High above downtown Aurora, one of the few active ATSF paint B40-8Ws crawls through town with a long manifest train for BNs Eola yard.

Built in 1915, the quarter mile long elevated viaduct above the streets of downtown Aurora serves its purpose on a beautiful August morning, as a pair of 70macs cruise by with coal empties for Bla... (more)

BNSF Eola Yard (McClure Road) looking east toward Chicago. Remnants of CB&Q roundhouse at left.

Lot of activity going on in this one! A Metra commuter train sits outside the Aurora Transportation Center and Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora, IL, waiting for its call to duty. Up above is BNSF... (more)

Lot of activity going on in this one! A Metra commuter train sits outside the Aurora Transportation Center and Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora, IL, waiting for its call to duty, while an outboun... (more)

It’s a busy weekday afternoon in Downtown Aurora as C-BTMCXC crosses Galena Blvd on the 2,000 foot long section of elevated trackage splitting through the heart of downtown. The elevated trackag... (more)

Amtrak's newest heritage unit, the 164, leads the California Zephyr West into Aurora.

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)

After working Suncast in Batavia, R-CHI452 returns to Eola with H-1 GP38-2, 2321, in the lead

CN 3115, the BC Rail Heritage Unit, passes through Aurora as it leads oil empties down the former EJ&E mainline

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 Burlington Northern freight rumbles through Aurora, Illinois, and passes BN/Metra commuter trains laying over in Hill Yard on Saturday, April 16, 1988. The second unit on the freight i... (more)

SSW 8085 leads a solid GE consist with an eastbound intermodal train on the Burlington Northern past the old Depot in Aurora Illinois, entering the famed triple track racetrack into Chicago.

Burlington Northern EMD E9A No. 9922 on a BN/Metra commuter train rests for the weekend at Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 15, 1992. Twenty-five former Burlington E8A and ... (more)

Burlington Northern commuter trains at Aurora, Illinois, were being powered by both venerable BN EMD E9s and new Metra EMD F40PHM-2 locomotives on February 22, 1992.