The engineer waves at us as the westbound Illinois Zephyr passes a crewvan and the 693 sent to resuce today's BRCGAL. See 33... (more)
The JB Tower operator gives a wave to a northbound CN train as it crosses the UP and Washington St.
WB Chief or Zephyr makes it's way through one of the many snow storms of early 2009.
"The parts store." To make room for the still operable, but currently unassigned 1209 and CBQ inspired 1206, the 1208 was moved recently to south of Cermak. The cab is boarded and chained. The ... (more)
The moon rises over an outbound express train and...my bike!
What's he pointing to? Maybe the next dinky coming up.
This one's for numerologists-number 123 being repositioned at Amtrak's coach yard on a perfect blue sky day!
An outbound Metra passes up an eastbound "Z" train. Although freights are rare during the rushes, the most common is eastbound "Z" trains.
The crew of Y JOL101 has finished switching and is about to put it's train back together and head back to Joliet yard.
The BNSF conductor waits for everyone to board before giving the engineer a highball.
My 250th RP shot is an eastbound stack train from the Pacific northwest breaking onto the commuter rush scene in beautiful glint light.
A stack train goes by "stack." A storm brews as an eastbound stack train heads toward Chicago. I was waiting for SP 4449.
The last train to run under the old CBQ signal whisltes freely past BNSF and tree contract workers. See 357746 to ... (more)
CS...missing the "X" since at least July, 2010, the CSXT 4812 leads a hopper train westbound at the beginning of the afternoon rush.
One of the 40th anniversary locomotives arrives on an inbound Hiawatha from Milwaukee.
