Dee Matyas
@traingeek • she/her & they/them •
I’m a railroad nerd from Massachusetts, USA, who loves infrastructure and industry. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿️
East Chicago, Indiana
The then ArcelorMittal steel mill blast furnaces in Cleveland, OH.
Nighttime at the CSX Newcastle, PA yard over the summer of 2019.
Albany-Rensselaer Station
The Chicago L traverses a canyon between towers
Kalon and his decked out Nissan Laurel that he imported from Japan
I want to try this shot again with more time and my real camera and tripod
The Chicago L
I need to try this shot again with late afternoon light coming in under the bridge
Experimenting with something a little different
A classic locomotive in a nice paint scheme (Metra F40PH-3 in the OTC in Chicago)
This is just outside the OTC in Chicago, where there was an endless parade of trains (including more out of sight below those bridges). Thanks very much to the kind front desk person at this building who let me into the garage to railfan.
Chicago Union Station
Inside the bowels of Chicago Union Station
The Chicago L somewhere downtown
Maintenance of way track workers and a hi-rail truck in the throat of the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago
Here’s a view from October 5, 2019, of the CSX Worcester Massachusetts intermodal yard and the MBTA coach yard to the far right. I love taking fully backlit shots with the sun in them, like this.
My Honda Fit “Tippy”, in front of a few of the Eastworks converted old mill buildings. I’m having a blast deep diving into car enthusiasm - it’s nice being a newbie to a hobby for a change.
Looking through a gap in some intermodal cars from the Amtrak Lake Shore Limited train
My Honda Fit after an ice storm came through
I’m branching out into more car photography and having a blast with that learning curve!
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago in the distance, with an L train in the foreground lighting up the middle of the shot with an electric arc from the third rail
This diamond and tower is a really busy spot on the Chicago L
A handheld night shot from Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center station
A fluted stainless steel Metra bi-level coach in Chicago
One of the many signals at Control Point Roosevelt in Chicago just south of Union Station
A BNSF freight passes through Western Springs, IL
A tangle of Multiple Unit and Head End Power hoses and the locking couplers between a pair of Amtrak P42 locomotives
Inside the disabled Viewliner sleeper compartment aboard the Amtrak Lake Shore Limited somewhere between Chicago and Springfield, Massachusetts
US Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works
The Metra conductor had to fight with the wheelchair lift to get it unstuck after unloading me
This is Chicago Illinois, just south of Union Station, in the coach yards. I love the patterns of those double slip switches.
The view out the door of my disabled sleeper compartment on an Amtrak Viewliner in the Lake Shore Limited train with part of the nose of the trailing P42 locomotive visible through the vestibule door window. (That’s definitely a run-on sentence - it’s fine…)
Passing trains on the Chicago L and the skyline in the background
Boston MBTA Red Line yard
The signal bridge at the Western Springs station west of Chicago
Somewhere along the route of the Amtrak Lake Shore Limited en route to Chicago
Selfie from my sleeper compartment on the Lake Shore Limited during a trip to Chicago a while back. Should I make this my profile pic? I wish it didn’t hide my pink hair, but this photo definitely works better in black and white.
Another Western Springs shot
I was able to fit in some fun railfanning in good light on my trip to the CRP&A Conversations Conference last spring in Chicago. I love visiting that region. The sheer number and density of trains is amazing! This day I visited the Western Springs station on the BNSF/Metra “Racetrack” line — a favorite spot of mine.
US Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works
A trio of Union Railroad MP15s pull a steel slab train of gondolas away from US Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works.
The pilot and snow plow of a Providence & Worcester RR Dash-8 Locomotive
O’Hare International Airport outside Chicago
I'm slowly catching up on my photo editting backlog, hooray. I just posted a photo set from Western Springs along the BNSF "Racetrack" west of Chicago on my Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/traing33k/albums/72177720331276718/
I'm particularly fond of this shot from that day.
South Deerfield Mass grade crossing
The southbound Amtrak Vermonter kicks up snow as it flies through Springfield, Mass
The Amtrak Vermonter blasts through the plowed snow bank at the South Deerfield Mass grade crossing
Here’s the first of a few reposts of my older snow photography for this month’s category.
