Joseph T. Wagner
Don't Look Her in the Eyes...
... Or she'll too turn you to stone. An iconic and classy fixture along BNSF's Chicago Sub, the early 20th century, CB&Q erected stone arches of Metra's La Grange-Stone Ave station stand with prominence as they compose themselves alongside the passage of one of the many daily train movements that grace the rails of this busy triple-tracked passenger and freight artery nicknamed the "Racetrack." A Sunday H BRCKCK1 11A, otherwise referred to as the "Brick Kick," 92-cars of junk freight from the Belt at Clearing, slips and slides westward past the empty weekend platform with a wet, 5700 foot of train for Kansas City-Argentine as on-going bouts of precipitation fall from the dreary skies above, heavily dampening the Chicagoland 'burbs. Leaving the BRC behind at Cicero for home rails, the train has about 24 miles yet to travel before it splits at Aurora and turns down the Mendota Sub for its run to Galesburg.
Don't Look Her in the Eyes...
... Or she'll too turn you to stone. An iconic and classy fixture along BNSF's Chicago Sub, the early 20th century, CB&Q erected stone arches of Metra's La Grange-Stone Ave station stand with prominence as they compose themselves alongside the passage of one of the many daily train movements that grace the rails of this busy triple-tracked passenger and freight artery nicknamed the "Racetrack." A Sunday H BRCKCK1 11A, otherwise referred to as the "Brick Kick," 92-cars of junk freight from the Belt at Clearing, slips and slides westward past the empty weekend platform with a wet, 5700 foot of train for Kansas City-Argentine as on-going bouts of precipitation fall from the dreary skies above, heavily dampening the Chicagoland 'burbs. Leaving the BRC behind at Cicero for home rails, the train has about 24 miles yet to travel before it splits at Aurora and turns down the Mendota Sub for its run to Galesburg.