A beautiful day on the 18th street bridge. Five Amtrak schemes (Phases III, IV, and V, Surfliner, and Cascade tucked away) are visible ... not to mention a Metra F40PH. Severely damaged AMTK 7 i... (more)

A CTA Orange Line train from Midway departs Roosevelt Street station for the Chicago Loop, through a canyon of buildings.

These look longer from the side view.

I had no inkling when I took this shot that it would be used to take President-elect Obama, our 44th president, from Philadelphia to DC.

A full house.

The Southwest Chief backs in from Amtrak's prep yard to Union Station.

A replacement for the BNSF switcher that usually works the Metra yards. A bit of a crummy retirement role for a locomotive built to run high-priority freight between Seattle and Chicago.

A green line train (I know because I actually hopped on it) heads south into the Adams & Wabash station. Next it will leave the Loop and head to the south side. The Donald's (Trump's) big tower ... (more)

Backing in for the early afternoon job.

Ouch. Amtrak 167 sustained a punch to the nose in a grade crossing accident in Auburn, IL, on October 10th. The southbound Amtrak Texas Eagle struck a grain truck loaded with corn at the ... (more)

Waiting for its turn to rush folks home.

The terminated Southwest Chief rounds the Canal Street Wye to position itself for servicing and redeployment.

Doesn't look cold in this picture, but it was. And windy ... A Hiawatha is just a couple minutes into its journey from Chicago to Milwaukee.

The Hoosier State departs Chicago with modified NPCU 90225 (already sporting a little graffiti!) and a damaged P42 headed for Beech Grove.

Three generations of Amtrak schemes sit about in the Amtrak shop area.

NS 5146 will rest here overnight, needing a new NS crew to move it after Metra/Amtrak morning rush the following day.