Amtrak’s Pere Marquette train 371 heads south out of Chicago Union Station under Roosevelt Road deadheading to the Amtrak coach yard, most likely after being turned on the wye adjoining the Amtr... (more)

A view into Chicago Union Station from the Canal Street entrance shows stairs leading down into the Great Hall waiting room area on November 11, 2019. On the left is a portion of Amtrak’s Metrop... (more)

Metra trains wait out the work day laying over at the BNSF/Metra coach yard along Canal Street (since CB&Q days, nicknamed the Zephyr Pit) at Chicago, Illinois, as seen from Roosevelt Road on a sn... (more)

Amtrak Hiawatha Service train 332 from Milwaukee has just arrived at Chicago Union Station behind Siemens SC-44 No. 4624 on November 11, 2019.

BNSF GP39-2 No. 2759 switches Metra bi-level cars at the BNSF/Metra coach yard along Canal Street on November 11, 2019. It was windy and cold, with Chicago received between three and four inches o... (more)

ATSF 2395 and mate sit on the side lines at Archer Avenue Yard south of downtown Chicago. The two steam generator equipped Alco RS-1s are no longer needed for passenger terminal switching with the... (more)

Six Santa Fe F units are lined up at their Archer Avenue passenger engine facility south of downtown Chicago. The units are under Amtrak operation at this point and are being readied for an outbou... (more)

A lengthy Baltimore & Ohio transfer job behind a GP9/GP30 duo crosses the massive Chicago River drawbridge at Ash Street in Chicago.

A pair of the Monon's distinctive BL2s haul a Clearing Yard-Hammond transfer run through Pullman Junction in South Chicago. The EMD BL2, a late-1940s transitional model between cab units and road ... (more)

This is the answer to the seldom-asked question, "If an Alco RS2 mated with an EMD GP7, what would the kids look like?". The Rock Island re-engined five RS2s and an RS3 with EMD prime mo... (more)

Amtrak Lincoln Service train 303 departs Chicago, Illinois, on a snowy November 11, 2019. The train is passing the a group of Metra bi-level trains laying over at the BNSF’s 14th Street coach ya... (more)

During a mid-morning lull in traffic, the Great Hall at Chicago Union Station is mostly empty and quiet on November 11, 2019. The recently refurbished Great Hall was built in 1925, the 219-foot lo... (more)

Chicago great western Baldwin S12 40 sits among other retired units at a dealer in Chicago. The interesting thing about this unit is the ALCO Blunt trucks under it. I do not know why that happene... (more)

Santa Fe H-12-44TS no. 542 is at Corwith Yard shortly before retirement. This was one of three units (541-543) that were purchased to handle passenger switching, thus equipped with a high short ho... (more)

Santa Fe 8502, a U33C, was delivered in the dress blue scheme in June 1969. Less than five years later it shows off its blue/yellow warbonnet scheme at Corwith Yard in Chicago. A little research ... (more)