An outbound Metra electric zips past an idling CN train

I saw this train getting on to I-294 at Harlem ave and managed to beat it to Blue Island. Here's to slow track speeds.

An NS train heads for the BNSF, as it passes two idling P42s.

putting a train together, this P32 backs up to get more cars.

Metra highliners, old and new, waiting over the afternoon.

An outbound double header highballs past the new construction on the site of the Rock Island's freight yard. Once it's complete, this wonderful view of the Rock Island tracks from Roosevelt will b... (more)

Inbound and outbound trains meet, as a third gets ready to go back in the terminal. Will shots like this still be possible once the construction to the left is finished?

though the skyline and rolling stock may change, this scene has otherwise remained consistent for almost a century.

A BNSF geep 50 hangs out with other fine EMD products in the Union Station couch yard.

a BNSF coal drag gets ready to head onto Amtrak trackage, as a P32 shunts cars around the coach yard.

in a brief clear moment on an otherwise cloudy day, an east bound Metra pulls out of the Oak Park station.

A commuter awaiting his train sits oblivious to the chaos of the beginning of the evening Rush as scoots are ferried to the coach yard passing outbound trains