An outbound Milwaukee District train filled with people bound for the burbs rolls under the signal bridge at Racine Street.

Metra 401 is backing towards the platform at Union Station to power BNSF commuter trains to Aurora.

It looks like storm lighting minus the storm. A nice sucker hole provides spot lighting.

One of the last trains of the evening rush departs Union Station, headed for the western suburbs.

Metra 419, sporting new sound-diminishing gear on-board to quiet the idle of the engine, hustles 2227 westbound out of Roselle.

Outbound and inbound trains pass each other just north of Union Station.

An Elgin bound commuter cruises thru Franklin Park after an overnight snow of about 6 inches.

Weekend layover.

METRA 419 heads outbound at Kedzie Ave on 10/21/07 passing under the PRR Position Lights on this section of the former Panhandle/MILW track.

Metra train battles the snow in Chicago. Train is a express train to Glenview operating on the Metra North Line x-Milwaukee Road.

As an Amtrak zips by, a Metra approaches the Belmont station.

A modern day shovel nose for Chicago built in 2003 by the pioneering firm MPI. Too bad the headlight wasn't placed above the windshield like the Railroad: Metra
Locomotive: MPI MP36PH-3S
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: METX 405
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 20, 2008

Leaving a cloud of snow in its wake.

Operating positional signals are a highly contrasting relic of another era against the contemporary downtown skyline