Amtrak 16 leads a 7 car train out of Chicago Union Station with the impressive skyline in the near distance.

Santa Fe's fueling facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago features service with a smile. U36C 8752 (foreground) and U30CG 8005 drink it all in.

Amtrak 518 "the De Facto switcher" assorts some superliner cars on a wonderful August afternoon in downtown Chicago.

It is 0200 on a quite monday morning in Chicago, while out for night photography we came across Amtrak's yard to find a lone P42DC nestled behind a shop and crowded superliner cars.

A Norfolk Southern whitehead leads UP ZEMCH, a Triple Crown Roadrailer train towards Landers Yard at La Grange, Il on IHB trackage.

Commuter RTA106 with some old coaches somewhere in Chicago

Fresh painted E9A 9907 poses at the BN yards of Chicago after beeing rebuilt at Morrison Knudson's at Boise, Idaho

176 is ready for its next run on this summer evening.

Eastbound 182 stack train passes the Grayland Metra shack with a rebuilt SD60 in charge. This train was cut just 5 days after this photo was taken. Cars from this train are now forwarded on 290.

A pair of BRC C424s brings a transfer to Clearing Yard. Tom Golden photo.

As a CB&Q switcher putters in Burlington's coach yard, GM&O Train 1, "The Limited," with E7 103A and E8 100A, leaves Chicago on Aug. 1, 1968, taken from railfan's favorite overlook -- Roosevelt Av... (more)

The morning rush hour is in full swing at the semaphore protected former CNW Clinton Street tower. If my memory serves me correctly, Clinton Street was the point at which seven tracks coming in fr... (more)

A Chicago & North Western freight heads for Wisconsin at Bryn Mawr, Illinois, in August 1984.

Tucked inside Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, across from one of the largest and coolest HO layouts ever, is this little steam locomotive with quite a story of it's own which goes someth... (more)