The Kimball Yard is a CTA
rail yard
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of Track (rail transport), tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for k ...
in the
Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest side of
Chicago, Illinois
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, United States, which stores cars for the
Brown Line of the
Chicago Transit Authority
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of public transport, mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and List of Chicago Transit Authority bus routes, CTA bu ...
. Currently,
2600-series and
3200-series railcars are stored here.
It is adjacent to
Kimball station
Kimball is an 'L' station and the terminus of the CTA's Brown Line. It is located in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood. From Kimball, trains run south and then east to , which is about away. During regular hours trains are scheduled to dep ...
. Because of its limited size, some morning rush hour Brown Line trains borrow rolling stock from
Midway Yard, running as a combined service spanning the
Orange Line and Brown Line.
References
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Chicago "L" yards