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)

Amtrak Midwest takes a day off at Chicago Amtrak Yard.

OMLX GP38-2 1000 in primer paint switches the CRL Yard in Chicago..

Metra 87 approaches downtown Chicago with a inbound UPW train.

Metra 163 leads a outbound train out of downtown Chicago.

Seen high above Bronzeville in Chicago, CNs L536 transfer crawls out of the city with two Illinois Central paint SD70s for power.

CNs Glenn to Kirk transfer winds along the Chicago sub with a pair of CNs finest SD70s. Both still sporting the Illinois Central “Deathstar” scheme, an icon to the Chicago area.

BN 9984 dressed in an early attempt at a BN color scheme for former CB&Q E units idles at a platform in Chicago Union Station with a "Dinky", the nickname often associated with Burlingto... (more)

Amtrak P42 154 departs Chicago with the Westbound Empire Builder.

Metra 99 leads a outbound train under the signal bridge at CP Morgan in Chicago.

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief departs Chicago for Los Angeles on a forty-one hour journey through America’s heartland and southwest on the afternoon of April 17, 2009.

Photo by Tony Vanier, from my collection.