Showing posts with label METRA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label METRA. Show all posts
Sunday, February 2, 2025

METRA's 16TH ST Tower to Close, Following CY

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I just got word that METRA's famed 16TH ST Interlocking tower at the triple crossing of the Alton (CNIC), Saint Charles Air Line and th...
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Sunday, February 11, 2024

METRA Confronts Sticky Speeds

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METRA recently announced that they were looking to raise speeds on its electric division from the current 65mph to 80 or even 90mph. Typica...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

New Signals at RONDOUT Tower

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Way back in 2005 METRA's RONDOUT Tower was closed, however because it was a relay plant with a US&S unit lever machine, RONDOUT int...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

GRESHAM JCT's Sequence Switches Explained

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 Years ago I wrote up a profile of METRA's GRESHAM JUNCTION tower on the Rock Island division south of Chicago.  Not only had GRESHAM J...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Signs! Signs! Everywhere a Sign! - Western Passenger Roads

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 It's been a while since my post on Western Freight Railroads , that that's due to the unfortunate situation that many of the commut...
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Sunday, July 26, 2020

Chicagoland CNW ATS Retired

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The Intermittent inductive automatic train stop system in service on two former Chicago Northwestern commuter lines was taken out of servic...
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Monday, September 2, 2019

METRA Western Ave (Tower A-2) Position Lights Removed

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Seeing as how I reported on the removal of the position lights at Racine (aka CP-MORGAN) in April of 2018, I might be a little late to the ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

CN Cripples Chicago 16th St / 21st St Corridor

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In a move that could only make sense as part of some nefarious plan to cripple Amtrak service, Canadian National has single tracked a critic...
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Sunday, December 2, 2018

Caught on Camera: ATS Ding

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Intermittent Inductive Automatic Train Stop (ATS) was that thing that met the minimum safety requirements for high speed rail as laid down ...
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Monday, April 30, 2018

Racine PLs Removed! A Chicago Icon is No More

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Well the famous "Racine" position light signals inbound towards the north end of Chicago Union Station were suddenly replaced last...
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Monday, February 12, 2018

PTC Assimilates METRA Beverly and Fox Lake Branches

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PTC is in the news after that CSX wreck and it came to my attention that, as one might expect, METRA's solution to some of more oddball ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

METRA Cab Ride Videos Courtesy METRA

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The METRA commuter rail network has been seeing a lot of re-signaling as of late, but there is still a lot of interesting stuff out there li...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Well, There's a New One

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Last week, while on a field trip to Chicago, I encountered a new Class 1 railroad signal indication I was hitherto unaware of.  Approaching ...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Chicago 75th Street, Western Ave and MO Videos

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Not sure how I missed these gems.  Both of these videos have been on Youtube for a number of months and I am just getting to them now. The f...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Updates!

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Alright, I have an fairly major update of my METRA BLUE ISLAND Tower page to announce.  I had an opportunity to visit Blue Island in Decem...
Monday, January 11, 2016

METRA TOWER A-5 (Pacific Jct) Closed

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Again this is a bit late, but I recently confirmed that METRA's famous Tower A-5 was closed, effective November, 17th, 2015.  This is t...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Caught on Camera - Episode 7: Restricting

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Ah Restricting, not the rarest of signal indications, but definitely special in certain circumstances, especially in the now vanishing insta...
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