After slowing for a track defect, the Silver Pilot races back to track speed rolling through the TP&W crossing at Bushnell.
Departing Chicago Union Station for the first time since 1968, the CB&Q 9911-A is looking great for the all the photographers lined up on the Roosevelt Road overpass.
Its 5:00 PM departure time from Dallas Union Station has arrived, and the Sam Houston Zephyr is on its way. The 283 miles to Houston lie ahead. The Southern Pacific Sunbeam is scheduled to le... (more)
The Nebraska Zephyr along with CBQ SW7 9255 and CNW F7(A) 411 make their way through the switches and back on IRM grounds after a successful trip to Rock Island for Train Festival 2011. Railroad: Chicago Burlington & Quincy RailroadLocomotive: EMD E5(A)Location: Union, Illinois, USALocomotive #: CBQ 9911-ATrain ID: Nebraska ZephyrPhoto Date: July 26, 2011
Bridge is over the Indiana Harbor Belt main
Union Avenue Tower was the west corner of the wye south of Union Station. It had a pistol grip machine. The top center (north) of the track diagram are the connections to the CNW and St. Charle... (more)
Burlington's Denver Zephyr surprised me while I was waiting for the mail train in the background (shown in image 354169). It came out of nowhere and was by me in a flash. It had to be hitting at l... (more)
An EMD E9 is stopped at Aurora with the westbound NP NORTH COAST LIMITED. This train always had the cleanest E units the few times that I saw it. This was my "Burlington day" during that week but ... (more)
A CB&Q E8 leads three other E units on a very long DENVER ZEPHYR inbound to Chicago.
Two Burlington E8 units power the Northern Pacific's NORTH COAST LIMITED from Union Station. There is a Budd Slumbercoach several cars back. This was the summer of the Seattle World's Fair.
IRM's CB&Q E5 leads a classy looking passenger train during its Diesel Days weekend.
A nine car, Denver-only Amtrak #5 heads into the late March sun as seen from the EJ&E overhead at East Eola. The nine car train is completely stainless steel except for a BN office car on the rea... (more)
46 Years Later A recreation of Marty Bernard's 1964 photo, not too much has changed since the later days of the CB&Q. The p... (more)
The shovel nose displayed proudly at the MSI in Chicago.
