Metra #516 leads the westbound California Zephyr thru Flagg, IL. The Zephyr is detouring over the C&NW due to flooding. The E-unit is needed for cab signals.
The engineer of a morning rush hour "dinky" looks intently ahead as he nudges his train out of the station stop.
'Fox in the henhouse!' Tucked in between the veteran E9's, the new Metra 'Winnebago' tries to blend in. So soon the E's will be gone from the 'Racetrack'.
The controls of Metra Cab Car 8589.
The air doors of Metra coach 740 close, activated by a trainman in another car. The days of this 1950 Budd Company alumnus, assembled by Shotwelding and once a proud bearer of the Chicago, Burling... (more)