At 00:39 on 01/17/69, southbound Illinois Central passenger train #25 led by a trio of E-units collided with a northbound freight that went past a red signal at Indian Oaks. Three people, includi... (more)

A North Western rush hour train is crossing the MILW diamonds at Mayfair Tower in Chicago.

Rock Island E7(A) 642 and DL-105 622 lead a passenger train in Chicago in the early 1960s R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

The more things change, sometimes the more they stay the same. The scene here is the Burlington Northern Empire Builder waiting impatiently to get on its overnight run from Minneapolis to Fargo an... (more)

An aging E7A, number unknown, idles next to a bi-level 400 at Green Bay. Painted in its final scheme it is aimed southward for Milwaukee. I have no idea what train this might have been assigned to... (more)

The beautiful Pennsylvania 5901 and 5741 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

Penn Central Empire Service train 72, bound from Buffalo to New York, arrives at the Albany-Rensselaer station behind a patched ex-NYC E7 and a repainted E8.

The beautiful Pennsylvania 5901 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

The nose of Pennsylvania 5901 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

Having arrived from the west on a mail and express train, a quartet of Penn Central E-units (two E7s and two E8s) make their way from Boston's South Station to the Dover Street yard for servicing.... (more)

A northbound passenger train on CNW's Airline hammers the crossing at Wiscona on Milwaukee's north side in April of 1966. Photographer Bob Ferge has climbed the signal to record the event while n... (more)

The National Limited accelerates after its Jeff City station stop behind former ACL #532.

On the eve of Amtrak, the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio operated three passenger trains each way between Chicago and St. Louis. GM&O #3, the southbound Abraham Lincoln with a 5:10 PM departure from Chicago,... (more)

GM&O 103A is stopped at the Sturtevant, WI depot with an Amtrak train in March of 1973. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

Louisville & Nashville trains 3 and 4, the Chicago-Danville Flyer, were inherited from the Chicago & Eastern Illinois when the L&N and MP split up the C&EI, and on this day the locomotive was ex-C... (more)