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Metra 518 & 508 meet at Western Avenue. These newer SD70MACh's have nearly completely taken over the power pool at WACY.

METX 500 leads outbound Metra train 2615 at CP Morgan headed up toward Fox Lake. This trainset was decorated with Christmas lights as part of Metra's Holiday Train program. A PRR signal bridge still remains despite having modern color lights.

I sure was happy to see this for my first time. These newer Metra EMDs look mean. Here's one sitting alone waiting on its next assignment in the Chicago suburbs

Metra inbound 59 pulls into Glen Ellyn towards the end of rush hour making a quick station stop.

This is a Metra outbound arriving

ET&WNC 12 & WP&Y 190 doublehead and put on a show during Tweetsie's Annual Heritage Weekend. The two locomotives would doublehead till halfway through the day, when 12 would be taken off and put on a small 2 car mixed train

Due to the wildfires that we're raging in Canada at the time, Almost the entire US was covered in a hazy fog. I decided to venture out on June 27th, unaware of the haziness that was over the state of Illinois. Metra 211 is seen trailing on an Inbound from Aurora, only beginning the trek towards Chicago.

A recently delivered Metra MACH sits outside of the EMD facility in McCook, IL. This Metra MACH should be put into service sometime in 2024 / 2025. This will definitely be a new future and generation for Metra. Built as KCS (Kansas City Southern) SD70MAC #3965, this locomotive went under a huge overhaul at Patterson, Georgia progress rail shops.

Metra #10 heads north after switching tracks around the Metra Blue Island depot.

METX 180 "Village of Bensenville" serves at the back of a Metra commuter train on the BNSF "Racetrack"

A SB Metra train on the Rock Island departing Chicago passing by the old 16th Street Tower.

A weekend extra move on the CCET's former N&W Peavine Line rolls eastbound in the small community of Perintown behind both of the railroad's attractively painted EMD GP15's.

Running long hood forward like trains on this line commonly did back in N&W and early NS days, CCET GP15-1 No. 1657 and SD40-2 No. 3512 lead a 53 car eastbound freight over the East Fork of the Little Miami River in Batavia on a warm Fall morning.

The first revenue stone train for the Cincinnati Eastern out of the quarry at Plum Run departs the quarry, passing the out of service N&W CPL's that still stand guard on the Peavine.

The CCET's pair of GP15's roll the first revenue stone train out of the quarry at the east end of the CCET's trackage on the old N&W Peavine Route at Plum Run westbound through the small town of Williamsburg, Ohio.

CCET 1686 leads a short eastbound stone train unloading at the Hanson Aggregates facility along Roundbottom Road in Milford.

A pair of Metra F40PH-3's lead outbound commuter trains west through Chicago Illinois on the former Milwaukee Road. The vibrant orange sky was due to heavy haze and smoke from wildfires being trapped by a temperature inversion.

On a cold night in Owosso, Michigan, Pere Marquette 1225 (aka the polar express) gets ready to depart the Steam Railroading Institute's Owosso shops for a Trip to Ashley, Michigan where the train would stop and head back with an LTEX F40PH leading the way back.

Metra F59PHI #90 in CNW paint leads Metra F40PH-3 #104 in City Of Chicago paint on the AARPCO special as it makes its rounds around Chicagoland