MP36 #404 and F40 #191 accelerate hard up the hill, while the cars head down the hill.

Metra MP36 402 departs Naperville

5 MP36s are visable in this shot! 404, 406, 401, 402, and 405. This was quite a sight!

Snow incrusted 417 awaits his next trip West.

Metra departs Chicago Union Station making its way toward the BNSF's Chicago Sub for a trip out to Aurora, as an Amtrak SW1200R shuffles around some roadrailers.

Metra 403 passing the tower at Riverside.

METX 415 takes his train West toward Bensenville.

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.

407 pulls Lisle's "Polar Express," with Santa and other characters onboard, at trackspeed through Downers Grove. While not as impressive as Pere Marquette 1225, it's still nice to hear an MP36 roa... (more)

On a cold and foggy November evening, locomotive 424 poses just long enough for a three-second exposure here in the Roselle depot parking lot. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

METX 408 and 410 work together and take this Chicago bound Metra out of Joliet.

Metra 404 in the plant at Fairview Ave.

A new MPI MP36PH-3C lays over in Elgin waiting for the next day's commuter rush.