Metra 205 shoots up a cloud of smoke as it barrels towards Chicago.

A yard crew is placing Metra 190 into position for the evening rush at Roosevelt Road as they pass a set of new wheels.

Slumbering the weekend away, some Metra suburban equipment sits below High St. in Aurora.

With grade crossing horn displayed, Metra 186 shoves hard out of Orland Park with a run back to Union Station.

A BNSF/Metra Suburban train leaves the Windy City behind, headed under the crusty old Airline Bridges on the near south side of Chicago.

An outbound Metra train heads west on the BNSF Race Track.

A Metra train crosses the bridge in Blue Island.

A very late running Southwest Chief gets help from a BNSF locommotive while a Sunday afternoon outbound commuter gets ready to stop.

An outbound express passes an inbound local during the morning rush. There's a high green on track two for another inbound express.

A "Winnebago" slides her train down the slope towards the CN diamond at Grayslake.

METRA trainsets lay silent in the Elgin coach yard, awaiting tomorrow's rush of passengers into Chicago.

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)

What's this?!? It took me a second to gauge what I was seeing. Of the hundreds, nee, thousands of Metra trains I've seen over the past 18 years or so, I have never seen a Metra uni... (more)

The evening rush is dying down as the sun sets on Downers Grove/Main St. Station. An outbound train is about to knock down an approach signal as it departs for points west.