Recent Digital Photos
by Mike Condren
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54 Years of Railroad Photography |
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Mike's Main Railroad Web Site
March 18, 2015
| These units were in a yard along side of I-90 just north of downtown by which I had ridden many times on the Thru-Way bus to Madison, WI during my days as an assoicate of a research group there. |
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| View of downtown Chicago from the platform at the Irving Park station along I-90. |
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| This CTA is stopped at the Irving Park station in the middle of the Kennedy Expressway. At times the expressway was a parking lot with the inbound lanes stopped. |
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| This outbound CTA train had a car decorated as an ad for Visit.Florida.com. |
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| The inbound Metra for which I have been waiting is now in view beyond the girders for the overpass over Irving Park. |
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| Ogilvie Transportation Center, one time location of the Chicago & North Western station. |
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| A Metra is seen leaving the north end of Union Station and crossing Canal Street. |
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| Another Metra train is seen crossing Canal Street on its way into the north end of Union Station. |
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| Here is yet another outbound Metra train leaving the north end of Union Station. |
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| This inbound Metra is heading toward the former North Western station. |
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| CP Morgan is displaying: l to r: stop, clear, clear. |
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| A light engine is inbound at CP Morgan. |
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| This inbound Metra train is seen at CP Morgan. |
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| CP Morgan is displaying: l to r: stop, approach, clear. |
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| This Metra inbound is seen at CP Morgan. |
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| An outbound Metra is seen through the CP Morgan signal bridge. |
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| This Metra train is taking the elevated ROW toward the former North Western station. |
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| Another inbound Metra is passing CP Morgan. |
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| Yet another outbound Metra at CP Morgan. |
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| Four units are seen heading to the elevated tracks to the former North Western Station. |
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| The last Metra I caught at CP Morgan was this inbound. |
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| I then picked up Jan at 4th Presbyterian Church, and we headed to the Art Institute where I got this image of the 1887 "Self Portrait" of Vincent van Gogh. |  |
| We had parked in the garage of the Palmer House. I caught this CTA train on the Wabash side of the loop when we returned to get our car. |
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