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Title:
Metra Milwaukee Dist. North Line, Chicago to Grayslake
Description:
For those of you who commute on this route every day, take a look at it through the eyes of a city boy riding it for the first time. As usual, I'm looking for the urban and suburban grit: The faded factories, the railroad bridges minus their tracks, rooftop water tanks, grass-covered landfills, yards full of school buses and scrap metal, residual floodwaters from last month's torrential rains, a Lexus LS400 that's seen better days, and, just south of Grayslake, a mountain of gravel. An observation: Commuter station parking lots are a sea of black and metallic silver, pewter, gray-green, blue-gray, beige, and gunmetal gray, broken by the occasional maroon and pearl white. Even the sports cars. Come on, folks! Go crazy! Red! Yellow! Lime green! Live a little! Finally, at the end of my journey, I encounter an age-old problem for train (and plane and bus) travelers;-)
Author:
artistmac
Tags:
Chicago, Grayslake, Milwaukee, Metra, North, landfill,
Metra Milwaukee Dist. North Line, Chicago to Grayslake
Description:
For those of you who commute on this route every day, take a look at it through the eyes of a city boy riding it for the first time. As usual, I'm looking for the urban and suburban grit: The faded factories, the railroad bridges minus their tracks, rooftop water tanks, grass-covered landfills, yards full of school buses and scrap metal, residual floodwaters from last month's torrential rains, a Lexus LS400 that's seen better days, and, just south of Grayslake, a mountain of gravel. An observation: Commuter station parking lots are a sea of black and metallic silver, pewter, gray-green, blue-gray, beige, and gunmetal gray, broken by the occasional maroon and pearl white. Even the sports cars. Come on, folks! Go crazy! Red! Yellow! Lime green! Live a little! Finally, at the end of my journey, I encounter an age-old problem for train (and plane and bus) travelers;-)
Author:
artistmac
Tags:
Chicago, Grayslake, Milwaukee, Metra, North, landfill,
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