Looking down the North Shore channel at a Skokie-equipped “Single” crossing the bridge.7/29/85.
Photo by John Smatlak
Source: flickr.com
West Chicago Layover by GLC 392 Via Flickr: “Under the watchful eye of some UP folks a couple of us were allowed to take some night shots well after hours or is it before hours? of the big boy resting inside the Larry S. Provo training Center. Soon the steam crew will be showing up to bring the engine up to pressure for the run west across the former CNW mainline.”
Source: flickr.com
End Of The Rainbow by sdl39hogger on Flickr.
"It's a fine May afternoon at The Milwaukee Road's Bensenville wash rack, as Lonnie photographed his power catching a good bath. I sure am glad he had his camera ready for this frame!"
MILW 73A
Bensenville Wash Rack
Bensenville, IL
May 1972
Photo by Lonnie Maves
D.A.Longley collection
ICG/AMTK, South Elgin, Illinois, 1981 by railphotoart on Flickr.
Eastbound Amtrak passenger train on Illinois Central Gulf Railroad bridge over the Fox River in South Elgin, Illinois, on September 1981. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund, © 2016, Center for Railroad Photography and Art.
Chicago Aurora & Elgin 424 near the end of the line, along the Fox River in Elgin
From The Trolley Dodger
September 1, 1900. "Chicago River elevators at Chicago, Illinois." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Note the rail cars on the left bank of the river, under the Schlitz sign
from shorpy.com
Chicago, Aurora & Elgin passenger train reflected in the Fox River at the Elgin terminal in the 1950s
CTA Lake Street L train crossing the Chicago River with the Merchandise Mart in the background
Chicago
CTA - Skokie, IL by d.w.davidson on Flickr.
Caption: “A CTA Skokie Swift train sails high over the North Shore Channel, in March 1995. The C&NW Weber Line bridge can be seen behind." Skokie, Illinois March 1995 Photo by D.W. Davidson