Metra boosting weekend service on BNSF Line Publication Date Thursday, Body Just in time for summer fun, Metra is significantly boosting weekend service on the BNSF Line, adding trains on Saturdays and even more on Sundays to create the same schedule for both weekend days. There wi...
Metra will monitor customer feedback and operations and make future schedule adjustments as necessary. Milwaukee District North The new schedule will increase service on the line to 52 trains from 38 trains. It will: Increase midday service to hourly Add a rush-hour trip to increase capacity Improve reverse-commute service Improve late evening ...
A Metra MD-W train struck a snow plow near the Bartlett station around 8:30 a.m., halting service in both directions and causing major delays. Officials have not said what led to the crash or whether ...
Heritage Corridor (HC) to Joliet Printable schedule Metra Electric (ME) to University Park Printable schedule Milwaukee District North (MD-N)
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Metra repurchasing five 1950's bi-levels for UP North By jesi2282 in Metra Commuter Rail
Metra Electric South Shore Track 4 Expansion By renardo870 in Metra Commuter Rail
The earliest CNW painted bi-level cars were from 1955 (CNW 1-16 became Metra 7600-7606, 7900/1, 7607-7613). non of these batches remain with Metra. Only 292 of 674 cars are less than 50 years old.
an update of the Metra Electric route. I have done a lot of work on the equipment that will ultimately come with the route. here is a partially completed South Shore Line train.
Metra bought the wrong type of equipment for regional service including old frieght engines and the new cars on order. Sure they ran in service doesnt mean its the best use of equipment.
Monday, Metra will close the 147th Street/Sibley Boulevard Station in Harvey beginning May 16 as the agency undertakes a complete redo of the station that will replace the platforms and add an elevator to make the station accessible to people with disabilities. The station is expec...
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A Metra number on a former C&NW car would have been 87xx, if a cab car. It wasn't a cab car, it was the second car behind the engine. I rode it on Tuesday. It also didn't have the old flip over C&NW seats that had a metal back & upholstery on just one side, but the current seats that just flip back & forth with upholstery on both sides.
EDGEBROOK, Ill. (WGN) — Milwaukee District North (MD-N) inbound and outbound Metra trains were halted near Edgebrook Monday evening after a train struck a pedestrian. Metra issued an alert about the ...
Metra car number is 8718 - that car came back as part of a group of 6 sometime in 2014 and has been in service on the UP lines since returning. Not sure if VRE or Metra is responsible for the seat swap.
RTAMS has a Metra Ridership by Station - Boarding & Alighting Survey (1979-2018). Melrose Park had about 86 boardings and 107 alightings in 2018; River Forest 448/441; Maywood 87/69. Compare to Oak Park 991/1106; Elmhurst 2540/2347; Lombard 1502/1472. So, if the aim were anything other than rebuilding ridership, Maywood and Melrose Park wouldn't be worth the 4 minute delay per stop. By ...
The Chicago Tribune recently published an article explaining that Metra has some issues collecting ALL fares. I do agree that this is a problem, I was in Wicker Park last week and I hopped on the Blue Line at Damen to transfer to the UP-NW Line at Jefferson Park. I had my ticket prepared for my t...
Metra 7793-7796 and 8745 were among the cars that were shipped west circa June 2004. I think the original concept at UTA was to have these cars operating in the same consist as the new Bombardier-built double-deckers.
Equipment in the Milw/NCS and HC pools are maintained by Metra at Western Ave (assuming previously a Milwaukee Road facility but don't know for sure). If you see a trainset oriented "backwards" north of Union Station, it's a HC trainset heading to or from Western Ave.
Metra ex CNW bilevels - Page 3 - Metra Commuter Rail - Chicago Transit ...
Sun-Times commentary on this topic: "Metra 'boondoggle' is textbook case of mismanaging taxpayer money Metra is blowing tens of millions of dollars, with terrible oversight, on a warehouse in Harvey it bought in 2020. This is why transit agency reforms are a must." Mostly it quotes the ABC7 report posted a te top of this topic, but Rich Miller adds: "The thing that just completely blew my mind ...
It does appear WSMTD is gone. Explains BNSF cars on Orland trains and original Metra cars on BNSF if now straight Metra owned. I know that originally, the Burlington required much stronger frames & anti-telescoping structures on its commuter coaches than the rest of the local RRs running bilevel commuter trains.
Metra Budd cars 04/16 - Metra Commuter Rail - Chicago Transit Forum
Looking around the Board meeting minutes, I came across a reference that the following RFP was "on the street": While I didn't log into the business portal, it appears from the above that Metra is investigating putting battery electric trains on the Rock Island District. We discussed way back a s...
Chicago Sun-Times: Person fatally struck by Metra train near Geneva station causes extensive delays
Person fatally struck by Metra train near Geneva station causes extensive delays
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