All Aboard
Waiting on the platform for his ride west, this gentleman was the only sleeping car patron to board here, with the rest of the substantial waiting crowd heading for the coaches at the rear of the train. The conductor of tonight’s Southwest Chief is watching from the vestibule as the Amtrak train slows for its [...]
Icy Conductor
In the winter spirit still, I figured I’d update the “People Make The Trains Run On Time” gallery here on the blog. This is from the winter of 2008, as a snowstorm moved through Chicagoland, dumping tons of the white stuff on the landscape surrounding Elburn, IL, and its ‘out in the country’ Metra station. [...]
Manhattan Bound
Slipping out of Union Station, one of the last runs for the night on the Metra Southwest Service is bound for Manhattan (the one in Illinois). Heading under a multitude of overhead signals guiding its path out of town, the train picks up speed and the conductor begins to collect tickets, his unmistakable figure (complete [...]
It’s A Lonely Job
One night, while waiting for something to happen in suburban Chicago, I ventured up to the Mannheim Road bridge over the east end of Canadian Pacific’s giant Bensenville freight yard. As it turns out, there were two trains working this end of the yard, the first of which was an IC&E freight train just beginning [...]
Icy Conductor
I put this up on Flickr yesterday, but I thought it might deserve to be a bit bigger over here on the blog. The look on this conductor’s face just about sums up this extreme cold spell we’re in the middle of. This is from last Saturday, on the platform at LaFox, IL, as a [...]
