Metra commuter train 509 has just arrived in Joliet, Illinois, on November 12, 2018. Joliet is the end of the line, and soon this train will depart back to Chicago's La Salle Street station as tr... (more)

Amtrak train 390, the Saluki, arrives at Chicago's Union Station on November 8, 2018. This train is backing into the station after completing its run from Carbondale, in the southern part ... (more)

On November 8, 2018, Metra F40PH-2 180 backs its train into Chicago's Union Station in order to load it for the evening rush hour. This train will be heading to Aurora, Illinois. Meanwhile, an A... (more)

Union Station, in Kansas City, Missouri, was built in 1914, replacing the original depot that was built in 1878. The structure was constructed in the Beaux-Arts style, and consisted of a Grand Ha... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, arrives in Kansas City, Missouri, at about 10:00 pm (22:00) and spends 45 minutes in town while the train is serviced. On August 9, 2018, the... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, arrives in Kansas City, Missouri, on August 8, 2018. This train, heading from Chicago IL to Los Angeles CA behind P42DCs 162 and 71, is arriv... (more)

Big steam in the shadow of the Wasatch. Union Pacific's mighty Northern #844 steams in the yard at Ogden's Union Station on the eve of the sesquicentennial of the Transcontinental Railroad,... (more)

A Golden Spike in Ogden. UP Senior VP, Scott Moore joins several local dignitaries and a descendant of one of the Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad in a 150th anniv... (more)

Union Pacific - Building America! With "Living Legend" 844 as a backdrop, and flanked by local dignitaries and senior UP Management, UP Chairman and President Lance M. Fritz addre... (more)

CAF Urbos 3 streetcar of 'KC Streetcar' at the current final destination at the side of Kansas City's 'Union Station'

Thursday night, I made it out to Kansas City Union Station to shoot Amtrak no. 3 coming into town with an old Pepsi Can on the point. Here's the Southwest Chief, as it arrived in KC with the #5... (more)

Southern Pacific 4449 sits on track number 5 at the LA Union Station. After most of the crowd left, I had the opportunity to go up in the cab of 4449, and take all the photographs I wanted on the... (more)

Train #17, “The Plug”, awaits departure from Union Station.

The 'Minuteman' under partly cloudy skies. According to the slide notes, this is one of the first revenue runs for this unit. A J. C. Smith, Jr. original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

Seeing Double: CSX "576" does the honors of bringing NC&StL 4-8-4 576 back home to Nashville Union Station after six decades. Not much is still recognizable since the locomotive last appea... (more)