railroad’s Chicago, Illinois, locomotive facility in a view from the 18th Street overpass on Februar... (more)

Amtrak 791 sits buried in a flocking of snow in its special place behind the Amtrak Locomotive Facility in Chicago.

Still adorned in Illinois Central Gulf orange-and-white colors, Chicago Central & Pacific GP8 No. 7985 and GP10 No. 8188 lead a CC train around a curve at 55th Street Interlocking on the Belt Rail... (more)

The New SD70MACH's 503 and 502 sit at the METRA mechanical shops in downtown Chicago Illinois. These will be on the rails very soon testing!

The southern throat trackage of Chicago Union Station can get busy as two long-distance Amtrak trains meet, and an inbound Metra commuter train is about to disappear into the dark depths of the st... (more)

Amtrak 4626 Leads Southbound out of Chicago Union Station and rolls past the Amtrak shops at 18th Street on a very rainy and windy Sunday. In the background the tops of buildings are shrouded in c... (more)

Amtrak’s Chicago, Illinois, locomotive facility hosts Grand Trunk Western EMD GP40-2 No. 6413 amongst the usual plethora of Amtrak EMD F40PH locomotives on September 1, 1991.

Norfolk Southern Train NS 880 Loaded Coal Train rolls South at 18th Street in downtown Chicago Illinois. BNSF 8563 leads 130 loaded cars with a rear BNSF DPU. The Fog and clouds hide the tops of t... (more)

Rolling out of Union Station, two bald PRR E8s 4255 and 4297 leading train 22 the Manhattan Limited on its journey to New York on June 19, 1968. Photo by photographer's name not listed, from my... (more)

After a setback on the BNs side, a late string of coal loads crawls uphill out of Chicago towards the Cleveland Cliffs power plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana. Todays train has a pair of SD38s sandwi... (more)

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)