Metra private car charter is returning to Chicago from end of Metra Milwaukee West Line Line at Big Timber.

Metra 128 "City of Evanston" lead an outbound commuter rush hour train from the Ogilvie Center.

Metra 401 named after Oliver "Ollie" Tibbles shoves an inbound train to Chicago while an outbound approaches the station in Franklin Park.

A Metra train on the old Rock Island approaches the diamond with the old Illinois Central at the still-manned 16th Street Tower.

A Metra Electric train approaches the Van Buren Station, the first stop on its run out of downtown Chicago, on a misty night in the Windy City.

Union Pacific 1433 navigates a maze of switches as it shuffles a lone bilevel Metra car at the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago. The signals shine brightly on this dismal day.

Looking like a scene from the opening credits of "Hill Street Blues," a Metra train emerges from the Ogilvie Transportation Center to begin its trip to the Chicagoland suburbs.

Two Metra trains meet at the Lake Forest station in the northern part of Chicagoland. The train on the left is inbound to Chicago, while an outbound train approaches on the adjacent track. Since t... (more)

Magic Time- Be here at exactly 17:15 Monday thru Friday, when 3 outbound CNW scoots race out of O.T.C, and mix it up among staged inbound train sets. The spectacle is an impressive colliding mass ... (more)

Morgan Meet- Pennsy Sentinels and skyline salute Fox Lake inbound, as outbound with "New" METX 99 sneaks in the frame.

One of the newest additions to the Metra roster leads an outbound express through Franklin Park on its way out to Elgin.

This weekend I had the honour of attending CRPA's annual conference in Lake Forest as one of three docent scholars. Prior to the event and in between presentations, I made a point of getting track... (more)

Storms roam across the western sky in northern Illinois as an inbound Metra train to Chicago arrives at the La Fox station on June 20, 2015.

One of Metra's "New" F59PHs leads train 2237 under the Pennsy signal bridge at CP Morgan in Chicago.