With it's RS5T blaring, Arizona Eastern Railway 6070 blasts by the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant and over a couple of crossings as it works it's way back south towards Chicago Union Station.

On a beautiful afternoon in Chicago, the AZER 6070 pulls out of Chicago Union Station, preparing to wye its passenger train.

Returning from a trip to Sturtevant, WI - Iowa Pacific's "brunch train" returns back to Chicago, passing still-manned Tower A5 on Chicago's west side. NOTE: Taken on Metra property with permission... (more)

WIth a plume of smoke provided by engineer Craig Willett, Iowa Pacific's Friday Night Dinner train ducks under the PRR position lights at Racine Avenue on Chicago's near west side. Special thanks ... (more)

A wonderful change of pace from the red GEs... the Pullman Sleeping Car Co. brunch charter rolls back into Illinois.

A New York Central E8 being serviced after bringing a southbound passenger train to the diesel to electric power-change point of Croton-Harmon.

I think this is the westbound combined Empire Builder and North Coast Ltd west of Chicago on the Triple Track. Kodachrome II film.

The Arizona Eastern 6070 smokes it up, as it departs Chicago Union Station, bound for Indianapolis. It really takes you back to the glory days, when the old BN E's were chugging out of Union Stati... (more)

Amtrak and SCL power working at Raleigh, NC in August 1973

MARC comuter trains lay over in the CSX yard at Brunswick, Md. on August 1, 1992.

A southbound Amtrak train pauses at the Poughkeepsie passenger station. (For a color version, click the flickr link on my profile page.)

The Pacific Limited is just about to pound the diamond with the Bessemer in Shenango, located just outside of Greenville. The train had spent the morning on the WNYP's Oil City Branch, and was no... (more)

Pacing Arizona Eastern E8A locomotive down route 33 as the train makes its journey from Chicago to Indianapolis.

With days until the start up of Conrail this group of E8's is trying to get a roll on 117 cars west from Marion toward the connection in Chicago. Most crews talked to on the west end preferred the... (more)