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  1. C&NW cars on CalTrain

    C&NW cars on CalTrain

    A set of ex-Chicago & Northwestern gallery cars pull up to the San Antonio stop in Mountain View, California in June of 2001. These old C&NW gallery cars pinch hit for CalTrain's own coaches. CalTrain's gallery cars were being rebuilt by Alstom during that year.
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    • & california caltrain cars chicago francisco gallery mountian northwestern peninsula san view
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  2. Metra 611

    Metra 611

    Metra F40C 611 pushes its inbound under the old CNW bridge as another Netra train passes overhead.
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    • 611 chicago f40c metra
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  3. Metra 614

    Metra 614

    614 heads back into Union Station past Canal Street.
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    • 614 chicago f40c metra
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  4. F40Cs are back!

    F40Cs are back!

    Metra F40C 614 approaches Union Station with its train. Metra has brought both of their remaining F40Cs back into service.
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  5. Conrail via Kansas

    Conrail via Kansas

    CSX 7309 is ex Conrail comes across Kansas on an empty grain train trailing is UP 9740 which has it's roots to a fallen flag the CNW.
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  6. CSX 8115 South

    CSX 8115 South

    CSX 8115 leads a coal train south onto the BNSF Chicago Sub.
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    • 8115 a bnsf chicago coal csx leads onto south sub. the train
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  7. CN 199

    CN 199

    The CN 199 has been very elusive, and this is the first good photo I have managed to take of it. The train now seems to have 3 units, and nothing but single stack Intermodals. I enjoyed seeing this power consist, as it took me back to the golden ages of 2001, when all CN Intermodals sported this...
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    • 199 c44-9w chicago cn sd75i
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    • Category: Canada
  8. Gas Train

    Gas Train

    The 450 hauls all the Gasoline, Deisel, and other such petrolium from the north down to Chicago for exploitation.
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    • 450 chemical chicago cn deisel fuel gas gasoline petrolium riverview scotford tanker train
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    • Category: Canada
  9. UP #4843 East near Arlington, Ore.

    UP #4843 East near Arlington, Ore.

    UP #4843 leads the Z-PDCS (Expedited Trailers - Portland, Ore. to Canal St. [Chicago, IL]) just west of Arlington, Ore. Power was the UP #4843 and 3 other SD70M's for power.. After leaving CP Biggs Jct., 4843 was running about 70-ish mph. At Arlington, we were finally ahead of this train.
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    • #4843 arlington chicago east il oregon up west z-pdcs
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    • Category: Western United States
  10. I.C.E. 6423

    I.C.E. 6423

    A pleasant surprise from the east, heading west through the gorge. This one came out very high in the mids and almost too saturated. Odd. Fought it in editing. Desaturated and lightened. Thoughts? Lighten it more? Add contrast back in? (lowered it)
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    • 6423 chicago eastern iowa
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    • Category: Western United States
  11. Everywhere West!

    Everywhere West!

    Taken from the observation level of the Sear's Tower in Chicago, one can see quite a bit of past and present railroad operations on both sides of the South Branch of the Chicago River. That's Roosevelt Road running left to right across the middle of the image. Taken in 1997.
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    • Category: Scenic Views
  12. ICG GP-10 #8011, Chicago, Illinois, June 1978, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    ICG GP-10 #8011, Chicago, Illinois, June 1978, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    Illinois Central Gulf GP-10 #8011, near 22nd St., Chicago, Illinois, June 1978, photo by Chuck Zeiler. There's a mystery piece of track work, it once connected to Dearborn Street Station in Chicago. Per comment below by beal99, and I have no reason doubt the facts as presented: "The...
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    • 8011 chicago gp-10 gp10 icg
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    • Category: Track
  13. B&O E-9 #1455, Chicago, IL, Feb. 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    B&O E-9 #1455, Chicago, IL, Feb. 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    Baltimore & Ohio E-9 #1455 and Chesapeake & Ohio E-8 #4012 at Grand Central Station, Chicago, Illinois, February 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler Unfortunately, by the time I began photographing trains, Grand Central Station was in its final days. Most of the trains terminating there...
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    • Category: Buildings and Structures
  14. DSC_4757

    DSC_4757

    NS EB @ Arnold Street diamond in South Bend, IN
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    • chicago line ns
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  15. DSC_4754

    DSC_4754

    NS EB at Arnold Street diamond in South Bend, IN on 9/29/07.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  16. DSC_4747

    DSC_4747

    NS EB at the ARnold STreet diamond in South Bend, IN on 9/29/07.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  17. CTA #2130, Chicago, IL, Oct. 25, 1964, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    CTA #2130, Chicago, IL, Oct. 25, 1964, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    CTA #2130, 54th St., Cicero ( Chicago ), IL, October 25, 1964, photo by Chuck Zeiler I am deriving most of the information that follows from Central Electric Railfans Association (CERA) Bulletin 115 (B115), and therein appears a photo very similiar to this one. It is published in black &amp...
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    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  18. MILW E-7 #19B, Chicago, IL, Feb. 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    MILW E-7 #19B, Chicago, IL, Feb. 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler

    Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific E-7 #19B, Chicago, Illinois, February 27, 1966, photo by Chuck Zeiler This E-7 was delivered to The Milwaukee Road on EMD Order E664 June 1946 (c/n 3242). A total of 10 E-7's were on that order (16A,B through 20A,B). Apparently, The Milwaukee...
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    • Category: Vintage Passenger Train Photos - Diesel Era
  19. Amtrak Action in the Windy City

    Amtrak Action in the Windy City

    With downtown Chicago as a backdrop, Amtrak's Tr.#5, the California Zephyr, heads west before the start of the afternoon commuter rush behind a trio of GE P42DC's while heading under Roosevelt Road in 1997.
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    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  20. Afternoon Dinky Parade - Chicago Union Station

    Afternoon Dinky Parade - Chicago Union Station

    The afternoon westbound rush of BN E9s for Metra commuters taken from the former Taylor Road overpass in 1988. Everywhere West!
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    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter


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