Metra commuter train prepares to depart from Harvard Illinois. June 1996.

Metra commuter train prepares to depart from Harvard Illinois. June 1996., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

I took this photograph during a one day visit to the northern Illinois town of Harvard Illinois via Metra.

I had just disembarked from this Metra commuter train seen in the photograph at the end of the line in Harvard Illinois. The Metra uniformed conductor had just thrown the track switch, and now the train is slowly backing up. Soon the conductor will board, and the comuter train will be heading to the coach storage yard in Woodstock Illinois.

It would be at least 3 hours or so before the next Metra local enroute to Chicago will arrive in Harvard, so I made an afternoon of walking the main and side streets of Harvard on this beautiful sunny and hot summer day.

Thanks.
Eddie K.