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1002 is now an instruction bus

I'm extremely late, but these forums are delayed enough. There are 3 eight car 2600's sitting ontop of 61st waiting to be salvaged and then scrapped. Only units I know are 2819-20, and 2993-94. All blue line.

Nah I didn't get one when i drove past it after I got off

got a pic?

1653 is at C sitting in the back where they put maintenance buses at behind the shop

2025: Sun June 15

I’m peeking as well. 2781-82 and 3077-78 were LTH in Rosemont since last year. Those are gone off blue as well.

That's more in line with recent June picks, which do indeed align with weekday service to the beaches. 2022: Sun June 12 2023: Sun June 4 2024: Sun June 9

Looks like the seasonal Memorial Day to Labor Day services (10, 124 (later service) & 130) starts this weekend and the weekday Beach Service (35, 63, 72 & 78) starts Monday June 9th, 2025. So maybe the summer pick starts Sunday June 8th, 2025. https://www.transitchicago.com/cta-kicks-off-summer-with-added-bus-service-to-beaches-navy-pier-and-museums/

7207-7208, 7211-7212 and 7213-7214 is enroute to Rosemont Yard from Skokie Shops.

Just spotted a train making the voyage from Skokie Shops to the Blue Line. The only cars numbers I was able to make out were 7213-7214.

As of now, 2659 does not show up on the map and 2651 is tracking as the correct number.

They have been since its inception in 2012. Real time didn't show up to Pace until ~2016, Metra was back and forth as well (~2015ish). Jack's answer is the only one - because Transit can do so much more than what the RTA wants to do (and do it wrongly).

1873 is back on the 49 after its second trip to south shops this spring and 1873 has a new drivers shield installed on it.

That makes sense, north park isn’t good with staying on top of buses with broken trackers. Examples of buses with bad trackers that go off include 1547, 4031, and 4015, which been like this for months and they didn’t wanna fix it.

1789 is ghosting on the 93 with “Not In Service” on the signs

Public Meeting #1 June 5, 2025 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Forest Park Public Library Austin Room 7555 Jackson Blvd. Forest Park, IL 60130 Learn more about the I-290 / I-88 Express Bus Study and provide your input into its implementation. https://www.pacebus.com/I-290-study

As pointed out at the meeting, CTA and Metra are already on the Transit app; Pace deemed that necessary to show connections. As I illustrated somewhere above, a click in Evanston brings up Purple Line, Metra, 93, 201, and 206, as well as Pace. As I said above, this region should just give up parochialism and pay for Transit region-wide, and while it was implied that that was possible, it was also implied that someone else would try to reinvent the wheel and force Pace onto it.

That could be done on a contract basis, and is 99.44% irrelevant to your initial question on why there was Metra material on UP property, which I assume I answered adequately. As the filing pointed out, only potential interference with UP freight operations is on the West line.

One thing I hadn't noticed before, but it seems like Metra doesn't allow you to use a Day Pass on multiple lines. For instance if I bought a Zone 4 to Zone 1 Day Pass on the UP West Line, I couldn't use the pass on the Metra Electric or the UP North Line. The old ten rides could be used across the entire system as long as the zones matched. That made the system easier to use. Now I'm running into situations where I have to purchase tickets for each line. The line exception is the weekend pass which is good across all Metra lines.

There is some very minor freight traffic out of the North Ave yard, although one siding & line that went east at Bloomingdale Ave has been removed, but there are still two factories on the West side of Elston, between Elston & the right of way that maintain their sidings & the switches & dwarf signals are still operating..

Getting CTA on the Transit app would be a big move. It's one of the best products out there and it is integrated with bikes, scooters, and Uber/Lyft. Also works for other cities and ticket purchasing. In Montreal they have added the ability to inform riders of unplanned detours based on trends in the GPS tracking, which would be really helpful in Chicago.

The Transit app lets one purchase tickets in it (Transit). For instance, RGRTA uses this method. Again, old contractual obligations and lack of coordination result in cludges like Ventra..

I agree (about the RTA Trip Planner, which has always been a cluster since Goroo). The last thing I did before leaving Berkeley was getting the University on Transit. Granted, our equipment was powered by Nextbus (which I never thought there were products worse than Trapeze), but with the amount of connectivity here in the Bay Area, and the wasted potential amongst the three (never mind Ventra), it's worth it to retain them. What Metra and CTA wants to do is what BART (which I've been a fan of for years) and WMATA are doing, which is putting their efforts on their apps, which has potential, but as we look at Clipper and Ventra (I won't scorch OMNI yet), is that the GTFS+/RT feed and detours/changes need to reflect accurately (Pace, and AC Transit don't do a good job with visualizing detours).

In connection with the above, the filing says: