Metra will be operating its popular Holiday Trains—specially decorated trains filled with holiday characters—on five rail lines this December. Tickets for the trains will go on sale at noon on Nov. 17 ...

CHICAGO — Metra is returning its holiday trains beginning at the end of the month. The complete schedule is below, per Metra. Tickets for the holiday trains go on sale Nov. 11 at shop.metra.com. They ...

Holiday Trains Return: Metra’s festive Holiday Trains will run on five rail lines this December — Metra Electric, BNSF, Milwaukee District West, Rock Island, and Union Pacific Northwest — featuring ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Metra is extending its Family ...

For decades, Metra has been labeled as a suburbs-to-city-and-back operation. But there’s more the railroad could do, and officials are seeking rider input on what’s next with a survey open for public ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (WGN) — A change in the operation on ...

What do the Rock Island, Milwaukee Road, Illinois Central Gulf and Chicago & North Western railroads have in common? They’re all part of Metra, once known as the Regional Transportation Authority’s ...

CHICAGO — Metra is extending its Family Fares to all travel and offering special holiday passes for Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, it announced Tuesday. Metra’s Family Fares allow up to three ...