A Metra train unloads passengers at Joliet.

A commuter train to Manhattan by any other name. A "Scoot", or "Suburban" if you prefer, passes by the Amtrak facility with the famed Chicago skyline.

After detraining passengers at Union Station, train 1234 is running thru the wash rack at Roosevelt with the CB&Q inspired paint leading.

A Metra train is seen from the famous Roosevelt overpass

Heading from downtown Chicago's Union Station to the suburb of Aurora is Metra Metropolitan Rail train 1233, powered by METX F40PHM-2 190 and F40PH-2 113 ... a lot of power for a five car train. ... (more)

Christmas is right around the corner, and Metra is once again celebrating the holiday season by decorating some of its locomotives in Christmas lights. For this season, METX 211 - the CB&Q heritag... (more)

Chicago Metra commuter train 1245 makes its stop at the carrier's Harlem Avenue Station as the sun sets. METX F40PHM-2 195 is pulling seven gallery cars from downtown Chicago (visible by the Will... (more)

An afternoon Metra train rolls slowly by a track gang working on some of the turnouts.

May 10th, 2024. An inbound Metra train is reaching its final destination of Union Station as it pops out from underneath the Roosevelt Road overpass. The F40PHM-2s "Winnebagos" are a sta... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9907 sits alongside two of its replacements—Metra EMD F40PHM-2 Nos. 189 and 191—at Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on February 22, 1992. Metra bought 30 of these ... (more)

An outbound train from the city flies through the Congress Park Metra station in the western suburbs.

Coming and going with a pair of Metra commuter trains operating on the BNSF west line in a view from Roosevelt Road overpass on April 17, 2009. Metra EMD F40PHM-2 No. 200 has been idle for a while... (more)

Metra’s Burlington heritage F40PHM-2 leads a westbound commuter train out of Chicago Union Station.

Metra EMD F40PHM-2 No. 188 sits between runs at Aurora, Illinois, on March 15, 1992. Chicago’s regional commuter authority Metra bought 30 of these units in 1991-92. The 3,200 horsepower locomot... (more)

A westbound suburban makes its stops at Riverside as a westbound Z train is hot on its tail on track 2.