After waiting for a few Amtrak and Metra’s at 21st Street and 16th Street, L536 finally gets back underway departing Downtown Chicago passing 31st on the way towards Kirk Yard with two IC SD70â€... (more)

The 2022 Chicago Transit Authority Holiday Train splits the Eisenhower Expressway on the Blue Line, making a run out of Downtown before arriving at Forest Park.

A westbound Wisconsin Central freight, powered by a pair of EMD SD45s still in former Burlington Northern Cascade green, is crossing the St. Charles Air Line Bridge near Canal Street in Chicago, I... (more)

In a view from the Polk Street overpass, Conrail EMD SW1 No. 8429 rattles through trackage approaching Chicago Union Station in May 1983. The elderly locomotive was built for New York Central in M... (more)

Several new GE B32BWHs, EMD F40PHs and a former GO Transit GMD GP40TC gather at Amtrak’s locomotive facility at Chicago, Illinois, on February 22, 1992.

A brass band greets the last run of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend’s old interurban cars into Chicago’s Randolph Street Station on September 25, 1983. The six-car special train is led by... (more)

Amtrak's 'Pepsi Can' painted power is ready and waiting at the Lumber Street facility with the Chicago skyline and the 'Sears Tower' backdrop on a clear May first day in 1997.

It's blue hour, and the Christmas Season is in the air with the skyline of Chicago illuminated in Red and Green as we see the Southwest Chief in the foreground.

During 1962 ten Alco RS36's replaced the Nickel Plate's ten PA's. Alco 874 and EMD 480 accelerate out of LaSalle Station in July 1964, bound for Buffalo with #8 The New Yorker. Service continu... (more)

On Veterans Day 2022, Metra Rush Hour is underway at where Noble Street Tower once was as METX 151 heads into the last bit of evening golden hour with Metra 39 for Elburn while Metra’s Heritage ... (more)

ATSF 1226 was a San Bernadino rebuild from an SW9. 1226 was eventually sold to Amtrak.

UP 8459 leads a coal train South down the River Line in South Chicago, passing some fall colors.

A matching set of IC SD70’s throttle up with L536 through Kensington after waiting for a South Shore outbound to get out of the way.

It’s a beautiful, and warm fall morning in Downtown Chicago, as L536 winds out of Downtown Chicago at 35th Street with a matching set of IC SD70s, 1029 and 1007. Most of the time a straight shot... (more)

Loop Meet. Two Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) trains are seen meeting north of Quincy station on the Union Loop. The train at right is a 5000-Series Pink Line train (Bombardier, 2009-2... (more)