With the decline of rail passenger service many of these facilities disappeared. Today only Union Station remains in use in a substantially original form, and is the only one served by Amtrak intercity trains.
The Chicago and North Western Passenger Terminal has been replaced with a newer station and renamed Ogilvie Transportation Center, and LaSalle Street Station has also been replaced with a newer facility.
Millennium Station is on the site of the pre-1893 Illinois Central Railroad Central Depot, used since then only for commuter trains. All four stations are used by Metra commuter service.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) EMD F3 - Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois, June 06, 1962 - The GRAND CANYON arrives at Dearborn Station behind EMD F3 units late in the afternoon.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) EMD F3 - Dearborn Station, Chicago, Illinois, June 06, 1962 - EMD F units are ready to lead the GRAND CANYON west from Chicago.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD E8 - Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois, June 06, 1962 - Two Burlington E8 units power the Northern Pacific's NORTH COAST LIMITED from Union Station. There is a Budd Slumbercoach several cars back. This was the summer of the Seattle World's Fair.
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio EMD E7 - Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois, June 06, 1962 - GM&O E7 units 102A and 102 are backing into Union Station with train 3, the ABRAHAM LINCOLN, for its 5:50 p.m. CDT departure. The Missouri Pacific sleeper was a through car to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (Rock Island) EMD E8 - Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois, June 06, 1962 - An E8, E7B and FP7A are teamed up on the Rock Island / Southern Pacific GOLDEN STATE departing LaSalle St. station.LINK: To see many more great vintage railroad photos, visit Bob Krone on RailPictures.Net - Thank you Bob!
