Howard is the northern most CTA station in Chicago. This southbound has just left Evanston, will run to and around the Loop and return through here to Evanston and Wilmette. The motorman is on t... (more)

Date not recorded but about 1971. Howard is the northern most CTA station in Chicago. The car to the left is the Skokie Swift which had just arrived from Skokie. The other train is a Northbound... (more)

Homebound Evanston and Wilmette Commuters. Date not recorded but about 1971. Certainly winter. The Evanston Express runs south from Wilmette, through Evanston and northern Chicago, around ... (more)

A CTA work train slowly creeps over one of the oldest elevated lines in the city.

Date unrecorded but about 1971. This is a three body articulated car. See: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=260127

A CTA Orange Line train from Midway departs Roosevelt Street station for the Chicago Loop, through a canyon of buildings.

The station has since been closed and the cars retired. I have just learned the boy looking on is railfan Bob Rodenkirk, a WBBM radio broadcaster in Chicago.

This is the south end of Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee high speed Skokie Valley Route.

This car is preserved at the Monticello Illinois Railroad Museum.

Above Wabash Ave. turning to above Lake St.

The two car train (a married pair, i.e., cabs at the outer ends and conductor stations at the center ends) looped the inner Loop all day long. Lake and Wells Interlocking was a four-way intersect... (more)

A green line train (I know because I actually hopped on it) heads south into the Adams & Wabash station. Next it will leave the Loop and head to the south side. The Donald's (Trump's) big tower ... (more)

A Blue Line train to O'Hare passes the ramp leading up to the Douglas Branch.

Built in 1969, a group of 2200 series cars sit outside the Rosemont Shops for the weekend.