THE WEBMASTER IS BUSY. The Tribune's Ends of the Line visits Elgin Big Timber. Photographs are not yet available, perhaps because the Tall Ships and Lollapalooza also have photo series going.

A note about that station name: some people gripe that Metra simply named their relatively new station on the west side of Elgin (which is strategically positioned near a crossing of the Union Pacific line to Belvidere and Rockford as well as a logical jumping off place for Hampshire and Genoa, if DeKalb County ever gets its act together, on the Milwaukee, er, Iowa, Chicago & Eastern) for the nearest mile road, as unlike on much of the Metra system, there was never a station there in the steam era. But there's nothing particularly unrailroady about the station name. Consider Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly) or London Liverpool Street (if only the concourse building at Penn Station could have been "redeveloped" as sensitively) or the New Haven's Route 128.