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New Start/West Lake Route
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Are there any locos anywhere still in RTA paint?
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Explain... (ex-CNW F7 in NIRC paint)
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What a ride...
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Brass Line Car on Ebay
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Smile, you're on Candid Camera
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Slow Zones Map
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Orange Line derailment in Loop - 12/19
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MDW 2237: 10 cars?
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Next stop: Advertising...
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Pink line permanent?
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Uh... what happened to the flat-sided coaches?
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Info from our Metra experts please- Summit
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Powder River coal trains & Metra.
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Weird day in the Loop.
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Please help! I need F40C Info! ASAP!
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Trains Magazine article...
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Shots fired at OTC - UP Service suspended
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Holiday Trains
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MDW/NCS schedules: More changes needed?
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Ticket Color
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Changes at Aurora Transportation Center, Route 59
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SWS/HC downtown terminal relocations...
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RDC use in SB
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Give 'em credit for trying...
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new trainsets.
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CTA Airport Express
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2600 Series
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Wed Before & Fri After Thanksgiving
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Get ready for a bumpy ride...
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A CTA Map for 2055?
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Slow Zones Not going away
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BNSF Coaches
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So, are Metra's F40Cs in a scrap yard, museum, or what?
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Where does Metra keep their last two F40Cs?
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Rip Track building
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Train Derailment!
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Delays on CTA's Red Line
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New Paint Scheme for SouthShore Freight
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discontinued flagstops
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change in power in Congress -- effect on CTA?
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CSS avatars
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Coming soon: ETMS...
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South Shore web update
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Arlington & Fairfax Railbus
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Congressman Mark Kirk meet and greet at Ogilvie
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Santa Safety Trains
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Deepest Subway Station
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800-series
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Randolph er, Millenium Station
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Metra weekend and holiday schedules?
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UP temporary freight reroutes on Milwaukee West...
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Metra/CTA connection question
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Trivia Questions...
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red line skip-stop suggestion
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Recently applied for conductor
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Green Pullmans
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Turntable on the SS?
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CTA/Metra connection question
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today's a bad day for CTA
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Joliet Union Station
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RID's New Speed Limit Signs...
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Retired H1's
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light rail
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Trainsets
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Passenger Privatization
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Neat CTA testing photo
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Metra dispatching.
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RTA Moving Beyond Congestion Community Workshops
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Photos Page
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CSS Videos
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policing railroad crossings
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RAILROAD.NET: Looking for ELECTRIC photos!
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UP-NW 2004 Schedule change: Less is more?
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Metra officer shot @ Harvey
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CSS diesels
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CLS&SB 73
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Metra's Bikes on Trains Program
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What is or was the Chicago NSMTD railroad?
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cta track guage
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x1150
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Circle Line News 9/25/06
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I wanna know about how many cars connects on listed trains.
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RAILROAD.NET: New Metra feature...
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The rebirth of CNW F7 411...
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How many cars on BN
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Business train w/dome under wire.
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New Start Project - NCS
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Metra ridership at an all time high...
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Starline EJ&E Test Train
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Blue Island-Vermont St.
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ME: Why not extend Metra Electric to Kankakee?
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Destination Sign Curtins
by F40CFan  - 
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Pipe bomb explodes at Metra station - 9/1
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What happened to NYC's suburban services?
by Otto Vondrak  - 
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What Causes Delays To SS Trains?
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Retired bilevel
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Neato photos (F40C guys - pay heed)
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