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The Metra Electric District is an electrified commuter rail line owned and operated by Metra which connects Millennium Station, in downtown Chicago, with the city's southern suburbs. As of 2018, it is
A train at 93rd Street/South Chicago station
An Illinois Central train at Richton Park in 1968
Turnstiles in use at a station on the line, circa 1970s
Monroe Street, to the south of which (lower left) the Metra tracks emerge from the tunnel into Millennium 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
Metra Electric District
…The Metra Electric District (MED or ME) is an electrified commuter rail line owned and operated by Metra which connects Millennium Station (formerly Randolph Street Station), in downtown Chicago, with the city's southern suburbs. As of 2018, it is the fifth…
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