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METX 182
Title:  METX 182
Description:  That crow's nest really was something else.
Photo Date:  3/27/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:26 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 182(F40PH-2)
Views:  477   Comments: 0
Pumpkins
Title:  Pumpkins
Description:  Even from a young age, I hated orange engines. This was six years ago.
Photo Date:  4/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:23 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  173   Comments: 0
Cab car
Title:  Cab car
Description:  I used to shoot this photo from this location so many times...
Photo Date:  4/6/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:25 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
Another pan shot attempt
Title:  Another pan shot attempt
Description:  I haven't been able to do one this well since... 2001.
Photo Date:  4/6/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:26 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  526   Comments: 0
Metra pan shot
Title:  Metra pan shot
Description:  I used to really love this photo.
Photo Date:  4/7/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:23 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 183(F40PH-2)
Views:  518   Comments: 0
Sideways, or
Title:  Sideways, or
Description:  my first ever attempt at being creative with the camera.
Photo Date:  4/7/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:24 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 183(F40PH-2)
Views:  523   Comments: 1
Just another Metra train
Title:  Just another Metra train
Description:  That plastic bag is boss! Did I just say that?
Photo Date:  4/7/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:25 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 192(F40PHM-2)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
No idea
Title:  No idea
Description:  I know, it's bad.
Photo Date:  4/7/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:27 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  154   Comments: 0
METX 200
Title:  METX 200
Description:  This was one of my first experiences with names on the side of locomotives.
Photo Date:  4/7/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:42 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  414   Comments: 0
Metra CC 799
Title:  Metra CC 799
Description:  I used to think that this was a dramatic shot of Control Car 799 through my yard.
Photo Date:  4/7/2001  Upload Date: 3/9/2004 11:38:14 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  395   Comments: 0
BNSF 2352
Title:  BNSF 2352
Description:  From my old crow's nest. I miss that place.
Photo Date:  4/21/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:21 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  BNSF 2352(GP38-2)
Views:  449   Comments: 0
From the neighbors' yard
Title:  From the neighbors' yard
Description:  It don't look pristine like this no more.
Photo Date:  4/21/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:25 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  128   Comments: 0
BNSF 4255
Title:  BNSF 4255
Description:  A real actual Santa Fe blue and yellow engine? I remember being on my bike.
Photo Date:  4/21/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:43 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4255(B23-7)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
METX 181
Title:  METX 181
Description:  From my old backyard.
Photo Date:  5/1/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:20 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 181(F40PH-2)
Views:  511   Comments: 0
Metras meet
Title:  Metras meet
Description:  Here's something you don't see anymore: a CB&Q cab car leading a train.
Photo Date:  5/1/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:21 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 187(F40PHM-2)
Views:  540   Comments: 0
METX 180
Title:  METX 180
Description:  At the Maple crossing.
Photo Date:  5/1/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:22 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 180(F40PH-2)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
METX 188
Title:  METX 188
Description:  Also in the old back yard.
Photo Date:  5/1/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:22 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 188(F40PHM-2)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
METX 194
Title:  METX 194
Description:  I really loved the power of a digital camera at age 10.
Photo Date:  5/1/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:22 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 194(F40PHM-2)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
Yeah...
Title:  Yeah...
Description:  I was learning the practice of Convergent Railroad Action Photography, which I later forgot.
Photo Date:  5/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:27 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  145   Comments: 0
METX 188
Title:  METX 188
Description:  I loved Maple Ave. crossing when I was 10.
Photo Date:  5/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:28 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 188(F40PHM-2)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
METX 185
Title:  METX 185
Description:  Was it actually a nice day out?
Photo Date:  5/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:29 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 185(F40PHM-2)
Views:  554   Comments: 0
METX 185
Title:  METX 185
Description:  Absolutely terrible.
Photo Date:  5/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:30 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 185(F40PHM-2)
Views:  555   Comments: 0
BN 8025
Title:  BN 8025
Description:  Yay, a real BN, and the engineer waved! I was on top of the world when I shot this photo.
Photo Date:  5/6/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:31 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  BN 8025(SD40-2)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
My first night shot
Title:  My first night shot
Description:  This is, as far as I can tell, the first night photo I ever attempted of a train. Did I do well for a 10-year-old? You tell me.
Photo Date:  5/10/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:42 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  149   Comments: 0
Summer weather and trains
Title:  Summer weather and trains
Description:  Good times, even if the photos really were terrible.
Photo Date:  7/9/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:39 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  172   Comments: 0
Really bad
Title:  Really bad
Description:  This was about when I noticed that the autofocus on this camera was failing badly.
Photo Date:  7/9/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:39 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  135   Comments: 0
This has changed
Title:  This has changed
Description:  The little plank walkway over to the second track? Long gone.
Photo Date:  8/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:44 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  361   Comments: 0
Don't see this anymore
Title:  Don't see this anymore
Description:  Amjack engine in Phase 3? Not no more.
Photo Date:  8/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:44 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  140   Comments: 0
Glint shot attempt
Title:  Glint shot attempt
Description:  One of my first-ever attempts to shoot into the sun.
