RailPictures.Net Photo: Metra None at Chicago, Illinois by Marshall W. Beecher

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» Metra Tower A2
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In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.

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