Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad owned Dearborn Station in downtown Chicago and provided access and terminal facilities for Erie; Wabash; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Monon; Atchison, Topeka & Sa... (more)

In 1886, the Wisconsin Central Railroad had formed a new railway company, called the Chicago and Great Western Railroad (C&GW) to build a new line from a connection with the WC at Forest Park into... (more)

On my birthday in 1985, I was photographing trains on the elevated Illinois Central Railroad right-of-way near Riverdale Interlocking in Riverdale, IL, when I noticed a long westbound transfer fre... (more)

I liked photographing in places where I didn't belong! Evidence of that fact is illustrated here. I was hiking along the eastern plant gate at Republic Steel Corporation's Chicago Works, when I sp... (more)

United States Steel Had a dominant presence in the city of Chicago, with four huge steel mills: Waukegan, IL; Joliet, IL; Gary, IN; and South Works in southeastern Chicago. Built at Lake Michigan ... (more)

BRC C424 604 and 602 shove a transfer train around the northwest leg of the wye from BRC to Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad rails at 75th Street (Forest Hill) Interlocking Tower. Once t... (more)

Conrail GP15-1 1676 rests between runs at Interlake Steel Corporation's South Chicago Ironmaking Works. Located along the Calumet River's eastern bank, Interlake produced coke and iron at South Ch... (more)

While I was looking at slides the other day, I noticed this one. While I worked at Amtrak during the 1980's, I often took my cameras with me. Every chance I got, I photographed the trains and scen... (more)

I have always been fascinated by steelmaking and steel mills. During my time living in my native Chicago, I was very fortunate to view and photograph in and around many of the mills located there.... (more)

This is one of my favorite Pennsy photos. PRR EMD E8a 5768 and an EMD E7A pause at Englewood Union Station in southeast Chicago, making a station stop. Englewood was a major junction between the P... (more)

Another site I visited frequently was Pine Junction, a very busy location in Gary, IN. It was a junction between two different Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad subdivisions, the New York... (more)

Besides being a railroad town, Riverdale, IL also is a steelmaking center. Located along the Little Calumet River's east bank was Acme Steel, later Interlake Steel and, eventually again, Acme Stee... (more)