A father and son try their luck along the Fox River as the Veteran's unit sails across with UP NW train 643 for McHenry.

120, 217 and 158 spend the night at Waukegan's Coach Yard as temperatures dip into the 30's.

On an unseasonably cold night, the Veteran's unit overnights at the Waukegan Coach Yard as it awaits the next morning's call to duty.

It's a cold and snowy night, less than a week before Christmas as 2131 makes its pull to clear the signal at Fox Lake West, before shoving into the coach yard. Vets unit #120 provides the power.

Metra 180 leads a outbound SWS train into the Oak Lawn Patriot station.

VIA 6451 leads the morning combined 50/60 through the rapidly changing trees of Northumberland County.

VIA #1, the westbound "Canadian" crosses over from CN's Bala Sub to CPKC's Parry Sound Sub at Boyne/Reynolds.

Metra 120, the Veterans unit leads Heritage Corridor 915 South into Lemont.

VIA F40PH-3s 6455 and 6415 hustle train #1 west on CN's Edson Sub between Wildwood and Chip Lake.

Westbound VIA Rail Canada train #1 makes its station stop in Jasper, AB as CN's X301 departs after a crew change.

VIA Rail Canada train #6 from Prince Rupert passes an unlikely lead unit on CN train Q102 at Grant Brook.

Metra 120, the Veterans unit, leads Southwest Service train 819 into Palos Park.

METX 120, Metra's F40PH-3 that is newly painted in a scheme to honor those who have served in our Armed Forces, idles on a stub track at the downtown Elgin, IL Metra station, where it will partake... (more)

It's a cold night in Mundelein and Christmas is just around the corner. NCS train 117 is making its station stop with the Metra Veteran's unit in charge.

METX 120, Metra's F40PH-3 newly painted in a stylized Veterans tribute scheme, rolls into the Schiller Park Metra station with NCS train 117, American flag eagle prominently displayed on the nose.