An Orange Line passenger train to Midway rolls through the elevated s-curved track just south of the loop. One of many unique billboards in Chicago over looks the parking lot from the side of a turquoise building of a moose blowing a pink bubble gum bubble.
Imagine the number of people that have walked through this train station. Built in 1925, it is the third busies rail station in the United States. The station serves around 120,000 passengers every weekday. Passengers form a line for the next Amtrak train to arrive including a small group of Mennonites. The light flooding in from the skylights is possible due to a restoration in 1991. Prior to that, they were still blacked out from WWII in an effort to conceal the building at night.
An inbound Metra train for LaSalle Street Station crosses the diamond protected by the 16th St. Tower outside downtown Chicago. The tower stands over the crossing of Metra's Rock Island District over the St. Charles Air Line and former Illinois Central line west now Canadian National. The first tower was built here in 1901.
