Light Engine Move at 21st Street

A CTA train crossing over Washington Street.

Texas Chief ready to depart Dearborn Station Chicago

One of Metra's new SD70Macs leading a Westbound train out of CUS in downtown Chicago. These things are sweet.

METX 82 shoving into Ogilvie Transportation Center on the CNW. Ogilvie is the sixth busiest railway station in North America.

IC 1015 and another EMD SD70 companion leading L536 down the Chicago Sub, as it leaves the city of Chicago behind it.

CN L536 and a CTA Orange Line train over undering in downtown Chicago.

CGW early paint at Chicago https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

BNSF 743 is only about 2 months old, with two more apparently from the same vintage. They sit over Cicero Ave awaiting their entrance into Corwith Yard.

The Rock Island continued their own passenger service past Amtrak startup The Rock Island train from the Quad Cities nears LaSalle Street Station.

If Rock Island had adopted an all-yellow paint scheme in anticipation of the doomed UP merger this might have been the result; an all yellow E8 661 former UP 941 glow in early morning light a... (more)

Storms rolling through as METX 148 Village of Fox Lake leaves outbound from Olgive Transportation Center, in downtown Chicago, Illinois

City of New Orleans outbound from Chicago crosses South Branch of Chicago River on St. Charles Airline Bridge

Broadway Limited approaches 21st lift bridge

Rock Island's GP-7's were not equipped for suburban service, and so 1217 must be functioning as a switcher or pilot rather than the motive power for the whole train. That duty is probably going ... (more)