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A silver Amtrak cab unit with red, white and blue stripes and a side roll-up door runs along tracks beside an empty street intersection with a traffic signal, utility poles and low brick industrial buildings.

Amtrak 90224 at the head of a train near Howard Street at Lehigh Avenue in Niles, Illinois. August 2000 · Lehigh and Howard, Niles, IL

Side view of a green and yellow CNW diesel locomotive numbered 4324 parked on tracks in a yard with other locomotives nearby under an overcast sky.

A Chicago and North Western GP9 diesel locomotive, number 4324, in green and yellow livery, is parked in a yard, with another CNW locomotive and an Amtrak unit visible in the background. November 2000 · Lake and Mannheim, Melrose Park, IL

Two silver and blue Amtrak diesel locomotives seen through the rusted lattice truss of a river bridge with a tall lift tower, with moored boats and the still water in the foreground.

Amtrak locomotives 139 and [...]19 cross a steel truss bridge with a lift tower over a river. c. 2001 to 2010

An Amtrak train with locomotive number 386 on an elevated platform, passing by brick buildings and street traffic below on a winter day.

An Amtrak train led by locomotive 386 on an elevated structure in Oklahoma City, with the Rock Island Implement Company building in the background. February 2001 · Oklahoma City, OK

A silver Amtrak train with locomotive 386 and a two-level stainless steel coach under a long canopy on top of a concrete retaining wall, with old brick warehouses behind and traffic signals and parked pickups in the street below.

Amtrak locomotive 386 and a bilevel coach stand under the platform canopy of the raised station in Oklahoma City. February 2001 · Oklahoma City, OK

A silver Amtrak diesel locomotive numbered 409 and a passenger car stand at a long canopied platform on a concrete wall, with brick warehouses, a lit water tower and a cloudy sky behind.

Amtrak 409 with a passenger car at a raised station platform, likely in Oklahoma City, at dusk. February 2001 · Oklahoma City, OK

A side view of an Amtrak Superliner passenger car, number 3740, in a rail yard under an overcast sky.

An Amtrak Superliner passenger car, number 3740, in Phase I livery, is shown in a rail yard. May 2001 · Front and Lincoln, Franklin Park, IL

Two silver and blue Amtrak locomotives seen through the diagonal members of a rusty steel truss bridge with a small operator's house on top, a lift tower at right and calm water reflecting the bridge below.

Two Amtrak diesel locomotives cross a rusted through-truss railroad bridge over the river in Chicago, likely the Lumber Street bridge. June 2001 · Lumber St Bridge, Chicago, IL

A silver locomotive with a blue stripe and the number 27, followed by a passenger car lettered Coach, crosses a rusty steel truss bridge above a river with moored boats.

Amtrak locomotive 27 leads a passenger train across the Lumber Street bridge over the Chicago River in Chicago. July 2001 · Lumber St Bridge, Chicago, IL

Four silver Amtrak diesel locomotives with red, white and blue stripes stand in a row in a rail yard beyond a grassy field, with a tall brick power house with two smokestacks and high-rise buildings behind them.

Amtrak locomotives, including 391, lined up in a yard near Canal Street and Roosevelt Road, Chicago, with a large power house and the South Loop skyline behind. September 2001 · Canal and Roosevelt, Chicago, IL

Two silver and blue Amtrak diesel locomotives, numbered 42 and 61, partly hidden behind a rusted steel bridge tower on the far bank of a green river lined with weeds and old brick buildings.

Amtrak locomotives 42 and 61 pass behind the rusted truss tower of a Chicago River bridge near 19th Street in Chicago. September 2001 · 19th and Chicago River, Lumber St Bridge, Chicago, IL

Three silver Amtrak diesel locomotives with red, white and blue stripes in a rail yard beyond a grassy field, with curved concrete apartment towers and downtown buildings under a blue sky.

Amtrak locomotives 364 and 345 and a third unit sit in a yard near Canal and Roosevelt, with the Chicago skyline beyond. September 2001 · Canal and Roosevelt, Chicago, IL

Black-and-white photo taken from above of a striped diesel locomotive numbered 516 on a broad spread of tracks, with bilevel passenger cars in the foreground and office buildings beyond a vacant lot.

Amtrak 516 moves through the tracks south of Chicago Union Station near Canal Street and Roosevelt Road, beside a train with bilevel coaches and an ExpressTrak car. January 2002 · Canal and Roosevelt, Chicago, IL

Black-and-white photo looking down on a railroad yard. An Amtrak cab unit numbered 90219 leads a short train of single-level cars. Long bilevel Superliner cars stand on tracks to the left, with tall light towers, leafless trees, high-rise buildings and a raised bascule bridge behind.

Amtrak 90219 heads a train of single-level cars in the Amtrak coach yard near Canal and Roosevelt in Chicago, with Superliner cars on the next tracks and raised bascule bridges behind. March 2002 · Canal and Roosevelt, Chicago, IL

A rusty steel truss railroad bridge with a tall lift tower over a river, with a white Amtrak switcher numbered 794 and striped cars crossing behind the truss.

Amtrak switcher 794 moves cars across a lowered vertical-lift bridge, which the note identifies as the Lumber Street bridge in Chicago. July 2002 · Lumber St Bridge, Chicago, IL