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Lake States Transit > Chicago > Commuter > Metra > Metra Electric
93rd Street (South Chicago Branch)

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Metra Electric

Year Opened # of Tracks 2
Rail Transfers
Platform Layout Island Platform Park-n-Ride No
City Chicago Right of Way Private
Point of Interest

The South Chicago branch leaves the mainline south of the 63rd St station.  The junction is a fly-under so there is no cross train traffic here. This line runs down the middle of busy streets before ending at 93rd St. I could see this line being more a Light Rail line than a commuter electric. I understand at one time this line has trains every 10 minutes.

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chi-cr-metraE-93-042305-01.jpg (70714 bytes)Train at 93rd St. (4/23/05) chi-cr-metraE-93-042305-03.jpg (60711 bytes)Entrance to the 93rd St terminal (4/23/05)
chi-cr-metraE-SChic-042305-04.jpg (58446 bytes)View from the train of the right-of-way in a street median. (4/23/05) chi-cr-metraE-93-042305-04.jpg (60854 bytes)Street view of a Highliner train at 93rd. (4/23/05)
chi-cr-metraE-SChic-042305-03.jpg (57919 bytes)Looks like the remnants of an old yard near 93rd St. (4/23/05) chi-cr-metraE-SChic-042305-02.jpg (54140 bytes)Another right-of-way view. (4/23/05)
Waiting for departure (4/23/05)  

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