Amtrak's SB afternoon Milwaukee-St. Louis train, the Prairie State, calls at the old Sturtevant depot on a beautiful spring afternoon. The 406 started life as the Milwaukee Road 30C.
A Kenosha Electric Railway PCC car, still in its original Toronto paint scheme, approaches the METRA station stop on the railway's 1.7 mile loop around the Kenosha harbor area.
While a Charger locomotive provides the power on the north end, a non-powered NPCU brings up the markers as a Hiawatha Service train to Milwaukee rolls through the Lake Forest Metra station at tra... (more)