A couple decades before Millennium Park would bury this scene underground, fifty-year-old South Shore MUs wait out the midday lull at Randolph Street Station in Chicago.

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, a pair of the South Shore Line's heavyweight interurbans wait out the weekend at the Michigan City shops. Built in 1926-27, these durable Pullman-Standard cars would l... (more)

Back when the South Shore Line ran heavyweight interurban cars, a two-car South Bend-Chicago train train departed the streetfront station in Michigan City, IN, on a summer afternoon.

I really enjoyed seeing SN 1005 out and about on its old home rails. Years ago I remember when it was stored in the old WP roundhouse in Oakland, waiting for a home. I don't see many pix of the ... (more)

The Western Railway Museum's annual spring Scenic Limited passes through Garfield as it heads back toward Rio Vista Junction following its run to Birds Landing. After a wet winter the hills are l... (more)

The Western Railway Museum's SN 1005 and two trailers heads north from Birds Landing on the former SN mainline. In the background is the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers where ... (more)

With more than fifty years of service behind them, these former Lackawanna heavyweight MUs now employed by New Jersey Transit deserved a day of rest. They were spending the weekend laying over at ... (more)

A few minutes out of Hoboken on their way to the suburbs, a set of 51-year-old former Lackawanna MUs now working for New Jersey Transit emerges from the west portal of the Bergen Hill tunnel in Je... (more)

South Shore(NICTD) departs Chicago along Michigan Avenue. In younger days, the Prudential building in the background was Chicago's tallest.

A six-car set of Canadian National MUs bound from Gare Centrale in Montreal to suburban Deux Montangnes enters the station at Val Royal, Quebec, on a summer afternoon. These cars were retired when... (more)

A six-car set of Canadian National MUs lays over at Deux Montangnes, Quebec, the end of CN's 17-mile-long suburban electric zone, before returning to downtown Montreal. CN bought 18 of these DC-po... (more)

Up until the arrival of the M2 class modern MUs in the early 1970s, the New Haven's electrified New Canaan branch had the look of a country interurban in off-peak hours as a single car covered the... (more)

A set of former New Haven Pullman-Standard MUs running as a Penn Central Stamford-Grand Central local swings into the station at Rye, NY, on a winter day. The unique triangular catenary, since rep... (more)

A two-car South Shore Line train en route from Chicago to Michigan City pauses at the classic little station at Beverly Shores, IN. Both the station and the cars date to the late 1920's, when the ... (more)

Elderly South Shore Line interurbans that have passed their fiftieth year in service wait out the midday traffic lull at the old Randolph Street Station in Chicago. This open-air area was complete... (more)