The 2023 CTA Holiday Train heads South around the curve at 73rd Street on the Red Line.

The Chicago Rail Link is seen working Irondale Yard at 117th Street.

Van Buren Street. Outbound Metra Electric District train 115, led by Highliner II car no. 1247 (Nippon Sharyo, 2012-2016) arrives at Van Buren Street Station, deep in the trench along G... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern piggyback train curves under the signal bridge at 5th Street in Mendota, Illinois, at 9:35 a.m. on May 2, 1992.

Roughly seven months ago, when I had first gotten my drone, I attempted a shot of Amtrak 203, the Operation Lifesaver unit, leading the westbound California Zephyr in Naperville, IL as the unit sa... (more)

HZRX CF7 #1500 is still earning its keep in 2023 at South Chicago Recycling off Avenue O and 116th Street. The engine is leased from Horizon Rail, or HZRX. It was originally built as a F7A for the... (more)

Milwaukee District North Line train #2621 with the Milwaukee heritage MP36 is seen through the former West Side Elevated bride at Paulina Street.

A fleet of Metra bi-level cab cars facing Chicago’s Loop with commuter trains, wait out the work day laying over at the BNSF/Metra coach yard along Canal Street at Chicago, Illinois, as seen fro... (more)

AMTK 519 leads Hiawatha train #339 out of Chicago passing under the signal bridge at Green Street.

Amtrak 161, the Phase I heritage unit, leads the Southwest Chief West past the Main Street depot in Downers Grove.

Milwaukee District North Line train #2143 passes under the signal bridge at Green Street.

IC 1037 Leads the CN Local train from Homewood Illinois to Kirk Yard. Here they roll along 16th street under the L-train loop in downtown Chicago

CN 5262 leads a 8:18 late City of New Orleans into Chicago as it pulls past 21st Street interlocking where it'll shove back into Chicago Union Station.

An Indiana Harbor Belt freight train rolls underneath the old Rock Island overpass, now owned and run by Metra and used by Iowa Interstate Railroad, at Blue Island, Illinois, on a rainy October 10... (more)

Metra's CB&Q heritage engine is seen heading into downtown Chicago as it passes the Amtrak's 14th Street Yard.