Repainted IC 9560 departs South Chicago with CN L512.

An ex PC unit, still showing evidence thereof, is switching an Amtrak train. Photo by Dave Petke.

Dash 2+Original GP40. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Looks a little naked without any number boards up there in front but it is a famous face in the service of the big city as one of its stablemates demonstrates.

CN SD40-2W 5262 leads Amtrak's Northbound City of New Orleans into the windy city. The SD40-2W was added after the Amtrak charger hit a tree down South.

After hitting a tree in southern Kentucky, Amtraks City of New Orleans train pushes back into Chicago’s Union Station after being rescued by a CN SD40-2W. Meeting them going south, another Amtra... (more)

On a hazy, yet sunny, Tuesday evening in downtown Chicago… a Wyoming coal train crawls under 18th street with loads for NS in Detroit. With railfans from all over the area in hot pursuit, this i... (more)

The south side of Chicago is full of treasures when it comes to trains. On the list of treasures is Maryland Pig Iron of Illinois' veteran Conrail SW8. Still in virtually untouched Conrail big blu... (more)

On March 11, 1989, a set of Chicago Central & Pacific locomotives rumble by Corwith Tower. This tower protected the Illinois Central (formerly ICG/GM&O) with Santa Fe tracks into Corwith Yard, and... (more)

Led by CNW 6831, 2nd 245 gets out of Wood St. Yard and crosses over to another track to clear the path for a southbound transfer. A short trip up this line reaches the east-west mainline near the ... (more)

CNW 6831 and mates have attached to a string of trailers on flat cars that will soon leave Wood St. Yard, Chicago as 2nd-245, The Falcon on a 12 hour race over the 500 mile C&NW mainline to the UP... (more)

C&NW branded its 1970s-80s intermodal service as Falcon Service and created a logo featuring a predatory falcon bird and this sign which decorated the yard office at the Henry to Wood St. Yard, Ch... (more)

UP 3535 rolls into C&NW's Wood St. Yard off the Rockwell Line that connects the yard to the mainline west of the CNW Chicago Station. This power which will be led West by CNW 6831 will be attached... (more)

Photographed on September 28, 1961 from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge two NYC E8's 4092 and 4095 idle at Chicago's La Salle Street Station waiting for its next assignment. The E8 4092 was experim... (more)

A fascinating maze of trackage outside Chicago Union Station is about to be negotiated by an outbound Metra commuter train on April 17, 2009.