Skip to content

Seen from above, a silver Amtrak switcher with red, white and blue stripes is coupled to three stainless steel passenger cars beside a brick shop building, a row of wheelsets and a parked blue car. — Download original ↓

September 8, 1990 · 18th St., Chicago, IL

An Amtrak switcher moves a string of stainless steel passenger cars through the 18th Street coach yard in Chicago.

Date: September 8, 1990
Location: 18th St., Chicago, IL
Vehicle: Diesel locomotive, Passenger car
Operator: Amtrak
Equipment: EMD SW1

Tags

1990s Autumn Chicago

Where this was taken

Open the full map →

Exact or street-level Approximate (town or area); larger = more photographs

More like this

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

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

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

A silver passenger train with red, white and blue stripes crosses a rusty steel truss bridge with a small operator's house on top, beside a tall steel lift tower above a wide river.

An Amtrak train crosses a steel truss bridge over the Chicago River in Chicago, seen from the water. January 2000 · Lumber and Chicago River, Chicago, IL