The extremely short-lived Mon-Wed-Fri 100th St. local assignment shoves 31 cement hoppers up the BRC's South Chicago Industrial Lead, toward Commercial Avenue Yard. An unseasonably warm day and my... (more)
It's the train they call the City of New Orleans. Amtrak 59, The City of New Orleans, begins its journey out of Chicago IL on a beautiful windy city evening.
Artery. A Red Line train to 95th races down the median of the Dan Ryan expressway. The roadway is one of the city's main arteries from the suburbs and a campaign recent to when the photo wa... (more)
A new Amtrak GE P32BWH shows off its new colors at Amtrak’s locomotive facility in Chicago, Illinois, as older EMD F40PH No. 299 stands by in the background on a sunny February 22, 1992.
Four Pennsy E8's on the lead of The General, shortly before the late afternoon departure time from Chicago's Union Station. From my collection, Photo by Walter Peters.
Two For One. Metra F40PH-3s 105 (9/1977) and 119 (10/1977) have just passed under CP Taylor and arrive at Chicago Union Station on the evening of Tuesday, January 26, 2021. The streamlined ... (more)
A gleaming set of C&O F-units in their high-wave paint scheme, on lead of the Chicago Division's freight train in this 1960 view at Hegewisch, Illinois. Photographer E.L Huddleston, from my colle... (more)
Tom Golden photo.
The sun begins to set during another busy weekday evening in Downtown Chicago as Southwest Service train 823 heads south out of the South Concourse of Chicago Union Station (CUS).
CTA Brown Line about to pull into Adam's and Wabash in the Loop
Green Line train #609 approaching Clinton while crossing over the Chicago River
Metra UP-North leaving Chicago out of Ogilvie Transportation Center. The snow had cleared up from the earlier half of the afternoon in time for some of the low sunlight before night would fall. ... (more)
CTA Brown Line train approaching the Adam's and Wabash stop in the loop.
Camper. Metra 200, an F40PHM-2 "Winnebago", leads a train under the tri-lights south of Chicago Union Station.
