Another busy rush hour as an inbound commuter train clears the crossing and auto and pedstrian traffic is allowed to cross.

They're coming down! The second day in the lowered position, the soon to be gone CB&Q searchlights witness one of the last outbounds of the day. A movie crew tears down on the Columbia ... (more)

Some relatively new power on lowly manifest heads west.

Due to an operational problem, the morning fleet was held up for twenty minutes at West Hinsdale. There are four trains in this view.

The westbound California Zephyr rolls past Loomis and the leaving trees on it's way to it's second stop of it's 2,200 mile trip.

One, two, three! The second train seen in 314915 is now in the foreground. The third train is still visible ... (more)

A Low cold system in its last day of an 8 day grip on Chicago generated some awesome weather. A couple of minutes after I took this shot, there was sun rain!

An inbound Metra with the tell-tale green streak passes the site of the former Lake St tower and under the "L." On the left side of the frame, construction is in progress on a new building that wi... (more)

Not your ordinary consist!. Metra only runs multiple unit consists elephant style. Here, Metra's thouroughly washed OLI locomotive is back to back with the 215 on SWS instead of BNSF as i... (more)

WB Illinios Zephy makes a late fall Blue Hour station stop on it's way west.

EB coal train passes the fields of rural northern Illinois on a heavy grade. Who says northern Illinois is ALL flat? cab windows on the DPU unit is visible at the end of the train.

An outbound express rushes past a local making its stop whose passengers have already dis-embarked from the train.

An inbound train from Michigan shows just how much additional snow falls on the east side of Lake Michigan.