While I was looking at slides the other day, I noticed this one. While I worked at Amtrak during the 1980's, I often took my cameras with me. Every chance I got, I photographed the trains and scen... (more)
I have always been fascinated by steelmaking and steel mills. During my time living in my native Chicago, I was very fortunate to view and photograph in and around many of the mills located there.... (more)
This is one of my favorite Pennsy photos. PRR EMD E8a 5768 and an EMD E7A pause at Englewood Union Station in southeast Chicago, making a station stop. Englewood was a major junction between the P... (more)
Another site I visited frequently was Pine Junction, a very busy location in Gary, IN. It was a junction between two different Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad subdivisions, the New York... (more)
Besides being a railroad town, Riverdale, IL also is a steelmaking center. Located along the Little Calumet River's east bank was Acme Steel, later Interlake Steel and, eventually again, Acme Stee... (more)