Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger trains: All through June 2024, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of “The Chicago Line.”
![Chesapeake and Ohio](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510011-1.jpg)
Chicago–Jacksonville, Fla., Dixie Limited at 21st Street, Chicago, 1947.
Donald Deneen
![Chesapeake and Ohio](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510011-1-100x80.jpg)
![a passenger car next to a streamliner](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510012-1.jpg)
Chicago–Miami Dixie Flagler (beside just-arrived Santa Fe El Capitan) at Dearborn Station, Chicago, early 1940s.
Classic Trains coll.
![a passenger car next to a streamliner](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510012-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510013-1.jpg)
Chicago–New Orleans Dixie Express on South Side of Chicago, 1946.
R. R. Malinoski
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510013-1-100x80.jpg)
![a streamliner pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510014-1.jpg)
Chicago–Miami Dixie Flagler on South Side of Chicago, 1940s.
Paul Eilenberger
![a streamliner pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510014-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510081-1.jpg)
Chicago–Florida Dixieland (seasonal, January–April only) near Woodland, Ill.
C&EI
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510081-1-100x80.jpg)
![a streamliner sitting outside a shop](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510082-1.jpg)
Pacific 1008, streamlined for Dixie Flagler, at Danville, Ill., shops, 1940.
C&EI
![a streamliner sitting outside a shop](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510082-1-100x80.jpg)
![a diesel pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510083-1.jpg)
Cyprus, Ill.–Chicago Meadowlark at 63rd Street (“Little Englewood”), Chicago, April 1948.
John Proebsting
![a diesel pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510083-1-100x80.jpg)
![diners seated in a dining car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510084-1.jpg)
Postwar streamlined dining car.
C&EI
![diners seated in a dining car](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510084-1-100x80.jpg)
![a sign listing train stops](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510151-1.jpg)
Sign at Dearborn Station train gate for Chicago–Evansville train 1, early 1950s.
Wallace W. Abbey
![a sign listing train stops](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510151-1-100x80.jpg)
![a streamliner](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510152-1.jpg)
Pacific 1008 with Chicago–Florida Dixie Flagler departing Chicago on first run, Dec. 17, 1940.
C&EI
![a streamliner](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510152-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510153-1.jpg)
Pacific 1008 with Chicago–Evansville train 1 at Danville, Ill., March 30, 1948.
Union Switch & Signal
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510153-1-100x80.jpg)
![a rail diesel car at night](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510154-1.jpg)
Wayne Leeman
![a rail diesel car at night](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510154-1-100x80.jpg)
![a diesel pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510221-1.jpg)
New Orleans–Chicago Humming Bird approaching Terre Haute, Ind., late 1940s.
Wayne P. Ellis
![a diesel pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510221-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510222-1.jpg)
St. Louis–Chicago Cardinal departing St. Louis, Sept. 11, 1948.
Paul Gibbs
![a steam engine pulling passenger cars](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510222-1-100x80.jpg)
![a steam engine and passenger cars at a station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510223-1.jpg)
Villa Grove–Thebes train 123, with cars from Chicago, at Marion, Ill., 1935.
James A. Felts collection
![a steam engine and passenger cars at a station](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510223-1-100x80.jpg)
![a diesel pulling passenger cars through an intersection](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510224-1.jpg)
Evansville–Chicago Whippoorwill at Danville, Ill., March 30, 1948.
Union Switch & Signal
![a diesel pulling passenger cars through an intersection](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gp1510224-1-100x80.jpg)
Please enjoy this photo gallery of Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger trains, originally published online in 2015.