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.

Originally Built as the RTA 184, an F40PH-2, The METX 184 pulls south out of Lasalle Street Station, Chicago. This shot is right along Clark Street as the train heads for the 16th Street Diamond.

An inbound departs after boarding passengers at National Street Station in Elgin, while an investigation is going on with the outbound on the left. Apparently they struck a pedestrian here... howe... (more)

A Metra outbound blasts towards Harvard on the UP Northwest Line, which will be the furthest west the train will go before heading back to Chicago.

Metra 121, wrapped in Northwestern Medicine colors, leads a outbound train into Des Plaines.

METX 9 a former Cotton Belt unit (SSW 2590) works a ballast train used to dump rock at the Edgington Street grade crossing rebuild project in Franklin Park.

METX 9 a former Cotton Belt unit (SSW 2590) works a ballast train used to dump rock at the Edgington Street grade crossing rebuild project in Franklin Park.

This scene is long gone, with a massive sky scraper built over this portion of the exit from the north platforms of Chicago Union Station. But 17 years ago, if one showed up in the longer days of ... (more)