The ancestor of today's Metra Southwest Service was a single weekday commuter train between Orland Park, IL, and Chicago's Dearborn Station, inherited by the Norfolk & Western from the Wabash. Pas... (more)

FURX 5524 takes an intermodal transfer through Oak Lawn on the old Wabash mainline during the day’s last light.

NKP 765 works its way through the Chicago suburbs en route for Metra's Western Ave Coach Yard. The train will get on the IHB at Chicago Ridge, run up to Franklin Park and then shove across the El... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 works down former Wabash rails towards the connection to the Indiana Harbor Belt at CP Ridge, where it will turn northwest and head to Franklin Park and CP/Metra property for the ... (more)

NS train 261 with a BH02 local crew heads west past the Oak Lawn Metra depot with the Norfolk & Western heritage unit in charge. This train will get on the IHB at Chicago Ridge, head up to the UP ... (more)