However, Metra had more experience with six-axle passenger locomotives than most. The agency was among the last in the country to utilize EMD’s famed E-units in the 1980s and 1990s, and as late as the ...

How Metra named its 14 suburban commuter rail lines made little sense. Its two “Milwaukee” lines don’t go to the Wisconsin city — and are instead named after the Milwaukee Road the lines ...