A classic Chicago photo spot. Developers have stacked another thirty story skyscraper in this area that now casts shadows on the tracks in the later afternoon.
A Metra train from Fox Lake swings onto the Canadian Pacific at Rondout.
Two of Metra’s MP36PH-3S are being brought out of the yard leads and around the curve at Canal Street just prior to another rush-hour in Chicagoland.
The Engineer aboard train 2247 is wasting no time in getting his train through Franklin Park as it passes over the crossings at Elm Street and Des Plaines River Road.
What a Metra DPU? Not really, the 416 had a mechanical failure so the 2129 pushes 2125's train out to Fox Lake.
Metra 407 heads south toward Joliet, crossing the St. Charles Air Line and the CN/IC on its way.
Rolling east by the Manheim Road flag stop. The Chicago skyline from 14 miles out.
As UP's E9 951 rests at the Franklin Park Railroad Dayz, Metra 417 puts the hammer down out of the depot.
Inbound train number 420, due into Chicago (LaSalle Street) at 6:27 P.M., departs Joliet right on time at 5:13 P.M., passing U.D. Tower with MP36 410 pushing hard.
Ah, the sweet smell of spring railfanning.
405 passes under the CB&Q signal bridge at Highlands as Z-CHCSSE approaches on the middle.
Inbound Metra run off the Milwaukee Line approaching Union Station, the ballast and track look too clean for anything but a model railroad.
