Happy Holidays! Metra's Union Pacific holiday train makes its Lake Forest station stop with train #366. It's doubly special this year as the trainset is wrapped for Operation North Pole. Op... (more)

A Southbound tank train gliding down the C&M towards Bensenville through the Northern suburbs of Chicago with a welcomed SD70ACU leader. I was on my way to Wisconsin when I saw this guy sitting ju... (more)

Metra 134 shoves a train towards Chicago as it pulls out of Lake Forest. The unit has a fresh paint job due to being rebuilt recently. The conductor told us that he thought that this was the uni... (more)

KCSM 4654 (ES44AC) leads southbound CPKC manifest 248 past the Metra station in Lake Forest, IL.

A second section of T001 heads through Lake Forest with the 30th & 40th anniversary units.

CP 2272 pulls the FRA inspection cars through Lake Forest.

A pair of SOO SD60s lead CP 182 east into Lake Forest.

A nice trio of CP EMD's hustle east through Lake Forest on the former Milwaukee Road. They're in charge of train 286, which runs from St. Paul to Bensenville. The lead unit is of former Delaware &... (more)

METX 84 leads into Lake Forest.

A flashback to colder times: CP 8701 leads a southbound freight through Lake Forest on the C&M.

While a Charger locomotive provides the power on the north end, a non-powered NPCU brings up the markers as a Hiawatha Service train to Milwaukee rolls through the Lake Forest Metra station at tra... (more)

Metra Cab Car #8513 leads an inbound train into Lake Forest, Illinois with engineer Jeff Meehan at the controls.

Amtrak NPCU #90221, née F40PH #221, leads a Hiawatha Service train past the depot at Lake Forest, Illinois. Being one of Amtrak's Veteran's units, the 90221 is instantly recognizable and is a sta... (more)

Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH #517 leads a Hiawatha Service train past the depot at Lake Forest, Illinois. The frigid temperatures seem to have been sidelining the brand-new SC-44 Chargers and bringing out ... (more)

Two Metra trains meet at the Lake Forest station in the northern part of Chicagoland. The train on the left is inbound to Chicago, while an outbound train approaches on the adjacent track. Since t... (more)