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The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (reporting mark CNSM), also known as the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service over an 88.9-mile (143.1 km) route between the Chicago Loop and downtown Milwaukee, as well as an 8.6-mile (13.8 km) branch line between the villages of Lake Bluff and Mundelein, Illinois.
The Milwaukee District North Line (MD-N) is a Metra commuter rail line in Chicago, Illinois and its northern suburbs, running from Union Station to Fox Lake.Although Metra does not refer to any of its lines by color, the timetable accents for the Milwaukee District North line are pale "Hiawatha Orange" in honor of the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha passenger trains.
It is the only Metra line that travels outside Illinois. Metra does not refer to its lines by particular colors, but the timetable accents for the Union Pacific North line are dark "Flambeau Green," a nod to the C&NW's Flambeau 400 passenger train. [4] Until 2022, a private club car ran weekdays exclusively on the Union Pacific North Line. It ...
A portion of the North Shore Line was rehabilitated, and the Arlington Yard was expanded. [49] Soon after service restarted on the line, Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially commemorated the reactivation on April 17, 2007. [50] Along the remainder of the North Shore Branch, there are still tracks and rail overpasses in some places. [4] [5]
The Newburyport/Rockport Line is a branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running northeast from downtown Boston, Massachusetts towards Cape Ann and the Merrimack Valley, serving the North Shore. The first leg, operating via the Eastern Route of the former Boston and Maine Railroad, serves Chelsea, Lynn, Swampscott, Salem, and Beverly.
Church Street was an interurban station on the North Shore Line between 1899 and 1955 in downtown Evanston, Illinois.Originally opened as the railroad's southernmost terminal, the station was the city's principal stop and was sometimes referred to as Evanston, despite trains serving three more stops in the city.
The former North Shore Line entrance on the north side of Howard Street has been preserved and restored to use, now as an auxiliary exit Howard station during reconstruction in August 2007. In the foreground are the wooden platforms and canopies dating from 1921; in the background new concrete platforms are under construction.
The North Shore Line ceased operating in early 1963, but the CTA instated a new service the following year which served a "temporary" station on the same location. This service was, and to some extent still is, known as the Skokie Swift, and is currently called the Yellow Line. The current stationhouse has been in place since 1994.