strictures Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 3 hours ago, Pace831 said: I was going to say before that it seems like the UPNW has a disproportionate number of fatal accidents than the other lines. Recalling the Tribune from a few years ago, there's some truth to that. Now is @Busjack going to make a crack about Phil Pagano? I don't know about Busjack, but I will. It was that bigamist's suicide by Metra on May 7, 2010, that set off a rash of Metracides that has yet to end. I had the misfortune to witness one exactly a week later at Edgebrook. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 14 hours ago, Pace831 said: I was going to say before that it seems like the UPNW has a disproportionate number of fatal accidents than the other lines. Recalling the Tribune from a few years ago, there's some truth to that. Now is @Busjack going to make a crack about Phil Pagano? 10 hours ago, strictures said: I don't know about Busjack, but I will. It was that bigamist's suicide by Metra on May 7, 2010, that set off a rash of Metracides that has yet to end. I had the misfortune to witness one exactly a week later at Edgebrook. I'm not going to say that Phil Pagano started it. I'm only going to say that there is a certain irony or hypocrisy that someone who was the head of the agency, and a face of Operation Lifesaver did it. Sort of like if Forrest Claypool peed and fried himself on a third rail in Ravenswood Manor. The chart is skewed by rail line length and frequency. You can discount the ME because one has to climb the embankment, and NCS, SW, and HC because it is a lot easier to be run over by a freight train. As indicated on the chart, Metra UPNW has an average of 57 trains and is 70 miles. UPW has 97 trains but only 43.6 miles, and BNSF has 134 trains but only 37 miles. In short, there's about twice as many places to commit suicide on the UPNW. Rate on each is about 0.5 per mile. If you take into account that city trackage is usually on embankment, and most suicides are in the suburbs (although there was a BNSF one in the city), the UPNW would have a lower rate per mile than the other two lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pace831 Posted December 2, 2016 Report Share Posted December 2, 2016 2 hours ago, Busjack said: I'm not going to say that Phil Pagano started it. I'm only going to say that there is a certain irony or hypocrisy that someone who was the head of the agency, and a face of Operation Lifesaver did it. Sort of like if Forrest Claypool peed and fried himself on a third rail in Ravenswood Manor. The chart is skewed by rail line length and frequency. You can discount the ME because one has to climb the embankment, and NCS, SW, and HC because it is a lot easier to be run over by a freight train. As indicated on the chart, Metra UPNW has an average of 57 trains and is 70 miles. UPW has 97 trains but only 43.6 miles, and BNSF has 134 trains but only 37 miles. In short, there's about twice as many places to commit suicide on the UPNW. Rate on each is about 0.5 per mile. If you take into account that city trackage is usually on embankment, and most suicides are in the suburbs (although there was a BNSF one in the city), the UPNW would have a lower rate per mile than the other two lines. In terms of the number of fatalities leading to train delays, the UPNW still beats the other lines for the reasons given (length, train frequency, number of grade crossings). Note that non-suicide fatalities are included in that assessment. Here are the annual suicide numbers for Metra-owned and UP Metra (there doesn't seem to be a separate category for BNSF/Metra). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted December 13, 2016 Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 Metra's annual Operation North Pole (ONP) train made it onto Youtube. Personally I like this year's wraps better than last year's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted December 15, 2016 Report Share Posted December 15, 2016 2 hours ago, west towns said: Better call out the all mighty uber now metra is partnering with them. uber will save the day I guess you were referring to this. Note that the deal is that Uber is paying Metra for promotional consideration. Metra isn't doing anything to encourage Uber providing feeder service, although the article does say that Metra will talk to employers about providing pooled rides, something Pace already does through the employer vanpool program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pace831 Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Vote for your "favorite" rude behavior on the train. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 This is about as random Metra as it gets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pace831 Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 5 hours ago, Busjack said: This is about as random Metra as it gets. That's crazy! 7424 has the new seats! Now featuring bullet holes too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 8 hours ago, Pace831 said: That's crazy! 