"Built to save the business", the EMD Aerotrain came to be in 1955. Inspired by the style of the day and the buses of the GM division, the train even was complete with Chevy Nomad tail fins on th... (more)
Colorful motive power consist!
At the south end of the station
A real oddball, Rock Island EMD AB6 is accelerating out of Chicago's La Salle Street Station with a bi-level commuter train.
Rock Island GE U33B 298 leads a mixed bag of power on an eastbound freight during a New Years Eve 1978 blizzard.
Rock Island 268 leads a U28B/GP40/GP7/GP38-2 lashup near the Silvis Shop less than a month before shutdown.
Less than one month before the end, Rock Island SW1500 947 shoves two classic fifty-footers over the Silvis hump.
The "David P. Morgan" leads two rebuilt GP7's on the Blue Island service tracks in October 1976.
A nice E8. E7B, E7A set heads up the westbound GOLDEN STATE about to stop at Joliet. Someone was busy with the red paint in Chicago.
A real hot box. I had never seen one before and I don't recall whether the coach was used again back to Chicago that day.
A Rock Island EMD F2 is paired with leased Great Northern FT units 258 A&B on a westbound freight for a pleasing color combination.
Rock Island RS-3 486 departs Joliet with three cars for Chicago on a flawless, sunny June day.
An eight car Rock Island commuter train is about to stop at Englewood station.
An E8, E7B and FP7A are teamed up on the Rock Island / Southern Pacific GOLDEN STATE departing LaSalle St. station.
