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With an average weekday ridership of 294,600 in 2015, Metra is the fourth-busiest commuter rail system in the United States, only behind New York City metropolitan area systems. [1] [2] The Metra system has a total of 243 active stations spread out on 11 rail lines with 487.5 miles (784.6 km) of tracks.
Mount Prospect is a station on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line located in Mount Prospect, Illinois. The station is located at 13 E. Northwest Highway near its intersection with Main St. (Illinois Route 83). Mount Prospect is 20.0 miles (32.2 km) from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the Northwest Line's southern terminus. [2]
Metra (reporting mark METX) is the primary commuter rail system [a] in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads.
After leaving Cincinnati, the train crosses into Kentucky, where it follows the Ohio River on the southern border of Ohio to Ashland, Kentucky. The Kentucky and West Virginia stations of Maysville , South Shore–South Portsmouth , Ashland , and Huntington are on Ohio's state border; the South Portsmouth–South Shore station primarily serves ...
Arlington Heights is one of two commuter railroad stations along Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line in the village of Arlington Heights, Illinois.The station is located at 45 West Northwest Highway (), between Vail and Dunton Avenues, and lies 22.9 miles (36.9 km) from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and 40.3 miles (64.9 km) from Harvard. [2]
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.
The station is 32.0 miles (51.5 km) away from Chicago Union Station, the southern terminus of the line. [3] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Buffalo Grove is in zone 4. As of 2018, Buffalo Grove is the 76th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 695 weekday boardings.
The station is 15.4 miles (24.8 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line. [2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Western Springs is in zone 3. As of 2018, Western Springs is the 38th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,134 weekday boardings. [1] There is a staffed station building.