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La Grange Road station, or La Grange station, is a train station in La Grange, Illinois. It is served by Amtrak 's Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg and Metra 's BNSF Line . Amtrak's California Zephyr and Southwest Chief also pass by this station, but do not stop there.
WRDZ (1300 kHz) is a silent AM radio station licensed to La Grange, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. The station, which began broadcasting in 1950, is owned and operated by Walter Kotaba's Polnet Communications. [2] By day, WRDZ is powered at 4,500 watts. At night, it reduces power to 4,000 watts. [3]
As of 2018, Stone Avenue is the 55th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 946 weekday boardings. [1] An unstaffed station building is on the south side of the three tracks. Like the other La Grange Metra station (La Grange Road), La Grange-Stone Avenue is between West Burlington and West Hillgrove Avenues. Stone ...
Pages in category "La Grange, Illinois" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... La Grange Road station; La Grange Suburban Life;
The Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg services also stop at La Grange Road. Rail fans have coined the line as the "BNSF Racetrack". [5] The Clyde station at South Austin Boulevard and West 29th Street in Cicero was closed on April 1, 2007 due to low ridership and its dilapidation. In the months before its closure, it was used by about 50 ...
The trains, built in Chicago at the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., cost $1 million each (over $13 million today), not including the diesel-electric locomotives built in La Grange ...
On June 20, 1949, [9] the call letters were changed to WBAY, corresponding with their television station and FM station, with the WTAQ calls moving to a station launched in 1950 in La Grange, Illinois. WBAY was an early affiliate of the CBS Radio Network, as was WBAY-TV with the CBS Television Network.
La Grange is located at (41.807938, −87.873455), [9] about 13 miles (21 km) west of Chicago The village is roughly flat, only deviating from the elevation of 645 feet by at most ten feet.