Triple Action! One Metra train, recently departed from Union Station, passes under two Metra movements in the north throat of the Ogilvie Transportation Center (ex-C&NW). A brief walk fol... (more)
The Champion and still so in the eyes of many. On display at the WUS 100th Anniversary celebration.
A station worker goes about his business as matched pair 514/513 bookend a MoW train waiting for its next assignment.
If the horns don't burst your eardrums, the voltage will fry your nervous system.
Where are the cows? Where are the cows? Send in the cows! Not being hungry for whatever sort of feed is provided here, they have wandered over trackside behind the barn, although I doubt... (more)
Note the Soo Line freight terminal on the left. This was the BN (ex CB&Q) 14th Street Commuter Locomotive Facility, commonly known as the Zephyr Pit. Thanks to those who contacted me with the lo... (more)
Mouth of the beast? Throat of the beast? This view of the tender, from the cab, shows the auger of the stoker. The coal would pass under the cab and into the firebox.
The meet ends! The speeding NB Acela has just passed the SB Carolinean (Amtrak 79), disappearing in the distance, as it accelerates north from Union Station. For a shot of the regional, s... (more)
The things one doesn't notice! In making this expected-to-be routine going-away shot of the Carolinean, I didn't see that a NB Acela had just peeked around the curve! For a shot of the Acela, se... (more)
A light engine move heads NE underneath South Tower. The decorative (and support) tower just to the right displays the "B" of the Belgium regional trains.
The modern, colorful station complex building in Brussels sees dozens, probably hundreds, of trains each day, local to international express. Here, two trains set off simultaneously to the NE. N... (more)
Double Slip Switches! Plenty of interesting trackwork and lots of trains at the main Brussels station.
The South Tower (Tour du Midi/Zuidertoren) dominates the sky at the main station.
This TGV appears ready to launch down the track, but it will first ease its way through the city before getting up to 180 mph.
A TGV trainset eases into Brussels Midi to pick up passengers heading west.
