From the personal pre-creativity archives comes this shot of a shovelnose and that thing on #3 track.

Improbably, during Downers Grove's Heritage Festival (the local annual four-day carnival, which draws lots of small children), BNSF has removed the chain-link fence between #1 and #2 track. In a b... (more)

Amtrak train 3 rolls west through Eola. Another endangered paint scheme, Phase IV, is worn by the third unit.

Quality power in charge of a deadhead pauses at Main Street.

An unimportant set of light power, headed for Eola Yard, rolls through Downers Grove on a July afternoon in 2004.

Somehow, a business car found itself attached to this container train. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

At the conclusion of a day in La Grange, Metra 189 rolls into the depot. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

194 rolls into Downers Grove with just another westbound rush hour suburban train.

Last I checked, didn't a standing air test take less than 25 minutes?

Framed by a pair of trees, an unidentifiable suburban train rolls west behind locomotive 402.

Only a few days after Thanksgiving, the Christmas wreaths are out in force in Downers Grove. MP36 405 poses here with its train at the Main Street depot. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

Pessimism on the part of the congregation in Eola today suggested that this westbound signal bridge would be long gone by the end of the year. Over two years later, it still stands.

Metra F40PHM-2 number 193 departs Clarendon Hills, not quite headed Everywhere West. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

An unknown suburban train heads east out of La Grange early on a fine August afternoon. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

A pair of green machines pull westbound containers through the Belmont plant. Scanned from ISO 200 print film.