METX 402 pulls down over the PRR lift bridge south of Lumber Street over the Chicago River. From here the passenger special will back into Chicago Union Station.

METX 425 leads a commuter train south out of the city on a beautiful evening. 425 is in a Rock Island inspired scheme which makes it appropriate to pass by 16th Street Tower which guarded the Rock... (more)

METX 402, the State of Illinois MP36, leads a passenger special off the Blue Island Branch and onto the Metra Electric Line. This is the only time I've ever seen diesel power on the Electric.

An extra North Star commuter train carrying attendees from the Minnesota Twins baseball game rushes underneath the Saint Anthony Parkway bridge just south of BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, ... (more)

Weekend train approaches New Lenox Station on the Rock Island District.

Back in 2019 work is closing in quick to replace these old Rock Island era signals. A Metra outbound train passes under the classic signals on the Joliet Sub. Signals retired October 2022.

Milwaukee District North Line train #2621 with the Milwaukee heritage MP36 is seen through the former West Side Elevated bride at Paulina Street.

Metra's Milwaukee Road heritage unit shoves North Line train #2614 past Tower A2.

A Metra commuter train passes under a original PRR signal with the city skyline back drop.

In a view from Roosevelt Road overpass, Metra MP36PH-3S No. 402 powers a Metra commuter train at Chicago, Illinois, on April 17, 2009.

On April 17, 2009, Metra MP36PH-3S No. 411 leads a westbound Metra commuter train out of Chicago and is about to pass under Roosevelt Road.

"Don't rip out of here like a bat outta hell." Presumably this is to remind the pilots of Metra trains not to get too hot because of the coming interlockings with CN and BRC.

An outbound MD-West Metra train departs the Roselle, IL Metra station on the Elgin Subdivision.

Metra MP36PH-3S No. 426 leads a westbound Metra commuter train past the tower at Rondout, Illinois, on Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road main line and is clattering over the EJ&E, that just becam... (more)

An outbound Metra rolls west through Franklin Park.