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- Delivery and Updates - Metra Commuter Rail - Chicago Transit Forum
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 Will they run the fate as airbus A380 or long Island RR engines which were mothballed or the electric engines Amtrak retires based on the Acela
- New State-Of-The-Art Railcars - Metra Commuter Rail - Chicago Transit Forum
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 All 187 operating cab cars are from 1994-2005 giving a total of 861 cars
- Metra into Sugar Grove - Chicago Transit Forum
The village's $185 million vision for Metra service includes 10 miles of new train tracks and stations at Gordon Road, Municipal Drive and Dugan Road A project new to this year's list is the Orchard Gateway, a road that would span from Route 47 east to Orchard Road
- Forums - Chicago Transit Forum
Discuss Metra's commuter rail service in this forum 5k posts Metra taking over UP operations?
- Metra Electric South Shore Track 4 Expansion
You can look throughout the South Shore site Essentially NICTD gets is own platform at Van Buren St and a 2 track clear shot into its berths at Millennium Station
- Renaming Metra Lines - Metra Commuter Rail - Chicago Transit Forum
I personally like Metra Electric, but in keeping with the pattern, you can have Millennium South Chicago, Millennium Main Lune, and Millennium Blue Island as well as Millennium Kensington Local I like the idea - but with a number and the destination intact with the origin station, with Joliet being an exception (below)
- Metra Service Expansion 2024 - Chicago Transit Forum
Metra will be adding six trains to the BNSF Line’s Saturday schedule and 16 trains to the line’s Sunday schedule The changes will result in the same level of service on both weekend days, with inbound hourly service from 5 a m to noon and from 2 p m to 7 p m and outbound hourly service from 10 a m to midnight
- Metra Train Tracker - Metra Commuter Rail - Chicago Transit Forum
Metra has unveiled a major new enhancement to its website with the debut of the new “Rail-Time Tracker” feature The feature, available on both the desktop and mobile Metra websites, allows riders to check the status of the next trains at every station on the Metra system
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