Metra 189 crosses the pedestrian crossing at Belmont, slowing for a stop.

Just like the good old days...An Amtrak F40 (now Cabbage) leads the Illinois Zephyr into Chicago...Only now it must have a P42 pushing. Here it flies by the historic Main Street Station in a brisk... (more)

BNSF 809, an Ex-SF C40-8W, leads a green BN SD40-2 #7163 on a very colorful Westbound Intermodal.

Metras 198, and 185, both F40PHM-2's, push hard out of Belmont Station and head for Downers Grove Main Street.

A pair of green machines pull westbound containers through the Belmont plant. Scanned from ISO 200 print film.

Light engines passing through the "Christmas-ified" downtown. Notice the wreaths on the lightpoles.

Conrail "Q" SD60I, with mismatched numberboards, and a Santa Fe SD40-2 lead BRCGAL - the train most likely to have odd, rare, or lots of power on the BNSF.

A pair of F40PHM-2s shove a passenger train toward the city. At far right, John Poshepny, partially obscured by the lamp post, and James Hart (in plaid) observe its passing. Scanned from ISO 400 p... (more)

A new switch section lays in near the MoW siding at the end of my street. The crane, two tampers and a tie crane wait patiently for the next weekend so they can continue the work in DG. Hmmmm, I w... (more)

Coming right at ya! An eastbound coal drag switches from Main 2 to 3 after it passed trackwork on 3 about a mile west of here.

Metra 198 and Metra 185 really begin to smoke it up as they accelerate out of Belmont Station.

Here's a close up of Metra 198 double headed by Metra 185 at Belmont Station.

Here comes the outbound SW Cheif with AMTK 160 and AMTK 87. Of course, it lacks any freight.

BNSF 4373 teams up with an NS Horsehead SD70M as it highballs a Westbound mixed freight at sunset. Note the engineer is giving us the 'Peace" sign.