After disembarking passengers and making its positioning moves, Metra Heritage Corridor train #917 makes its shove move to the Washington Street Coach Yard. METX 107 and 402 make for a neat double... (more)
Metra 99 arrives into Joliet with Heritage train 917.
Metra 917 departs passes CP-Lumber with a train bound for Joliet. Leading the way is F59PH 99, one of three such models on Metra. On the left is the Amtrak Y25 yard job, which is spinning an inbou... (more)
METX 124 heads south through the Amtrak shop while AMTK 150 waits on the wye.
Metra 118 leads the first heritage corridor of the evening into Joliet. Sure looks empty with the classic signal bridges gone.
Metra 122 makes a station stop over at the temporary platform in Joliet with the first heritage corridor train of the evening.
As the sun pops out on a stormy day, Metra 102 makes a stop on new UP main 1 with heritage corridor 917. UP main 1 is now located where BNSF main 2 was, and BNSF main 2 is now next to BNSF 1.
Metra 103 makes a station stop at the temporary platform in Joliet with the first heritage corridor train of the evening.
The first outbound Heritage Corridor of the evening departs Joliet, passing Silver Cross Field.
Metra 180 slows to a stop, just outside of Joliet Station, preparing to switch onto the Rock Island District. This is the first Heritage Corridor of the evening.
Heritage Corridor train 917 strolls across the BNSF's entrance to Corwith yard, past Corwith tower, and past one of the only remaining GM&O CPL's in Chicago on its journey west toward Joliet.
Offically the only place on Metra's system where you can get an F40PH pasing semaphores....
With the NS Panhandle line and CN/IC main 1 already OOS, this Heritage line train heads south at a crawl.