Metra and Amtrak race each other out of the station! Both trains were delayed after one of the platform snowplows fell onto the tracks and had to be removed by a backhoe!

A pair of pumpkins kick up a snowstorm on their way west with M-BRCGAL (RCHI450) in tow.

A conductor keeps a watchful eye over the platform as train 383, the Illinois Zephyr, eases out of its station stop in Naperville.

A pair of SP SDs pass through Lisle on a re-routed train.

Aurora bound commuter.

The Empire Builder at full stride on the Q’s three track thoroughfare.

The fall colors begin to show as a Metra rounds the elevated curve in Naperville

A "dinky" heads west on the former CB&Q

A pair of the J's famous orange SD38s hustle empty coal cars from the State Line Power Plant back to the BNSF.

EMD Oakway SD60 9045 heads east through Naperville with a manifest.

Two not-quite-brand-new ES44ACs pull an empty coal train westbound past appropriately named Burlington Park.

2 westbounds illustrate the term "Racetrack" at Naperville! In the foreground is CHI452 on Main 3 while the EOSSCM light power is on Main 1. Both movements are bound for Eola Yard.

Old #11 hustles along the Racetrack and under one of the fast disappearing CB&Q style signal bridges at Naperville. Z-STPCHC is parked on Main 2 in the background.

The California Zephyr slows for her station stop at Naperville and passes under a typical CB&Q style signal bridge.

Westbound empties head into the curve.