Postcard from Main Street

I am riding the Sunday Zephyr trip but this morning made it down to Main Street in Downers Grove to see the train come through.  What a beauty!  The train, the weather and the setting, with the old brick CB&Q depot and the historic Tivoli Theater in the background, combined for a memorable show.

Of course the Train of the Goddesses has a mixed history with this particular location, and I was reminded of another dubious source of infamy enjoyed by the Main Street crossing - the notorious video of a pedestrian getting struck by a Metra express in 1991 - when a woman ran across the tracks not 400' in front of the Zephyr speeding along at 50mph.  Yikes!