Metra 104, the Chicago unit, sits in Elgin waiting to depart with train 2724. For the first time this year, Metra has decorated several trains (five total) with Christmas decorations.

UP West Line train #61 swings around the corner at Ogden Ave.

UP North Line train #363 swings around the corner at Grand Ave.

Milwaukee District North Line train #2143 passes under the signal bridge at Green Street.

NIRC #4 with three bi-levels at Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island, IL.

After being shut down for about 2 hours due to tornado warnings, an eastbound UP west line suburban heads past Tower A2.

After a small squall line of snow showers raced through Downtown Chicago on a windy and chilly Halloween afternoon, Metra rush hour at Ogilvie Transportation Center is starting to begin as numerou... (more)

A Metra commuter train passes under a original PRR signal with the city skyline back drop.

Metra's CB&Q heritage engine is seen heading into downtown Chicago as it passes the Amtrak's 14th Street Yard.

In a view from Roosevelt Road overpass, Metra MP36PH-3S No. 402 powers a Metra commuter train at Chicago, Illinois, on April 17, 2009.

Bi-level Metra Highliner-equipped commuter trains sit at the end of the former Illinois Central electric main line out of Chicago at University Park, Illinois, on the morning of May 9, 1992. The H... (more)

Metra 98 leads a outbound train through CP Morgan in Chicago.

It’s a gorgeous sunny Sunday afternoon on the first day of October in Downtown Chicago, as Metra 115 outbound to Joliet gets underway as it departs LaSalle Street Station and is seen here crawli... (more)

METRA #425 Rock Island Heritage unit leads a train Southbound out of downtown Chicago on a warm last day of September

Sitting in the foreground the METX 112 is being moved in the BNSF Metra yard in Chicago. If memory serves this yard had slang name "The Tiger Pitt" years back.