At dusk, a Metra West Line train departs the Windy City, bound for Big Timber Road near Elgin, IL.

A UTA FrontRunner commute heads north to Salt Lake Central passing a new apartment building at 39th South in Murray City.

Got sand? Yep!

A Northstar Commuter train heads through the signals at 44th Avenue, Minneapolis skyline is in the background.

A Utah Transit Authority FrontRunner commute departs Murray Central station while the 13 story Intermountain Medical Center tower looms in the background. Ironically, this landscape was once occup... (more)

VRE 335 briefly disrupts the semi-rural quiet of Clifton on its way to Manassas

SCAX 889 leads a Northbound Metrolink.

VRE commuter train repositions in the Washington Terminal in between the morning and afternoon rush under the watchful eye of K Tower to the left.

The relief engineer (in the cab) talks to the one going off duty before taking her train out of the station toward Salt Lake.

Northbound and southbound UTA FrontRunner commutes meet at the South Jordan Station on July 5, 2013. Union Pacific's Provo Subdivision main is in the foreground.

A Utah Transit Authority FrontRunner commute meets Amtrak's California Zephyr at the South Jordan Flyover, 15 miles south of downtown Salt Lake City. Amtrak train 6, running about five hours late,... (more)

The 7:10 departure from Camden Station passes Gaslight Square in the Pigtown area of Baltimore. This old brick complex used to be a Valspar plant and has been re-purposed as office space.

The 6:30 departure from Camden Station passes an urban renewal project in the industrial area of Baltimore. In an hour and 10 minutes the passengers will alight in Union Station and head to work. ... (more)

Pictured minutes after sunrise, a UTA FrontRunner commute prepares to stop at the Orem Station on its 90 mile journey from Provo to Ogden. In the past, this area was called 'Lakota Crossing' when ... (more)

The commuter rush is about to begin as southbound VRE train pulls into Rippon Station.