A Metra train pauses in front of the Railroad Park that allows for safe railfanning with an old Milwaukee Road caboose and tower to keep you busy when there are no trains running.
Paint scheme on the former Chicago gallery cars matches the locomotive nicely!
Heading out of Union Station and hazing up the area having just belched out a cloud of smoke.
This color scheme is still a bit odd to me. I wonder what they'd look like with a more normal Metra scheme?
The sun broke in time to make this shot.
Metra 116 pauses at Hinsdale on her run to Aurora
A Metra train backs into Union Station along the Chicago River.
Breezing into Tinley Park on a snowy day is Rock Island train #509.
A westbound suburban departs The Zoo Stop in the late afternoon.
An inbound train flies by on it's way back to the Loop on a frigid evening.
METRA trainsets lay silent in the Elgin coach yard, awaiting tomorrow's rush of passengers into Chicago.
As lake effect snow clouds roll over the city of Chicago, an outbound Metra BNSF commuter train pulls into the Cicero, IL depot to drop off a load of rush hour commuters.