This inbound Metra train departs the Clarendon Hills Metra Station, on this frigid December afternoon, heading for its next station stop at West Hinsdale.
A Heritage 1 Dash 9 and two Santa Fe veterans sweep around the curve just west of Clarendon Hills.
Eastbound loaded coal coasts downhill out of Westmont around 8:30 AM.
BNSF 9451 leads a coal train eastbound shortly after the morning commuter rush
75, looking a little worse-for-wear, could use a bath and a new, bolted nose. The 43ºF weather is melting all our snow, but on the bright side, it's now good packing snow!
At first glance it would appear that BNSF and Metra are indeed racing on the racetrack. This is not the case however. The BNSF train had stopped after plowing a Buick and the Metra train is in pus... (more)
A highly contrasting light power move - in age and paint. BNSF 2467 brings up the rear of a light power move sporting 4 New ES44ACs and three bluebonnets - a GP39 and two GP30s.
Illinois Zephyr flys past the Clarendon Hills station, next stop LaGrange
A pair of CSX locos, the second a straight SD40 in plain yellow-and-gray scheme, lead over a 100 shiny new coal hoppers west.
A pair of Dash 9s lead an eastbound stacker that seems to wrap around a ballast regulator working on Main 1. The rail was recently replaced here, but now the MoW has moved on down to Missouri via ... (more)
Metra F40PHM-2 number 193 departs Clarendon Hills, not quite headed Everywhere West. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.
