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Midway Yard (Chicago)
The Midway Yard is a rail yard on the Southwest side of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois which stores cars for the Orange Line (CTA), Orange Line of the Chicago Transit Authority. It is adjacent to Midway station (CTA), Midway station, the southwestern terminus of the Orange Line. In addition to Orange Line operations, Midway Yard operates a small number of rush-hour Brown Line (CTA), Brown Line trips. Midway Yard was constructed as part of the Orange Line project, and opened in 1993. Location Midway Yard is located in the Garfield Ridge, Chicago, Garfield Ridge community area of Chicago, immediately east of Midway International Airport. The Orange Line's southwestern terminus, Midway Airport station, is located south of the yard. Midway Yard and the adjacent Midway Airport station are laid out to allow a southward extension of the Orange Line to Ford City Mall. Planning work on the extension began in 2006 and continued until 2010, but the extension was never built. History The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago "L"
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated railway, elevated") is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at long as of 2014, and List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership, the third-busiest rapid transit system in the United States after the New York City Subway and the Washington Metro. As of January 2024, the "L" had 1,480 rail cars operating across eight different routes on 224.1 miles of track. CTA trains make about 1,888 trips each day servicing 146 train stations. In , the system had rides, or about per weekday in . The "L" provides 24-hour service on the Red and Blue Lines, making Chicago, New York City, and Copenhagen Metro, Copenhagen the only three cities in the world to offer 24-hour train service on some of their lines throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
