During its first day running revenue service, METX 405 blasts by the Milwaukee Road depot in Deerfield, IL while sporting its sharp Hiawatha Milwaukee Road paint scheme.

This afternoon on January 10th, Metra MP36 405 made its inaugural run out of Chicago in Milwaukee Road paint! Recently released from the paint shop, it looked great for the railfans on hand for th... (more)

An outbound Metra train has left Chicago Union Station behind and heads for the suburbs a very cold January weekend day.

A southbound METRA commuter train cruises through the Amtrak 18th Street maintenance facility with the Chicago holiday skyline as a backdrop.

BNSF's "Northstar Holiday Train" arrives the Big Lake transit platform for boarding passengers going on a free ride to St. Paul Union Depot.

A Quartet of VRE trains on their lay over.

Metra 423 leads outbound NCS train 105 through River Grove.

Four of a kind in the yard.

At the bumping post.

Palm trees, the setting sun and the unmistakable grit of Los Angeles are pictured as a UP and Metrolink train roll through East Redondo.

The 8:10 Northstar approaches Target Field Station on a snowy November morning. This picture is from the opposite angle of my previous pictures of the Northstar, taken from a plaza on the riverban... (more)

Metra 410 leads the 765 excursion consist back west through Tinley Park on its way to Joliet. It was interesting seeing the commuter engine pulling a string of private cars.

Operating as "Extra 425 West", Metra's "Rock Island" MP36 #425 leads the Passenger Train Journal 50th Anniversary special past the 16th Street Tower out of Chicago, bound for J... (more)

UTA 15 shoves a southbound FrontRunner from Ogden to Provo, just reaching greater Salt Lake City area.