Illinois Zephyr flies through Downers Grove running wrong main

METX 191 sits at Main Street loading/unloading passengers amist heavy snow on the ground. The sun was out for about 45 minutes today

Stopping in the snow at Main Street. No big snow banks unfortunately...

An unimportant set of light power, headed for Eola Yard, rolls through Downers Grove on a July afternoon in 2004.

Only a few days after Thanksgiving, the Christmas wreaths are out in force in Downers Grove. MP36 405 poses here with its train at the Main Street depot. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

Super-shiny, most likely freshly de-Warbonneted, 892, teams up with a 70MAC on a westbound manifest.

Two SD40-2s lead an westbound stack train through the decorated town. Burlington Avenue parallels the tracks for quite a distance to the east of here, no doubt named after the CB&Q.

407 pulls Lisle's "Polar Express," with Santa and other characters onboard, at trackspeed through Downers Grove. While not as impressive as Pere Marquette 1225, it's still nice to hear an MP36 roa... (more)

Here comes another great lashup on BRCGAL...BN 8020, CN SD40-2 5386, CSX Dash 8 7371, NS Dash 8 8414 (with the front door open), NS high-hood GP38-2 4148, and finally HLCX SD40-2 6219. The train w... (more)

Metra 189 crosses the pedestrian crossing at Belmont, slowing for a stop.

Just like the good old days...An Amtrak F40 (now Cabbage) leads the Illinois Zephyr into Chicago...Only now it must have a P42 pushing. Here it flies by the historic Main Street Station in a brisk... (more)