An express pours it on as the local slows under the signal bridge holding the classic C&NW E type heads.
METX 168 shoves on the rear of inbound train 814, possibly the most photographed train in the Chicago, as 7 RP photographers get their own angles. Railroad: MetraLocomotive: EMD F40PH-2Location: Lake Forest, Illinois, USALocomotive #: METX 168Train ID: METX 814Photo Date: April 24, 2010
Passing blooming trees and a locomotive bell on display, Metra 168 accelerates out of the Lake Forest station, shoving a train toward downtown Chicago on this increasingly foggy evening.
Another in the parade of outbound scoots leaves from Chicago's Union station.
VIA #5 is minutes into it's 2 day trip from Jasper to Prince George. Today's train consists of F40PH-2 6435, coach 8117 and skyline 8506.
Operation Lifesaver liveried F40PH-2 6411 heads west on the north track of the Edson Sub approaching Jasper East with "The Canadian."
"Next stop, Clarendon Hills." WB Metra 1249 stops under the rising moon as two trains are seen back a mile or so. The train has just stopped and the doors are about to open as indicated by the re... (more)
A closer view of photo 310958 as it rolls to a stop and passengers wait to board.
Metra F40PH-2 184 pushes an inbound through a snowstorm in Naperville.
Just enough sun comes out to catch an inbound train to the Loop passing the old CNW station as it approches the West Chicago Metra station.
Fords & F40's: Metra 140 pulls its outbound train out of the Fox River Valley and past a Ford F-250 that it's owner parked right next to the tracks.
The spring greens were vibrant at the Royal Botanical Gardens as VIA Train No. 72 passed by just as the sun burned thru the morning fog.