7424 has the new seats! Now featuring bullet holes too. The stories have been updated with more details, but still don't explain how the South Suburban Task Force tracked him on the Metra train, but at least point out that the police boarded the train at Lake-Cook, instead of the suspect getting on there after working late at Suntory, for instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman8119 Posted January 9, 2017 Report Share Posted January 9, 2017 On 1/7/2017 at 2:31 PM, Pace831 said: That's crazy! 7424 has the new seats! Now featuring bullet holes too. The new seats aren't anything to be excited about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west towns Posted January 10, 2017 Report Share Posted January 10, 2017 I agree the cup holders are too small and seats not really comfortable. They look nice and different but in long run not sure of there durability. How the heck they picked these seats evem after all the research Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted January 10, 2017 Report Share Posted January 10, 2017 Interesting post on Metra's new-ish blog about how the network got its name. CORTA anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 3 hours ago, MTRSP1900-CTA3200 said: Interesting post on Metra's new-ish blog about how the network got its name. CORTA anyone? Somehow they got offTRAC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 On 1/7/2017 at 9:09 PM, Busjack said: The stories have been updated with more details, Today's report is that he committed suicide by train, but not in the conventional manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 17 hours ago, MTRSP1900-CTA3200 said: Interesting post on Metra's new-ish blog about how the network got its name. CORTA anyone? Curious that the first priority of both new service boards was branding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted January 26, 2017 Report Share Posted January 26, 2017 Another car available for Elwood Blues to purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 New Metra F40 Locomotive #217 was spotted today on the Rock Island Line while I was driving on the Dan Ryan. The weird part about it that it was disabled allowing #184 to be the lead locomotive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 1 hour ago, garmon757 said: New Metra F40 Locomotive #217 was spotted today on the Rock Island Line while I was driving on the Dan Ryan. The weird part about it that it was disabled allowing #184 to be the lead locomotive. Cool! Maybe it's just like that for testing. The F59PHs were seen like that for a while. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted March 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 3 hours ago, MTRSP1900-CTA3200 said: Cool! Maybe it's just like that for testing. The F59PHs were seen like that for a while. To come to think about it, you're probably right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainman8119 Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 217 isn't exactly new. 216 and 217 were purchased a while back from Amtrak and have been up on the Milwaukee. My guess is that it was at 47th Street for some rehab work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted April 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 1 hour ago, trainman8119 said: 217 isn't exactly new. 216 and 217 were purchased a while back from Amtrak and have been up on the Milwaukee. My guess is that it was at 47th Street for some rehab work. Thanks for clarifying that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pace831 Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 2 hours ago, trainman8119 said: 217 isn't exactly new. 216 and 217 were purchased a while back from Amtrak and have been up on the Milwaukee. My guess is that it was at 47th Street for some rehab work. 215 and 216 were the ones purchased from Amtrak. 217 must be the fourth used locomotive that was announced around the same time as F59's 97-99. I'm not sure where 217 came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 On 3/23/2017 at 11:13 PM, garmon757 said: To come to think about it, you're probably right. Yeah, some in-service trains are like that too. What they should do is put 139 (River Forest) and 169 (Oak Park) together for those runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busfan2847 Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 On 4/1/2017 at 1:30 PM, Pace831 said: 215 and 216 were the ones purchased from Amtrak. 217 must be the fourth used locomotive that was announced around the same time as F59's 97-99. I'm not sure where 217 came from. 215 and 216 were Amtrak 258 and 375. 217 which I thought was purchased for spares only, was VRE V32 and originally Amtrak 364. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRChiCity Posted April 26, 2017 Report Share Posted April 26, 2017 Get a load of this http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/wilmette/crime/ct-wml-train-car-mishap-tl-0427-20170424-story.html why would you leave the scene of an accident? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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