Is the time ripe for high-speed passenger rail service between Chicago and St. Louis? Rich Samuels takes us for a ride as our "Chicago Matters" series continues.
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It’s 4:15 and just 15 min of sunlight remain in the day. Here is the action as seen from the Harley Road overpass over Union Pacific's Geneva Sub. 4:15 Metra 505 (outbound) 4:24 Metra 510 (Inbound) 4:25 UP Manifest (Westbound) ... Union Pacific UP Metra Good Engineer Horn Show Freight Passenger T...
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normal track, but the inbound Metra has to board on the street off of Track 2, so a UP Intermodal approaching from the east has to proceed westbound on Track 3. UP has a practice of running trains on the left-hand side, so this is a rare occurance of a UP train running on the right-hand side. Me...
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11:09 AM/11:18 AM We make a stop at Lombard, and continue on our way. At 11:18 AM, we pass another Metra train heading westbound. You can hear its Nathan P5a horn sound, and our K5LA answers it. I have always wanted to hear a Nathan P5a on a Metra unit! Recorded 8.1.2009
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EXCITED TO SEE MY FIRST MP36. GAVE ME A SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT TOO! 1ST TRAIN: METRA 427 EAST 2ND TRAIN: METRA 413 ... METRA SPAULDING JUNCTION MP36 SHAVE AND HAIRCUT
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ROAD:Canal st WHERE:Chicago IL BELLS:Two hybrids,two safetran m-bells TRAIN:Metra com. train OTHER INFO:this line see more than 170 trains aday!!!!!!also one of the m-bells used to be a wch-ebell
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