#trainspotting
“Amtrak’s ‘Day One’ 50th Anniversary heritage unit, ALC-42 number 301, swings through the tight North Canal Street curve, just a couple minutes from its final arrival at Chicago Union Station with train 8, the eastbound Empire Builder. To the right, the old Cassidy Tire building, long a local landmark, is being demolished, presumably to make way for more condos- this is a hot area in real estate.”
May 25, 2022
Photo by Jonathan Lee
“New York Central loco 5287, a 4-6-4, heads south at Roosevelt Road on August 24, 1954.”
Chicago
Photo by David R. Sweetland
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BN 9910, 14th Street coach yard
Chicago
September 30, 1981
“The locomotive servicing facility at Chicago was known as the Zephyr Pit. A hold over from when the CB&Q’s fleet of passenger trains was based here.”
Metra E-unit with Amtrak detour Chicago IL 1993
“It’s July 1993 the great floods of the Mississippi River caused many detours on other railroads. The San Francisco Zephyr detoured over the C&NW Iowa division making Amtrak to lease Metra E-units to lead for cab signals. In the shot it’s leaving Chicago at Racine Ave.”
Photo by Mark Llanuza
GM&I - ICG Junction
Argo, Illinois
1980
Photo by D.W. Davidson
Rock Island E-units
New Lenox, Illinois
November 1978
Photo by Mark Llanuza
FromClassic Trains:
On Chicago’s L:
A four-car Chicago Aurora & Elgin train heads away from the Loop as a Chicago Rapid Transit train heads inbound. Below the train are the south platforms of Chicago Union Station.
Photo by Don Sims
The best fxxckin’ friends forever !❤️
Some pics of Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson.
He is my favorite charactor for now and forever.
(I like the story that he was an apprentice of a hairdresser)
Their Way of Being Friends
Naughty cat boys and much more dangerous one.
“Personality, I mean that’s what counts, right? Personality, I mean that’s what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like her*in. I mean, her*in’s got great f***ing personality.”
ーby Sick Boy
Dr*gs make me do this to you, you know?
“guess who was winding you up then, encouraging you to be the bad bastard, cruelty gleaming in his eyes? Aye, Renton’s grin was as wide as Victoria Dock, the cunt.”
ーScene from “P＊RN＊"ー
