A Heritage 1 Pumpkin hits the home stretch on its trip to Chicago, slowly passing through Brookfield.

Amtrak P42 113 leads the eastbound Illinois Zephyr through Brookfield.

Another westbound oil train over the BN is seen at Congeess Park with the PC in charge this time with the NYC as DPU.

The westbound Southwest Chief makes it way through Brookfield at a slower than normal pace, crossing from main 1 to main 2 to run around a outbound Metra on Easter Sunday. The Phase IV heritage un... (more)

GA8 with a NS SD60I waits for the light at Metra 188 pushes a inbound east.

A "pepsi can" teams up with an F40 on a westbound at Brookfield.

Metra 213 heads west past Congress Park. Note the last car, it's a cab car wrapped for BMO Harris Bank.

Metra 185 leads a outbound train past the Brookfield water tower.

A lashup of SD40-2's crosses the Des Plaines river on a girder deck bridge when the SD40-2's reigned on the BN. I walked out on the ice to take this shot.

Thunder over Milepost 13: Chicagoland is still bathed in morning sun, but not for long as a storm moves in from the west. It’s August 10, 1986 at Milepost 13 on Burlington Northern’s triple track ... (more)

A couple of passengers wait for a modified scheduled outbound train from Chicago as it lights up the post Blue Hour sky.

A BN SD60M duo leads this manifest eastbound to Cicero.

My second best fall color shot. An inbound train runs through the Hollywood stop as a couple of trees are in peak color. Another inbound is behind in the distance.

Chicago South Seattle crests the hill between Riverside and Brookfield as the fall colors begin to fade and the leaves are kicked up on the engineer's side of the train.

After arriving at Eola as a HGFDBRC train and sitting there almost 24hrs, the EMD trio is seen here in Brookfield in charge of a RCHI450 transfer from Eola to BRC Clearing.