![]() ![]() Paul Railway, and then to Linden Avenue in Wilmette on April 2, 1912. The route was extended to Central Street in Evanston on via leased and electrified trackage belonging to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. It was constructed by the Northwestern Elevated Railroad. ![]() The oldest section of the route opened on on the north side between Wilson and Broadway Avenues and the Loop. The Red Line was created in 1993 when the CTA adopted color-coded nomenclature for all of its 'L' routes. Service has a 4 to 6 minute headway during peak periods with 8-car trains, and a 15 minute headway during the early morning hours with 4 to 8 car trains. Like the Blue Line, the Red Line runs 24 hours a day. If there is a shortage of cars at the Howard Yard during rush hour, Boeing-Vertol-built 2400-Series Purple Line cars will sometimes appear on the Red Line, usually in mixed consists with 2600-series cars. Cellular Field and the Illinois Institute of Technology ( Sox-35th), DePaul University ( Fullerton), the Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University, and Loyola University Chicago ( Loyola), as well as the Magnificent Mile and Chinatown.Ĭurrently, the Red Line is operated only with Budd-built 2600-Series rail cars. Stations along the Red Line serve important Chicago landmarks such as Wrigley Field ( Addison), U.S. Extensions going even further south are currently being planned for the Red Line, but no determination as of yet on whether the extension will continue on the median or become elevated. Beyond the interchange, the Dan Ryan and Bishop Ford expressways continue towards the City's Limits south without a transit line in the median strip, but with a wide grass median where future extensions of the rapid transit line can be an option. The 98th Street Yard and Carhouse lie just south and east of the Dan Ryan- Bishop Ford Expressway interchange. The Red Line follows the Dan Ryan the rest of the way to the 95th Street terminal (9500 S. Chicago pioneered using expressway medians for local subway lines. The Red Line then tunnels beneath the expressway interchange between 28th and 30th Streets and continues southward now occupying the median strip of the Dan Ryan Expressway (Interstate 90 & 94). South of Cermak Road, the Red Line tracks run along the median strip of the Franklin Street Connector, a once-planned feeder branch of the Dan Ryan Expressway. The Cermak-Chinatown station is in this section. The Red Line bridges 18th Street and continues southward on a steel column pan concrete deck elevated structure to 24th Street. This is unique to it and the Purple Line, when the Purple Line runs its rush hour route.Ī Red Line train approaches Cermak-Chinatown station from the northīack at 13th Street the subway swings away from State Street on a reverse curve to the southwest then rises to another portal near 18th Street adjacent Metra's Rock Island District commuter railroad line. It is now used for non-service train moves and emergency purposes.įrom the Red Line, passengers can directly transfer to any other Chicago 'L' line. This section was used between October, 1943 and February, 1993 when North Side trains were routed to Englewood and Jackson Park. South of Roosevelt Road, there is a junction, with one pair of tracks curving to the east and leaving the subway at 13th Street and connects to the old South Side 'L' near 16th and State Streets. South of Belmont, Red and Brown Line trains run side-by-side on the four track North Side 'L' to Armitage Avenue.Īt Armitage, the Red Line descends to a portal at Willow Street and becomes a subway route, turning southeast in Clybourn Avenue, east in Division Street, and south in State Street through the Loop to Roosevelt Road. The Brown Line (Ravenswood) joins the Red Line tracks just north of the Belmont Avenue station. The 'L' continues southward running adjacent the Graceland Cemetery, Irving Park Road and Sheffield Avenue from Uptown to Lincoln Park. From here, the route transitions from concrete embankment to steel elevated structure. From there the route swings on a sweeping reverse curve to the east to Sheridan Road, adjacent to Loyola University Chicago and continues southerly parallel to Broadway Avenue to the east (in Edgewater) and follows Broadway to Leland Avenue. The Red Line extends southeasterly on an elevated embankment structure about a half-mile (1 kilometer) west of the lakefront to Touhy Avenue then turns south along Glenwood Avenue to Morse station. 1700 W.), on the City Limits farthest north. The northern terminus of the Red Line is Howard Street in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago (7600 N. Addison Station at Wrigley Field is served by Red Line trains. ![]()
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