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Metra Commuter Rail history
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The first railroad in Chicago was the Galena & Chicago Union, which was chartered in 1836 to build tracks to the lead mines at Galena in northwestern Illinois.
The first tracks were laid in 1848, and then not to Galena but to a point known as Oak Ridge (now Oak Park ). The Galena & Chicago Union's terminal stood near the corner of Canal and Kinzie Streets.
To keep the system running, voters in the six-county Chicago area created the Regional Transportation Authority in 1974.
The last N&W equipped train ran on 7/27/1979 with Metra equipment at F40PH starting on 7/30/1979.
According to Metra, 1982.
It created the Northeast Illinois Commuter Rail Corporation to operate those lines in 1982.
The RTA was reorganized by Springfield in 1983, and a commuter rail division was created to oversee commuter rail operations.
The Commuter Rail Division, which held its first meeting in June 1984, operated the Rock Island line and the two Milwaukee lines directly.
Metra is the label we’ve been putting on commuter rail service in the Chicago area since 1984.
Metra bought the Illinois Central Gulf’s electrified commuter line in 1987 and started operating it directly as the Metra Electric Line.
Metra took over direct operation of the SWS in 1993.
That same year it also assumed ownership of the Milwaukee lines. It took over operations on the Norfolk Southern line in 1993 and renamed it the SouthWest Service.
By 1999, it was one of the largest commuter railroad networks in the world.
See 70 ILCS 3615/2.20(a)(xii), 3B.01, 3B.02 (West 2000). Defendants' brief states that “[t]he CRD/NIRCRC are known to the public through the service mark ‘Metra.’ ”
By andrethebusman, January 8, 2017 in Metra Commuter Rail
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