The builder's plate on METX 198. This is the last class of locomotive to have the "LaGrange" box checked.

198's reflection in the ticket agent's window makes for an interesting shot. In the window are three signs for safe travel on/near Metra trains.

This long, white trailer train is headed up by two BNSF Dash 9s, the second with an American flag attached to the vertical section of handrail behind the A/C box. And AC6000CW CSXT 653.

183 comes through, sporting it's shiny new black paint on the undercarriage. It's good to see a standard F40 back on an express by itself. At Main Street, the engineer got out and checked the fuel... (more)

People told me I was throwing my money away on that 500mm F/8 lens. Whatever... Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

405 pulls hard out of the Faiview Ave. station in Downers Grove.

9555 and sister SD70MAC briefly go into run 8 as they slam by on track 3 westbound in Downers.

A most interesting local this morning...a small tank car and six ATSF boxcars came and went with the locomotive. Plus, it stayed in DG for over an hour and stopped for about 10 minutes in town, bl... (more)

Flags and Flares leads a UP intermodal on the 3rd anniversary of Sept 11th.

Goin' slow, runnin' wrong main, about to stop. It did stop and blocked all three crossings in town for a good 10 minutes. Also preventing an ambulance from crossing.

Goin' slow, runnin' wrong main, about to stop. It did stop and blocked all three crossings in town for a good 10 minutes. Also preventing an ambulance from crossing.

A true telesmash, a westbound suburban blows west down No. 2 track between Maple Avenue and Washington Street overcrossings in Downers Grove. Scanned from ISO 400 print film.

On a crisp, cool September 11th morning, an inbound Metra slows to stop at Main Street station. The flag in town has been lowered to half staff for today.

The engineer of the Westbound California Zephyr waves to the flagman at Forest Avenue, who was sent to gaurd the crossing after I called BNSF. The maintenance crew arrived very quickly and replace... (more)

After I called BNSF about the broken-off gate here, they sent a flagman who got out of the cab of this F40 at the crossing. The F40 blew it's horn many times here and then proceeded. The flagman s... (more)