Village of Glen Ellyn. Metra F40PH-3 no. 143 shuffles around the Ogilvie Transportation Center, returning to the locomotive storage tracks.

Metra Milwaukee North service arriving Fox Lake, final stop

Now approaching Bensenville Metra Station.

METRA 12 Shoves a train toward Union Station.

With the engineer awaiting a door light, the conductor of this decorative outbound Milwaukee District North train ensures the last few straggling commuters are safely aboard before departing Weste... (more)

Holiday Train In The Big City. Shortly before midnight on a relatively quiet night in the Windy City, the Holiday Train is slowly making its way into Ogilvie Transportation as train #374 f... (more)

METX 165 and its consist rests in the coach yard at Harvard during the blue hour.

Metra's Union Pacific District holiday train prepares to depart its Ravinia station stop in Highland Park. Fully decorated with Christmas lights, Metra certainly did an incredible job.

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)

METX 500, the RTA heritage unit dressed in holiday lights, brings Milwaukee District North train 2621 into the stop at Fox Lake.

Milwaukee District West 2700 rolls through the plant at Tower A2. The open flame switch heatess are burrning as snow continues to fall.

Metra Milwaukee North train passes Tower A-2 with switch heaters on for anticipated snow. More night photos in Album below.

Sunday at Union Station is comparatively slow compared to the weekday commuter rush. A shiney SD 70MACH heads up this Northbound train out of Union Station. The 507 was originally built in the yea... (more)

METX 500, Metra's RTA heritage unit, glides underneath the former Milwaukee Road signal bridge in Franklin Park, IL as it leads MD-W train 2227 in for a station stop.

METX 402, Metra's "State of Illinois" commemorative unit, makes a rare appearance on the MD-W line leading train 2225 for Elgin. The locomotive's appearance was specially coordinated for... (more)