The engineer of the Illinois Zephyr gave us a lot of waves and horn as he pulled out from his stop at Naperville. A getting ever-rarer Phase 3 (with a big dent in the front) pulls it today.

196 cruises through Naperville for Route 59

31 back when she wore a real paint scheme. Hogger Lou Strozza's use of simple modulation was all it took to make that annoying K5 sound good.

405 has a long train in this unremarkable photo.

I honestly don't know how he can pass me halfway down the platform at 45 mph and manage to stop without overshooting the platform. Later that night my beloved Chicago White Sox turned a 5-4-3 trip... (more)

405 glows in the setting sun, its colors much more vibrant than usual. Guess whose shadow that is?

Pulled in a few minutes after Amtrak's Illinois Zephyr.

BN 5346 leads a unit train of emptys west on the center track.

BN9903 pushing commuter toward Naperville

Metra train hurries west. Chicago Metra has been argued one of the best commuter rail services in the United States.

Brand New METX 402 is on it's first test run with Metra Test cars. The train was due to depart Union Station in Chicago at 8am, but due to locomotive loading troubles did not depart until after 11... (more)