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Metra Alters Service for Halloween

Additional trains and cars will be added for mid-afternoon travel on Monday, Oct. 31.

If you take Metra to work and want to leave early on Monday, Oct. 31 so you can get home for trick-or-treating, then a revised train schedule may help you.

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe route will run four extra trains:

  • 12:25 PM express to Downers Grove and all stops to Route 59,
  • 2:25 PM express to Naperville/Route 59,
  • 3:10 PM express to Naperville/Route 59 and
  • 3:50 PM express to Naperville/Route 59.

Train No. 1241 (3:22 PM) will terminate at the Downers Grove Main Street station and inbound Train No. 1274 will depart from Downers Grove, Main Street and will not stop at Aurora.

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The Union Pacific West Line will add extra cars to mid-afternoon trains from Chicago to Elburn starting with the 1:40 p.m. departure. 

 

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