Union Pacific Yard EMD GP15AC No. 715 leads a 2-set ballast conveyor train south on the Kenosha sub towards Ravenswood whilst splitting the signals at Wilmette. This portion of the Kenosha sub see... (more)
The 2017 CTA Holiday Train holds at the end of the Purple Line at Linden.
The CTA Holiday Train holds at Linden in Wilmette.
The CTA holiday train pulls into the Linden station on the CTA Purple Line.
METX 167 leads an outbound.
METX 136 leads an outbound through Wilmette.
One of Metra's OLS units leads the private club car run past the signals at the Evanston-Wilmette border.
The CTA Holiday Train holds in Wilmette, IL.
We are inside the Chicago Transit Authority's Linden Shops as the two historical cars built in 1922 prepare to depart their normal hiding spot at Linden for the Skokie Shops.
CTA 4272-4271, stored away but not forgotten by all transit enthusiasts... Hopefully, someday, the CTA will come around and operate some excursions with these cars.
Our four car charter train sits at Linden on the Purple Line. This is the northern edge of the CTA system.
Loop bound arriving at its second of two stops in Wilmette. These were the oldest cars in revenue service at the time serving the richest CTA patrons.
The station has since been closed and the cars retired. I have just learned the boy looking on is railfan Bob Rodenkirk, a WBBM radio broadcaster in Chicago.
Station under construction
