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  1. Metra 611

    Metra 611

    Metra 611, a formerly mothballed F40C recently restored to service after Metra's new MP36 units faltered during their first Midwestern winter, waits at Fox Lake, IL to push an inbound commuter on Jan 19, 2005. Current Metra policy calls for stopping and questioning rail photographers, but not...
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    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  2. Metra Westbound

    Metra Westbound

    Metra Milwaukee West Line commuter train behind new MP36 Metra No. 413 picks through the crossovers at the south throat of Chicago Union Station on 12/16/2004.
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    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  3. Metra/Milwaukee Road commuter

    Metra/Milwaukee Road commuter

    Inbound to Union Station from the Milwaukee Road west line. The train is going away from the viewer. The Chicago river is in the background and lower Wacker Drive can be seen if you look real hard.
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  4. Metra - North of CUS

    Metra - North of CUS

    Seen from my sleeper car on the Builder as we left CUS.
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    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  5. LaSalle Street Station

    LaSalle Street Station

    A Metra train waits for passengers at Chicago's LaSalle Street Station.
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  6. California Zephyr

    California Zephyr

    California Zephyr leaving Chicago from the north end of Union Station to get on the CNW for reroute to Omaha during Mississippi River floods. The former CNW E was needed for cab signals.
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Vintage Passenger Train Photos - Diesel Era
  7. Metra Southbound II

    Metra Southbound II

    A Metra commuter train heads for Joliet, Illinois on 7 December 2003.
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    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  8. Metra Southbound

    Metra Southbound

    Taken from the Roosevelt Road Bridge in Chicago. Three photographs stitced together in Photoshop
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  9. Rondout Illinois

    Rondout Illinois

    Metra from Chicago headed thru rondout just after First snowfall at Rondout Illinois Dec 1st 2001
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains



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