An outbound Metra train hustles through the snowy tundra as it closes in on its final destination of Joliet.
Metra 113 heads west across Gougar Rd with MP36PH-3S 424 leading the way for Joliet, while doing every bit of trackspeed plowing its way through a plow line from the previous nights snowstorm whic... (more)
Outbound Rock Island kicking up a bit of snow. Total accumulation ended up at around 10 inches.
Joliet bound train passes the soon to be replaced Rock Island signals.
Franklin Park Railroad Days throwback
The afternoon rush is in full swing as Metra MP36 No.424 prepares to slam the diamonds of the former Soo Line just before making it's Franklin Park stop.
Metra 424 approaches its station stop at Lake Forest, headed west to Fox Lake.
"Modelers view" of the MP36 as she pushes back towards the city.
Crossing over from 1 to 2 to get on the Fox Lake sub.
Outbound Metra blasts out of town honking for the people lined up on the northern platforms of the locomotives parked at Railroad Daze.
The Sears Tower and the Franklin Park Water Tower stand tall as Metra MP36 424 throttles up through Franklin Park.
Sliding down the grade towards the CN diamond.
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.
