February 25, 2018 – Amtrak 391, The Saluki, slowly makes it’s way around the old Illinois Central coaling towers, as it heads south in the rain for it’s final stop of the day at Carbondale, Illinois with 4613 leading.
December 9, 2017 – Amtrak train 391, the Saluki, sits at the station in Carbondale, Illinois after returning from Chicago with a load of passengers with Amtrak 52 leading. This train is usually single level equipment but due to the Polar Express train in Chicago running during the holidays this train was robbed of its single level cars.
December 8, 2017 – A blue line train towards O’Hare International Airport pulls into the Damen Station in the late evening light, in Chicago, Illinois.
December 29, 2017 – Union Pacific 8403 leads a mixed freight southbound on the Mt. Vernon Subdivision, with Kansas City Southern 4058 trailing, as they cross over the Norfolk Southern line at Mount Vernon, Illinois.
December 26, 2017 – Norfolk Southern Interstate Heritage Unit, 8104, brings up the rear of empty Norfolk Southern coal train D435-24, outside the Squaw Creek Mine at Booneville, Indiana.
December 8, 2017 – A Chicago Transit Authority train stops in a station on the elevated tracks know as the “L” in Chicago, Illinois among the tall canyons between the downtown buildings as the last light fades from the sky.
December 7, 2017 – It’s a cold and windy winter’s night as a CTA train pulls into the State/Lake Street “L” station in Downtown Chicago, Illinois as bundled up workers begin their commute home from the downtown area.
December 8, 2017 – A Chicago Transit Authority train stops in a station on the elevated tracks know as the “L” in downtown Chicago, Illinois as the light fades from the sky and the city begins to light up for the night.
December 8, 2017 – It’s not always about the train!!! Here a slow shutterspeed provides an interesting view from the last car of a CTA Blue Line Train as it leaves the station in Chicago, IL.
December 8, 2017 – The motorman and his elves on Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) “Holiday Train,” Santa’s Express, keep a watchful eye as passengers come and go from the train at the Cumberland CTA Station on the Blue Line in Chicago, Illinois, before their last stop of the day at O’Hare International Airport.
December 8, 2017 – A blue line train heads down the track approaching the Damen Interlocking in the late evening light, toward the Damen Avenue Station in Chicago, Illinois, on it’s way toward Forest Park.
December 8, 2017 – Heading into the S curve at the Damen Interlocking, a Blue Line train actually bound for Forest Park, but the operator forgot to change the sign, pulls into the Damen Avenue Station in Chicago, Illinois in the cold late afternoon.
December 7, 2017 – As the cold December wind whips through the downtown canyon of buildings, two opposing Chicago Transit Authority trains meet at the Clark/Lake Station on the downtown loop elevated track (L), as they pickup and drop off their passengers before heading off to their next station stops. The oldest sections of the Chicago “L” started operations in 1892, making it the second-oldest rapid transit system in the Americas, after New York City’s elevated lines. The Chicago “L” (short for “elevated”) is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). It is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at 224.1 miles long and the second-busiest rail mass transit system in the United States, after the New York City Subway.
December 6, 2017 – Amtrak train 360, the Saluki, pulls into the station at Carbondale, Illinois with a relatively new Siemens Charger SC-44 locomotive 4618 as power for the trip to Chicago.The SC-44 came off the assembly line on November 16, 2017.
