Metra Milwaukee District-North Line at Fox Lake, Illinois, Sunday, 10.09.11

Two outbound (northward from Chicago) trains arrive at the terminus of Metra's Milwaukee District North Line in Fox Lake, Illinois. The first train is led by MP36PH-3S #425, which comes through the coach yard and into the depot, unloading its passengers. With Fox Lake itself in the background, the train of 8 cars reverses onto a yard lead. A conductor throws manual switches as the train backs into the coach yard.

MP36PH-3S #414 is on the point of the second train, an express (one of two on Sundays that skips minor stops) from Chicago, into the Fox Lake depot. This area is in the lake-dotted Illinois-Wisconsin border region, at the end of the Fox Lake Branch- this is all former Milwaukee Road trackage, as the sign on the depot attests to. Upon its formation, Metra took the branch over from MILW (along with most of the rest of Chicagoland's commuter trains). One Canadian Pacific local job (very sporadically), and Wisconsin & Southern road freights now use the Fox Lake Branch (at night), which continues northwest of here, owned by W&S outright, to Janesville, Wisconsin. It joins the CP Milwaukee - Chicago main line to the east at Rondout Tower.

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[dwkcamman611]

Very Nice!!!