Metra on Monday acknowledged the confusion and began a public outreach effort that could potentially rename all of its lines ...

Metra is inviting the public to weigh in on a potential overhaul of its train line names, a move aimed at making the system more user-friendly for new and occasional riders.

Metra has been hiring many of UP’s workers and this spring will begin to directly run the service. “Union Pacific” will be phased out of line names. “Renaming the three UP lines presents ...

The inbound Union Pacific North Line train at the Davis Street Metra station in 2024. Thirty years after the Metra line that ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra is phasing out the names for some of its lines, and wants to hear from its riders. The commuter rail is phasing out the Union Pacific North, Northwest and West lines. Some new ...

Meantime, service was halted for more than two hours Tuesday morning on the Union Pacific West line, after a freight train that uses the same stretch of tracks hit a pedestrian near the Metra ...

A Metra train arrives at the LaSalle Street Metra Station. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Metra deserves credit for thinking about renaming each of its 14 commuter rail lines in a bid to help ...

WINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Metra Union Pacific West Line trains were disrupted after a pedestrian was struck by a train Tuesday morning. The incident occurred near the Winfield Station. A Metra ...

The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. where the Metra Electric line crosses 87 th Street in South Chicago, according to a Metra spokesperson. The conditions of the three people who were ...