LaSalle Street Station
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LaSalle Street Station is a commuter rail terminal at 414 South LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago. First used as a rail terminal in 1852, it was a major intercity rail terminal for the New York Centr
Platforms of LaSalle Street Station
The station as it was rebuilt in 1871 (demolished in 1903)
The 20th Century Limited being pulled out of LaSalle Street Station by the Commodore Vanderbilt locomotive
Metra train at LaSalle Street Station
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Metra, officially the Commuter Rail Division of the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, is a commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Northern Illinois Transit Aut
LaSalle Street Station
…rail terminal for the New York Central Railroad until 1968, and for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad until 1978, but now serves only Metra's Rock Island District. The present structure became the fifth station on the site when its predecessor was demolished in 1981 and replaced by the new…
A Metra train at Mundelein station, July 2026
RTA EMD F40PH No. 123 crossing the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois, in 1981
Metra EMD F40C No. 614 in Chicago
Metra purchased used, re-purposed freight locomotives known as the SD70MACH to cost-effectively address its aging fleet