Photo Date:  8/4/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:45 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
METX 196
Title:  METX 196
Description:  The last of my 40 old digital photos.
Photo Date:  8/5/2001  Upload Date: 4/4/2007 7:48:46 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 196(F40PHM-2)
Views:  427   Comments: 0
Metra 182 at Main Street
Title:  Metra 182 at Main Street
Description:  Metra 182 at Main Street Station on Labor Day 2001.
Photo Date:  9/4/2001  Upload Date: 3/4/2004 6:47:20 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 182(F40PH-2)
Views:  637   Comments: 0
BNSF 5368
Title:  BNSF 5368
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/8/2003  Upload Date: 3/17/2006 11:42:42 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Keith Pokorny
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5368(C44-9W)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
NS 2559
Title:  NS 2559
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/8/2003  Upload Date: 3/17/2006 11:43:17 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Keith Pokorny
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2559(SD70)
Views:  391   Comments: 0
Manifest start up
Title:  Manifest start up
Description:  BNSF 4368 leads two other engines toward Fairview Ave. in Downers Grove. Due to a broken crossing gate, he was at a crawl of 5mph until this point when he put it in run 8 and let it go. The horn was a nice touch to the shot as he began blowing at the beginning of the platform.
Photo Date:  2/8/2004  Upload Date: 3/11/2004 8:05:48 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4368(C44-9W)
Views:  656   Comments: 0
Fast Amtrak
Title:  Fast Amtrak
Description:  Amtrak P42 58 leads the Southwest Chief past Fairview Ave. in Downers Grove at 70mph in a blur.
Photo Date:  2/8/2004  Upload Date: 3/11/2004 8:07:17 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  AMTK 58(P42DC)
Views:  1008   Comments: 0
Amtrak picking up speed
Title:  Amtrak picking up speed
Description:  Amtrak goes by at about 60mph after having to slow down to 15mph for firefighters on the track back at Main Strelt. Someone was burning tires on the tracks. Shot taken at Downers Grove Fairview Ave. station.
Photo Date:  2/8/2004  Upload Date: 3/6/2004 12:11:18 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  AMTK 145(P42DC)
Views:  1602   Comments: 1
Metra MP36 at Fairview Avenue
Title:  Metra MP36 at Fairview Avenue
Description:  Metra MP36 at Fairview Avenue
Photo Date:  2/13/2004  Upload Date: 3/4/2004 11:54:18 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Views:  1448   Comments: 0
BNSF 685 at Fairview Avenue
Title:  BNSF 685 at Fairview Avenue
Description:  685 and Piggybacks at Fairview Avenue
Photo Date:  2/13/2004  Upload Date: 3/4/2004 11:45:46 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  BNSF 885(C40-8W)
Views:  693   Comments: 0
Metra 191 at Fairview
Title:  Metra 191 at Fairview
Description:  Metra 191 at Fairview.
Photo Date:  2/17/2004  Upload Date: 3/4/2004 11:44:14 AM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 191(F40PHM-2)
Views:  710   Comments: 1
Metra MP36
Title:  Metra MP36
Description:  MP36 405 shoves hard out of Main Street.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  690   Comments: 0
Metra F40PHM-2
Title:  Metra F40PHM-2
Description:  Metra 186 pulls into Main Street.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  970   Comments: 1
Metra 200
Title:  Metra 200
Description:  "Shovel Nose" 200 shoves hard out of Main Street. Metra 200 was at Galesburg, Illinois for the annual railroad days in 2001.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  668   Comments: 1
Metra "Shovel Nose"
Title:  Metra "Shovel Nose"
Description:  186 begins to dynamic brake for Main Street.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  590   Comments: 0
Light engine move
Title:  Light engine move
Description:  BNSF 530 and BNSF 7838 go into run 8, for what reason I don't know as they were already going a good speed, at Gilbert Park.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 3/4/2004 7:31:48 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  762   Comments: 0
Amtrak fly by
Title:  Amtrak fly by
Description:  Amtrak blows by at Gilbert Park.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  AMTK 96(P42DC)
Views:  817   Comments: 0
Metra 199
Title:  Metra 199
Description:  Metra "Shovel Nose" 199 pulls hard past Gilbert Park. Notice the engineer forgot to turn off the red marker lights on the engine.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  700   Comments: 1
Amtrak P42
Title:  Amtrak P42
Description:  Amtrak scurrys by Gilbert Park.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  AMTK 87(P42DC)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
Metra 186
Title:  Metra 186
Description:  Once again, Metra "Shovel Nose" 186 pulls past Gilbert Park.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 2/29/2004 12:47:35 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  546   Comments: 0
none
Title:  none
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 3/4/2004 7:31:48 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  284   Comments: 0
Metra 202
Title:  Metra 202
Description:  Scanned photo of Metra 202 going through my yard.
Photo Date:  2/28/2004  Upload Date: 3/4/2004 6:42:50 PM
Location:  Downers Grove, IL
Author:  Tristan Garrett
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Locomotives:  METX 202(F40PHM-2)
Views:  634   Comments: 0

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