This Pink line train heads south on the Loop "L" over Wabash Ave. The famous Chicago elevated railroad was opened in 1897 and featured steam locomotives along with electrically trains. By 1980, pl... (more)

Howard Yard is the biggest one.

A Green line train is southbound between 35th St. station and Indiana Ave. station. This is almost the end of the city's first elevated, the 4 1/2 mile Alley 'L' which opened in 1892 powered by st... (more)

Opened in 1897, the Loop 'L' services five routes with three classes of equipment. A Brown line train of 3200 series cars slowly rounds the curve at Lake and Wabash.

This southbound Red line train is stopped at the home board at Clark Jct. with red over red and the track trip up.

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)

If this was a railroad, the charter is "in the hole" but on the Blue Line of the CTA "L", the charter is in Morgan Middle track to allow this NB train to pass. The charter will then pick up phot... (more)

The first line equipped with full width cabs, the newest line, the Orange line still operates on part of the original "L" in Chicago. This SB should have an orange sign up front saying "Midway" a... (more)

A trolley shoe arc denotes the break in contact with the 600 volt third rail as a special charter for the Illinois Railway Museum composed of 40 year old cars originally manufactured by the Budd C... (more)

The photo stop is the mainstay of any charter run and the 2011 IRM Snowflake Special had over a dozen such stops scheduled, but with no follower in sight, you take advantage of good sunlight and t... (more)

The median "L" was opened in 1969. The elevated opened in 1907 as the Englewood extension. But the houses and the church predate them all, going back to the 1870s. A NB Green line train has sl... (more)

It's a summer holiday weekend, in fact the busiest weekend of all, the day before the Fourth and Taste of Chicago is downtown; thus eight cars on this Brown Line train pulling out of the terminal ... (more)

In opposite directions, two CTA trains meet running on two separate lines: the SB Red line train of Budd 2600s in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway and the prototype set of Bombardier AC5000s ... (more)

When built in 1892, the southside "L" from Congress St south to 39th ST was already known as the "alley L". This NB Green line train is on the third track that was added in 1907. Around 1950, the... (more)

It's the busiest summer holiday weekeknd, the 4th of July and Taste of Chicago is downtown in Grant Park, thus this SB Blue Line train has eight cars as it roars at its maximum speed of 55 MPH dow... (more)