I believe this is one of the Amtrak trains that was scheduled to leave from Chicago a little later that day. The trains are prepared and restocked in this area before they are sent down to the station. The Chicago skyline is in the background.
The photos in this slide show were taken in the mid-1990's by Steve Grande on his Amtrak travels throughout the nation. The size of the photos is purposely smaller as disk space was expensive and download speeds were slower at that time.
