A northbound Blue line train has exited the subway two blocks back and enters the Damen station on the O'Hare branch along side Milwaukee AV.

Flagman rules are shown in effect...the outside Green line train has passed and the inside Orange line train awaits it's turn through the work zone. The portable track trip would trip the brakes ... (more)

A westbound Green line train, in the middle of a nonstop run of over a mile between Clinton and Ashland stations, seems to be fleeing from the downtown buildings ablaze at sunset.

Now that the Bombardier AC5000 test cars are assigned to the Green line for four weeks of testing, the new assignment brings the test train to the tracks pof Chicago's famed Loop "L". Running nor... (more)

A SB Brown line train comes off the branch track onto track one of the north side four track main at Clark Tower, one of the most complicated junctions on Chicago's "L". On weekends NB trains use ... (more)

Two CTA "L" trains pass each other on the new sweeping high speed realignment just south of the Loop "L" that replaced two back to back 10 MPH Harrison Street reverse curves. If there is no train... (more)

Since the 1960s the CTA has used fiberglass end caps but today all end caps are unpainted for standardization. This northbound Orange line train standing at Roosevelt RD illustrates the typical e... (more)

A Blue line train crests as it crosses over an abandoned railroad and begins the descent into the next station stop while the downtown buildings over 3 miles away form a hazy, heat distorted backg... (more)

Disconnected, these two locomotives wait for switchers to pull their consists out of the station platform tracks, freeing up their respective moves to the engine facilities. The locomotive on the... (more)

The number 5 Paris Metro departs the Gare d Austerlitz Metro station. The train actually travels through the upper reaches of the train shed. I used the number 5 to go between Austerlitz and Gare... (more)

A Red Line train slows to a stop at Sheridan Road, a station sandwiched in between two 90 degree turns that date back to pre 1900 when this elevated was constructed. The right of way was shifting ... (more)

At the northwest corner of Chicago's downtown, the Chicago River makes a "Y" splitting into two branches. Here an outbound Green Line train prepares to rumble across the Lake Street bridge that c... (more)

A westbound Pink line train streaks across the Eisenhower expressway which has the Blue line in its median. The tracks to the left of this expressway crossing was once the Logan Square branch of ... (more)

Action in Altgeld interlocking shows a rerouted Brown line with Roosevelt signs going ahead of a standing Red line train with 95th St. signs. All four tracks are signaled for reverse moves with tr... (more)

The logos are back...only two of 12 prototype Bombardier AC5000 have them but evidently an effort is being made to keep them on the point. This SB Red line test train passes another in the opposi... (more)