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)
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.
Merra 131 departs Barrington with a outbound train.
Two of Metra’s specially painted locomotives meet at Joliet Union Station. Metra 425 (Rock Island heritage) waits to depart inbound to Chicago on the RI line while Metra 104 (City of Chicago ins... (more)
Two Tenny leads the 3 o'clock outbound express from Union Station.
The orange trim around the number boards really pops out on Metra's newest repainted F40PH.
Outbound UP West Line Metra at last light.
Metra MP36PH-3S No. 426 leads a westbound Metra commuter train past the tower at Rondout, Illinois, on Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road main line and is clattering over the EJ&E, that just becam... (more)
METX 402 shoves an inbound train back to the city after departing Joliet Metra Station on a beautiful Sunday evening.
Metra’s “City Of Chicago” inspired locomotive screams past the Historic Gaylord Building in Downtown Lockport with Heritage Corridor 919.
An outbound Metra rolls west through Franklin Park.
An outbound Metra rolls west through Brookfield, Ill.
The first F40PH that is painted in the new Metra scheme leads a train out of Elmhurst, Illinois at the end of an October day.
With it’s CB&Q heritage shining in the setting sun, METX 211 leads train 1263 as well with 186 into a station stop at La Grange, Stone Avenue, which has a vintage CB&Q depot.