Awaiting the inbound to Chicago on a bright Saturday afternoon.
Metra 410 hits the diamonds to pull up to Joliet's station. The train will depart for downtown Chicago at 2:24, after which a flood of BNSF traffic on the Transcon will commence.
Express rolls thru the curve on track 2. Does anyone know where the train holding point might be? =)
A westbound scoot on the BNSF heads out underneath the Sears Tower and Chicago's skyline.
Metra MP36 404 departs Brookfield with a inbound heading for Chicago.
403 with a frozen coupler slows for a stop at Hinsdale.
Loading passengers at Joliet. Union Depot tower and the high school are in the background.
MP36 409 passes U.D. Tower on its way out of Joliet Union Station.
MP36 405 departs La Grange and heads for its next stop at Brookfield.
After a snowstorm in Chicago, a westbound for Aurora departs Union Station.
Traffic at the busy Maple Ave. road crossing in the back ground wastes no time crossing behind this westbound Metra as it glides under the signal bridge at Fairview just prior to its scheduled 3:1... (more)
Metra MP36 no. 407 pauses to let a deadheading crew off before heading back to couple onto its train. Meanwhile, F40PH no. 103 sits waiting to depart.
A northbound Metra passes a signal bridge near Rondout Tower on its way towards Fox Lake.
METX 412 does the honors of bringing another load of passengars into JUS as the sun sets down the main.
