Chicago RTA EMD E-8 reving up inside the NorthWestern Station train shed. Chicago Illinois USA. January 1984.

I took this photo inside of the trainshed and terminal tracks of the former NorthWestern Station in downtown Chicago Illinois, on a January 1984 railfan photo visit. The elderly early 1950's era EMD E-8 streamlined passenger service diesel locomotives were already in their last decade of commuter passenger service in Chicago, and would be retired in October of 1989. The old NorthWestern Station concourse building would be demolished during the upcoming summer of 1984. The building was replaced with a blue glass skyscraper building originally called the Northwestern Atrium Center. This building would later be renamed the Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center after the 1998 merger and acquisition of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad by the Union Pacific. Since this photo, the old and very dark steam era trainshed has been replaced by a modern steel one.