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Highball Highlands by Craig Sanders Via Flickr: An eastbound Metra train passes the Hightlands station in Hinsdale, Ilinois, framed by searchlight-type signals that used to stand here. The signals have since been replaced. (Scannned from a slide)
Now Boarding by Craig Sanders Via Flickr: There aren't any passengers visible but the 11:20 a.m. for Joliet via the Suburban Line of the former Rock Island Railroad is now boarding at Chicago LaSalle Street. At the time this photograph was made the trains were being operated by the Regional Transportation Authority. (Scanned from a slide)
Lined at at LaSalle Street by Craig Sanders Via Flickr: Commuter trains of the former Rock Island Railroad are awaiting their call to duty at Chicago LaSalle Street Station. It is not the peak travel time so there are a lot of trains waiting. (Scanned from a slide)
Bi-levels Row by Craig Sanders Via Flickr: “There are three bi-level gallery cars visible in this scene at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago. Once these tracks hosted trains of the Rock Island, New York Central, and Nickel Plate Road, but on this day there were only commuter trains of the Regional Transportation Authority.”
June 29, 1982
Photo by Craig Sanders
Chicago & North Western Terminal by Craig Sanders Via Flickr: “Chicago & North Western Terminal was still very much a C&NW operation in September 1981 when I passed through. Today these trains are operated by Metra.”
(Scanned from an Ektachrome slide)
Photo by Craig Sanders
From Classic Trains:
Seattle/Portland–Chicago North Coast Limited arriving Chicago Union Station
May 1958
Photo by Robert P. Olmsted
IC, Chicago, Illinois, 1967 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art Via Flickr: “Illinois Central Railroad Panama Limited passenger train approaching Central Station in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday March 30th, 1967.”
Photograph by Thomas F. McIlwraith
© 2018, Center for Railroad Photography & Art, www.railphoto-art.org
Amtrak E-8 at Glenview IL Aug 1973 by Mark LLanuza on Flickr.
Early Amtrak train at the Milwaukee Road station in north suburban Glenview with a mix of passenger cars from various predecessor railroads
Glenview, Illinois
August 1973
Photo by Mark Llanuza
rr282s by George Hamlin on Flickr.
C&NW’s Davis Street station in Evanston, Illinois September 25, 1970 Photo by George Hamlin
Caption: “AT&SF coach yard at 18th St just to the north side of China Town. Nothing had really changed much except the Amtrak pointless arrows on the cars as it was still almost all ex-Santa Fe trains that were yarded here.”
Chicago
1973
Photo by Tom Farence
Caption: “Santa Fe 543 zooming off to work in the yards south of Chicago Union Station in 1970. This locomotive survives today at the Illinois Railway Museum.”
Amtrak trains departing Chicago Union Station as seen from Roosevelt Road
Note the dome cars on the tracks to the right
June 1974
Photos by Mel Bernero
Caption: “Informal portrait of soldiers from the 122nd Field Artillery Regiment leaning out the windows of a passenger train car in a railroad station in Chicago, Illinois, during a trip to Sparta, Wisconsin, 1929.”
From the Chicago Daily News collection. (Photo by Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
Caption: “I found two PAs in Dearborn Station on December 26, 1967 -- ‘Hi Ladies’. The shot is from the second floor waiting room though the glass wall for looking into the train shed. PA1s were seldom seen in Chicago so they were a surprise. The train is Train 24, the Grand Canyon, and the Big Dome is a deadhead from the Topeka shops.That's F3A 34C in the distance. I guess they stopped her way back there so I could get these unobstructed pictures. AT&SF 74L was built in August 1947 as 58B and renumbered 74L in May 1949. She was wrecked in Planada, CA on June 23, 1953 and rebuilt. She was traded to EMD in 1969 toward the SD45 series.”
Chicago
December 26, 1967
South Shore Line #16 at the Randolph Street Terminal, with 70s fashion on display on the passenger platform
Chicago
April 23, 1978
Photo by Mel Bernero
Roger Playing With Light -- 4 Photos by railfan 44 on Flickr.
Burlington Northern commuter train
April 1985
Photo by Roger Puta
Amtrak Transition Dormitory 9990 by Chuck Zeiler on Flickr.
Amtrak baggage dormitory transition car 9990 ( on the right ) at Michigan City, Indiana on July 12, 1982. Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
