Metra F59PHI 75 leads a outbound train through Arlington Heights.

Metra 167 leads a outbound train through Arlington Heights.

Metra 162 pushes a inbound train under a old CNW signal bridge on the East side of Des Plaines.

Metra SD70MACH 503 brings up the rear of the 2023 Franklin Park Railroad Daze display set, passing under the B12 signal bridge.

Sitting on the old Rock Island main line at Joliet Union Station is a Metra bi-level commuter train that is about to depart for Chicago on February 22, 1989. The station, built in 1912, once serve... (more)

Metra's Milwaukee Road heritage unit brings up the rear of the 2023 Franklin Park Railroad Daze display set, passing under the B12 signal bridge.

The Metra display for Franklin Park Railroad Days 2023 arrives to the event as It creeps past Tower B12 with a push-pull of Metra 405 the Milwaukee Road heritage locomotive and one of Metra’s br... (more)

For Railroad Daze at Franklin Park Illinois, one of Metra’s new SD70MACH locomotives powers the special from track 4 to 3 before reversing back to Western Ave Yard.

Seen from above the Clybourn Metra station on the northwest side of downtown Chicago, Metra’s CNW inspired locomotive rounds into the station stop with a UP-NW trainset in tow.

Metra 207 and 184 lead an outbound train into New Lenox Station. Due to track work on the CN Matteson Sub, Metra trains terminate in New Lenox and the equipment moves to the yard.

Painted to commemorate the state of Illinois, this Rock Island line outbound is powered by the one and only 402. Captured here at Tinley Park’s 80th ave station amidst a thin layer of Canadian w... (more)

Towards the latter half of the BNSFs line Metra rush, one of the few blue F40s that BNSF utilizes hauls through Highlands with its first station stop being Downers Grove. Word on the street, is th... (more)

Metra rush is underway for the Union Pacific West line, as Metra’s Chicago & Northwestern commemorative locomotive heads the first rush outbound of the evening. Seen here ducking under the forme... (more)

Metra’s 3:35 p.m. BNSF commuter train to Fairview Avenue is about to depart from Track 10 at Chicago Union Station on May 17, 2023.

Sun begins to set as a late running Metra 919 makes It’s last stop at the historic Lockport depot before terminating at Joliet with METX 104, the City of Chicago inspired locomotive.