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Does anyone know whether the 409 and 411 have been sent back to Boise yet, or are they still on Metra property awaiting the investigation to conclude on the wreck they were involved in? (I know the estimate on when the investigation was going to be finished was a fairly long time)

I think one of the reasons it's not covered with a board or something is because the type of third rail pickup shoes used on (most) Chicago railcars are different from anywhere else. They use a "gravity" type shoe, which is kind of tall and bulky, to the point where putting a board over th...

They tell people to get off because there are many, many bums who call the CTA home. On two runs (Red line trains terminating at Howard and Blue line trains terminating at Forest Park), the trains are turned on a loop, which evens out wheel wear. Even though the operator doesn't need to leave the ca...

Walk. A decently busy main line is about 80 feet from my house. In fact if I didn't live here I probably would have never gotten into trains in the first place.