Passing Geraniums neatly-planted along the platform at Hinsdale, Illinois, is a westbound Metra “dinky” accelerating after discharging passengers at the station stop on the pleasant spring aft... (more)

A "Winnebago" F40 brings up the rear of Heartland Corridor train 834.

Metra F40 109 shoves on the rear of an inbound commuter train arriving in Chicago.

Southwest Service train 863 heads out of town as they pass the Amtrak facility below Union Station.

Metra's Burlington heritage unit is seen at Aurora with the former CB&Q roundhouse in the background. Formerly home to Walter Payton's Restaurant, the roundhouse is now home to Two Brothers Brewin... (more)

A Metra deadhead move heads into Union Station.

Metra westbound train #505 hammers across the CN at JB Tower in West Chicago. The diamond here looks like its in pretty tough shape in early 2021. The diamond sits down in a hole, but then again I... (more)

Z-CHCSSE overtakes outbound 1313 at Naperville with METX F40PH-2 122 leading while F40PHM-2 214 shoves an inbound towards Chicago.

The morning rush hour is winding down as Metra train 1232 from the western suburb of Brookfield, making all the local stops en route, passes through the maze of trackage at Control Point Taylor as... (more)

Metra Fox Lake train #2141 swings around the curve at Canal Street during a major winter storm that dumped roughly 18" in the city.

An eastbound suburban heads for Union Station as Chicago as 18" of snow engulfs the city.

Metra train #351 to Waukegan departs Ogilvie Transportation as near blizzard conditions engulf the city.

Heavy snow whips around Ogilvie Transportation Center as Metra battles to keep things moving on time.

Metra 104 departs the Joliet Gateway Center with Heritage Corridor 917.

For several years in the early 1990’s, Amtrak would borrow some equipment from Chicago’s Metra to sub for Amtrak trains on the Chicago to Milwaukee “Hiawatha” corridor on Thanksgiving week... (more)