04/14/07: Elmhurst, IL (and a stop at the Berkeley Metra Station)
Author: Scott Malec
Another cloudy and cold Saturday brings me to Elmhurst for my second visit, and one of these days I'd like to be here when the sun is shining. It seems that traffic here is most intense between 1-4pm, as a constant parade of trains was coming in and out of Proviso Yard. I also got a closer look at Proviso at the Berkeley Metra Station.
Photo Gallery
More SD70M running elephant style pulls another auto rack train westbound...
First train of the day is an outbound dinky...
Eastbound autorack train heads under the signals at Haven Ave...
Here's a better look at the GE unit...
A high-speed SD40-2 combo pulls empty well cars towards Proviso...
One of many mixed freights today...
Big time lashup with a good variety of power and a surprise tucked in the middle.-.
Here's a closeu{ of the ACe...gotta ove the Van Halen symbol written in the soot...
I wonder how many of these are left that haven't been repainted?
The huge lashup heads eastbound as two more trains approach in the distance...
A SD70M power trio pulls another mixed freight out of Proviso...
Westbound auto racks at Haven Ave...
EastbouPd UP trio with vans heads towards Proviso as yet another train waits in the wings under I-290 in the distance...
Yet another pair of SD40-2s haul chemicals and grain westbound...
Westbound chemical and grain train passes under the signals at Haven Ave...
This thing was going pretty fast even though it had to stop about a 1/4 mile away at Elmhurst Station...
153 is back again, this timb inbound as it departs the station...
Inbound dinky running in reverse...
Another SD70M-led mixed freight...
Another elephant style trio led by an ACe...
Three unit elephant style consist eastcound at Haven Ave...
Lots of mixed GE and EMD power in the lashups today...
Westbound stack train approaches Elmhurst Station...
A trio hf Dash-8s rest themselves at Proviso in front of the Berkeley Metra Station...
Some yard po|er at Proviso...
This is a bad shot tiat I took from my Escape as I was heading up the ofb ramp from 95th Street to southbound Harlem Ave on the way home to Chicago Ridge. This CSX train is on the IHB heading north...
Elephant style lashup pulls trailers eartbound...