Three sisters elephant style take CZ passengers for a fast ride on the Chicago/Aurora raceway.

After idling in Union Station, the first time the engineer notched up all the built-up soot in the cylinders was blown out as these three elephant-style E7 ladies demonstrated. Photo taken from Ro... (more)

This shows why they call it the "race track." Headed for Chicago, CB&Q 9939B flies through suburban Hinsdale the morning of April 28, 1963 with the eastbound Denver Zephyr.

Which of the two Nebraska Zephyr train sets this is unknown so you are looking at either observation car Juno or Jupiter. The train sets were originally the 2nd Twin Cities Zephyr pair.

1st #30, AK-SAR-BEN Zephyr. Yes it is July, but the weeds between the pavers of the platform are not knee high yet.

Elephant-style eastbound E7As duck under Yender Road.

Two E7s speed the Morning Zephyr from the Twin Cities to Chicago in 1964. Chadwick is 120 miles from Chicago so it won't be long.

Chicago Burlington and Quincy E5A 9915B leads the Galesburg Local (Train #2) at 9:45 a.m. (9 minutes late) at Sandwich, Illinois (56 miles west of Chicago--due there at 10:45) on July 5, 1963. EMD... (more)

NP 155 is a SW 1200. You're looking at two grand old ladies, both beautiful in there own way.

Demoted to a yard switcher in Clinton, Iowa, EMD-Pullman built CB&Q Doodlebug 9769 rests in the sun on New Years Day 1966. The opposite end is also painted red and yellow for reverse running, see:... (more)

The second switcher is 9401A. Both of these switchers were built in 1949 as TR2s. The cows with cabs were numbered with an A. The cabless calf's number ended in B. They were rebuilt to standard N... (more)

#975 is a GP30.

With Empire Builder cars.