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A Cottage Grove-bound Green Line train of 5000-series cars approaching the Roosevelt station. The Green Line is a rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system. It is the only completely elevated route in the "L" system. All other routes may have various combinations ...
The Cardinal is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York Penn Station and Chicago Union Station via Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, Charleston, Huntington, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. Along with the Capitol Limited and Lake Shore Limited, it is one of three trains linking the Northeast and Chicago.
Atlantic Coast Line Express 1896 — 1903 ... Chicago, IL — Cincinnati, OH renamed train #12; D-E ... Chicago & Cincinnati Express 1889 — 1891
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (reporting mark GTW) was an American subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway, later of the Canadian National Railway (reporting mark CN) operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Since a corporate restructuring in 1971, the railroad has been under CN's ...
[49] The Mercury trains operated at speeds up to 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) throughout their service career. [50] The Cincinnati Mercury was the first to fall as rail service contracted, eliminated in October 1957. [37] The Chicago Mercury was eliminated in April 1958. [31] The Cleveland Mercury was discontinued on July 11, 1959.
63rd Street station is a commuter rail station within the city of Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island, and the Chicago neighborhood of South Chicago and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana. Most South Shore Line trains do not stop at this station ...
The Chicago Hub Network is a collection of proposed fast conventional and high-speed rail lines in the Midwestern United States including 3,000 miles (5,000 km) of track. Since the 1990s, there have been multiple proposals to build a network from Chicago to destinations such as Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Kansas City ...
The Loop (historically Union Loop) is the 1.79-mile-long (2.88 km) circuit of elevated rail that forms the hub of the Chicago "L" system in the United States. As of April 2024, the branch served 40,341 passengers on an average weekday. [2] The Loop is so named because the elevated tracks loop around a rectangle formed by Lake Street (north side ...