Metra on Monday acknowledged the confusion and began a public outreach effort that could potentially rename all of its lines ...

Metra Electric is named for the way the trains are powered. Each line is identified on maps and signs by a different color. Commuters wait to board an inbound Union Pacific Northwest Metra train ...

Metra has begun a rider survey over renaming its lines from their current names — which largely are derived from their ...

Or switching the Union Pacific North Line to Metra 1 (M1)? Metra is surveying passengers about a potential rebranding to make ...

Metra is launching a survey to ask riders what they think about renaming lines to make the system easier to understand.

The Metra Electric line is named after the type of locomotive pulling the trains. And its three Union Pacific lines are named after the freight company that will soon no longer operate the line ...

The inbound Union Pacific North Line train at the Davis Street Metra station in 2024. Thirty years after the Metra line that ...

A Metra train arrives at the LaSalle Street Metra Station. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Metra deserves credit for thinking about renaming each of its 14 commuter rail lines in a bid to help ...

One of Metra’s SD70MACH locomotives pushes a Chicago-bound Milwaukee District North train through Deerfield, Ill., on Feb. 25, 2025. David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra is having “great luck” with its fleet ...