It's a cold and snowy night, less than a week before Christmas as 2131 makes its pull to clear the signal at Fox Lake West, before shoving into the coach yard. Vets unit #120 provides the power.

MACH #505 shoves hard with train 2146 as it's just out of the flag stop at Ingleside.

Train 2131 highballs past Emerald Shores Lake in Ingleside, IL.

Puffy clouds dot the sky as trains 2140 and 2142 meet at Grayslake. 2140 (far track) is an inbound from Fox Lake, while 2142 (close track) is a Grayslake flip from outbound train 2119. Fan favorit... (more)

Metra 180 leads a outbound SWS train into the Oak Lawn Patriot station.

Milwaukee District North train 2135 passes MP 42.5 in Hainesville, bound for Fox Lake at a good clip.

On the last day of March, North Central Service train 107 is just out of its stop at Lake Villa. SD70MACH 518 is leading the way by Cedar Lake.

Metra 405, the MILW heritage unit, leads Heritage Corridor 919 South out of downtown Chicago.

Milwaukee District North Train #2146 is inbound to Chicago as it skirts Long Lake in Ingleside, IL. SD70MACH #517 is providing the power. Pretty strong thunderstorms persisted into the morning, bu... (more)

Metra SD70MACH 505 is leading an outbound train and let behind it the Chicago's skyline, during the golden hour.

Mid-Street South Shore. One of the highest numbered Nippon-Sharyo Highliner II cars, METX 1375 (built 2012-2016), was only a few years old when it led METRA Train 329 towards South Chicago ... (more)

Metra 107, the City of Oak Forest, cruises over the Fox River in Geneva. UP is in the process of triple tracking the area.

Metra's CNW heritage unit is finished with its stop at La Fox and hustles west to Elburn.

Train 2119 slows for its stop at Libertyville, led by SD70MACH #502. Some fall color was popping in the area.

The Milwaukee Road heritage unit highballs through Long Lake, bound for its destination of Fox Lake.