Talk:List of historical passenger rail services in Chicago

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Columbian Exposition Station=Museum Campus/11th Street?[edit]

According to this map, the "World's Fair Station" is also Roosevelt Road (Metra). Does this mean we can redirect World's Columbian Exposition Terminal Station to Museum Campus/11th Street Station? ----DanTD (talk) 14:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No. First: the World's Fair mentioned here is actually the second one held in Chicago, the Century of Progress, which was held in the 1930s. Second: the Roosevelt station mentioned here is actually Roosevelt/Wabash (CTA). This was not a direct station for access to the World's Fair, but rather the most convenient get off point for North Shore Line passengers making connections to the fair. (Apologies for arriving several months late to answer your question.) Lost on Belmont (talk) 13:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great Central Station[edit]

Isn't Millennium Station the former terminus of the I.C. Electric and South Shore. Wasn't Great Central Station at the south end of Grant Park closer the the Chicago Hilton Bikeoutside (talk) 13:52, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Missing long-distance train stations in Chicago beyond the downtown section[edit]

Passenger trains served Englewood Union (New York Central and Pennsylvania RR), Woodlawn (Illinois Central and New York Central trains due south) and South Chicago (Baltimore and Ohio, with additional tenant in the Pere Marquette, later the C&O).

Perhaps a second table, below the present table, is warranted.Dogru144 (talk) 05:49, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to "List of historical passenger rail services in Chicago"[edit]

Recommended:[edit]

  1. Move this article to "List of historical passenger rail services in Chicago"
    • There's a semantic caveat that people looking for current services may think these are not included. An alternate title that doesn't flow as well is "List of former & active passenger rail services in Chicago"
  2. Set up a redirect from the current page (now a stub) to the table's new home
  3. Add a "See also" that links to history sections of CTA, Metra, etc. articles (I don't think anyone will be doing historiography on Chicago rail any time soon)

Why?[edit]

  • The article doesn't actually include any historical detail, it's just a table.
  • Wikipedia has a pretty strong conventions for identifying lists & other directories as "List of..."
  • This is the first "History of..." article I've seen without longform writing, and that's what I was expecting when clicking in

BNSF and Union Pacific?[edit]

BNSF and Union Pacific were listed as passenger railroads going into the Chicago terminals. The predecessors of BNSF and Union Pacific ceased passenger railroad operations in 1971. It made no sense that they were as continuing passenger operations into the present.Dogru144 (talk) 04:38, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Union Pacific and BNSF are still the owners and operators of their Metra-branded lines, but not for much longer in UP's case. https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-court-gives-union-pacific-green-light-to-cut-its-services-on-three-busy-chicago-commuter-rail-lines/ Cards84664 20:29, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, by the same token, we should identify BNSF, CSX, Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific as passenger train railroads, alongside Amtrak.Dogru144 (talk) 05:46, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Metra operates trains on those lines, but not on UP and BNSF. Cards84664 04:55, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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