A father and son try their luck along the Fox River as the Veteran's unit sails across with UP NW train 643 for McHenry.

120, 217 and 158 spend the night at Waukegan's Coach Yard as temperatures dip into the 30's.

On an unseasonably cold night, the Veteran's unit overnights at the Waukegan Coach Yard as it awaits the next morning's call to duty.

Milwaukee North train 2131 passes Long Lake this evening with F59PH #98 leading. Only a few miles from the destination of Fox Lake, the train would make one more flag stop at the Ingleside station... (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.

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)

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.

On a sunny fall afternoon, MDN #2121 departs its station stop at Grayslake with the Milwaukee Road heritage unit pointing the way.

As train 2142 holds down the siding at Grayslake, an SD70MACH thunders by on the main with train 2121 in tow.

It's a cold night in Mundelein and Christmas is just around the corner. NCS train 117 is making its station stop with the Metra Veteran's unit in charge.

On a very snowy Veterans Day (it's still just Autumn!), a pair of Metra commuter trains meet each other right on time as a passenger, who got off the westbound train (METX 1229, on the right), wai... (more)

METX 120, Metra's F40PH-3 newly painted in a stylized Veterans tribute scheme, rolls into the Schiller Park Metra station with NCS train 117, American flag eagle prominently displayed on the nose.