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While I am currently waiting for n O'HARE bound Blue Line train at Jackson,  I am hearing Blue Line service is now suspended between Jefferson Park and O'HARE 

  I will probably have to take another shuttle bus when reach Jefferson Park but here's hoping the issue is resolved by then 

 

UPDATE 45 MINUTES LATER; Apparently the issue was resolved as trains are running to the airport 

 

 

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On 11/18/2023 at 7:27 PM, Confirmed Illinois Citizen said:

Yellow line service completely suspended due to a collision with a MoW vehicle near Howard.

Um you're three days late. It's already been reported and being discussed in the November Yellow Line crash thread.

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The Blues Line strikes again.  Mechanical problem on an O'HARE bound train at UIC Halsted.  Trains aren't moving.  To make matters worse, I haven't seen a Forest Park bound train in a while which begs the question,  what's really going on?

Finally a Forest Park bound 7000 series train showed up at Western. 

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More Blues Line delays.  Power is now off for a 2nd time  alone the Forest Park branch.   First outage was at Oak park Ave.  An EB O'HARE bound train was sitting between Oak Park and Austin.  My train made it to Oak park before we had to sit.  A 2nd power cut off occurred at Harlem.

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36 minutes ago, Jackson232 said:

It took about four hours for all the trains that had stations bypassed to be open again. 

Because  you have to hold a dinner at the Palmer House to collect $2 million. Although coyotes like French (poodle) Food,they don't have deep pockets.

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41 minutes ago, Busjack said:

Fire, I'll take you to burn

What's with all the track fires? Monday at 16th (Orange, Green) and this morning Loop at Adams/Wabash.

There have been so many recently. This weekend they are performing maintenance on the tracks for the green and orange lines. Not sure how long ago this was planned but if it was just planned recently it’s probably to stop the fires.

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15 hours ago, Jackson232 said:

There have been so many recently. This weekend they are performing maintenance on the tracks for the green and orange lines. Not sure how long ago this was planned but if it was just planned recently it’s probably to stop the fires.

My guess is the heat, combined with morons that throw lit cigarettes onto the tracks, makes the creosote easier to ignite.

Way back in the mid-60s, when I was a teen, I was on a Ravenswood train going around the Loop, when the motorman stopped on Wabash between stations, got off through the front door with a fire extinguisher & put out a fire on a single wood tie.  A few days later, the Daily News columnist John Justin Smith wrote about it.

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5 hours ago, strictures said:

My guess is the heat, combined with morons that throw lit cigarettes onto the tracks, makes the creosote easier to ignite.

Way back in the mid-60s, when I was a teen, I was on a Ravenswood train going around the Loop, when the motorman stopped on Wabash between stations, got off through the front door with a fire extinguisher & put out a fire on a single wood tie.  A few days later, the Daily News columnist John Justin Smith wrote about it.

Yea that does make sense since it’s getting hotter out. Also I have never heard about that on the Ravenswood fire on the tracks. I have see one track fire and that was when I was on the brown line to the loop and right where the train curves to go to montrose there was a fire. The operator walked out to the tracks and when down and put it out with a fire extinguisher.

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