Belmont is a good place to railfan, thanks to the superelevated curve.
189 with an outbound meets 192 with an inbound at Belmont. You can see two more sets of headlights way, way down there.
The sun and clouds collaborated perfectly in this shot!...to screw it up...
A meet between older F40 and the newer F40.
Speeding over the 3 month-old crossing, which is a lot smoother that it was before. Note the second unit has an orange A/C. The excessive space between Mains 2 and 3 is due to the fact that there ... (more)
H2, H2, Warbonnet, H1.
Pulling past all the weeds up to the station.
BNSF 5121 leads a stacktrain West.
With help from an H2 Dash 8 and 9, and a CN SD75I.
A very nice view of BNSF 4445 blasting through Downers Grove Metra Station.
A pair of Dash9s trot on by, not in any particular hurry.
The first SD75M I've seen in a long while. Leading an SD70MAC on an empty coal train.
5720 whooshes by the Metra stopped at the station.
Two H1 SD40-2s lead a westbound intermodal. The first one's patch job isn't very obvious...Can't tell it's FURX until it's right next to ya!
Three Dash9s lead a colorful doublestack westbound. Today was a very successful day--Lots of freight action and plenty of sun.