Three of a kind at the coach yard as METX 89. 77 and 85 all wait for Monday as they layover the weekend.

The conductor checks the platform as NCS 117 makes the stop at Round Lake Beach. The recently rebuilt 98 leading the way on a wet evening.

T4 heads for Metra territory as it passes Fox lake and the Fox River on a rare daylight run to Chicago.

Some of the units currently displayed in yard five, under an amazing sunset.

CP 2272 pulls the FRA inspection cars through Lake Forest.

The Chicago and North Western 411 poses at IRM.

The weekend line up in the coach yard at Elburn.

METX 74, METX 138 and METX 90 wait out the weekend in the yard at Elburn.

METX 94 and METX 104 bring 2139's train through Hainesville on it's way to Fox Lake.

Milwaukee District North train 2140 cleared the mainline at Fox Lake for the daylight move of WSOR's T001X. Here the WAMX 4171 leads it's train past the METX 405 at the Fox Lake depot.

One of Metra's Rock Island District switchers, NIRC 10 (GP23ECO) arrives at Vermont Street while the 425 brings a mid-day outbound train on platform 2.

IRM's coach train, powered by Shay 5, crosses Olson Road as the sunset glints of it's side.

The M&E 18 sits, displayed in yard 5, with the C&NW 6847, UP 1848 and the Nekoosa Paper 14.

Shay 5 makes the reverse move from the siding and starts the return trip to the East Union depot.

Inaugural runs for the Chicago and Northwestern heritage locomotive, here the train heads outbound over I90 / I 94, with the METX 402 trailing. Of note, is the Chicago and Northwestern heralds th... (more)