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The song "CTA X-mas Train", [4] describing the Holiday Train, by the Snow Angels was the winner of the Chicago Tribune's New Holiday Classics Christmas song contest in 2009. [5] It narrowly avoided being shut down by CTA president Frank Kruesi after the budget cuts of 2004. A spokesman said, "It didn't seem appropriate to devote resources to ...
On February 21, 1993, the CTA color coded its lines, and the Ravenswood Line was officially renamed the Brown Line. Ridership on the Ravenswood Branch increased from 8.1 million passengers per year in 1987 to 10.6 million in 1998, largely due to an increase in population of the neighborhoods served by the branch.
The 3200-series were designed for one-person train operation, making the Orange Line the second Chicago "L" line to open with one-person operation, after the Skokie Swift (today's Yellow Line). The 3200-series cars in Midway Yard's fleet were refurbished in the mid-2010s at the Skokie Shops .
The last Southwest Service train will depart downtown at 12:42 a.m. New Year’s Day, Jan. 1: All lines will be operating Sunday schedules. There will be no service on the Heritage Corridor, North ...
The CTA Holiday Train is decorated and assembled at the Skokie Shops. The Holiday Train features a custom-built sleigh for Santa Claus, which rides on a flatcar in the middle of the train as it travels around the "L" system. Preparation work for the train takes approximately three months, supported by Skokie Shops staff and CTA employee ...
The South Side Elevated is a branch of the Chicago "L" system in Chicago, Illinois that is served by the Green Line.It has on average 12,509 passengers, counting branch divisions, boarding each weekday as of February 2013, according to the Chicago Transit Authority. [1]
It is the third-busiest 'L' route, with an average of 33,302 passengers boarding each weekday in 2023. [2] Before CTA lines were color-coded in 1993, the Brown Line was known as the Ravenswood Route; specifically, the series of stations from Belmont to Kimball were called the Ravenswood branch. Accordingly, the Kimball-Belmont shuttle service ...
On Tuesday, Nov. 26 the train made several New York stops in Fort Edward, Rouses Point Junction, Plattsburgh and Port Henry, as well Franklin Park, Illinois, according to the 2024 U.S. schedule.