Normal Metra UP/West Service To Resume Thursday
CHICAGO (STMW) -- Normal train service will resume on Metra's Union Pacific/West Line Thursday morning after a fire damaged signal equipment earlier this week at a railroad facility in west suburban Melrose Park.
Metra posted a service alert to its website at 3:21 a.m. to announce that the signal bungalow damaged in Tuesday's fire had been repaired and all scheduled trains would operate on the UP/West Line Thursday.
The fire, caused by an electrical shortage in a piece of Union Pacific Railroad equipment, happened at a facility near 25th Avenue in Melrose Park and caused massive delays for UP/West riders Tuesday and Wednesday. Metra described the facility as a "nerve center controlling all the trains in the area."
Metra had initially announced that repairs would delay trains until at least Thursday afternoon.
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