CTA Yellow Line service suspended for hours after empty train goes off rails
Service on the CTA Yellow Line between Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood and suburban Skokie was suspended during the morning rush Tuesday, after a car went off the rails.
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Service on the CTA Yellow Line between Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood and suburban Skokie was suspended during the morning rush Tuesday, after a car went off the rails.
Service on the CTA Yellow Line was suspended during the morning rush Tuesday, after a car went off the rails in Skokie.
This was not the first incident involving a Yellow Line train in the area of the Howard terminal in Rogers Park. Lauren Victory reports.
No one was injured in the Monday night derailment at the Howard terminal. But this was not the first incident involving the Yellow Line in the same area. Asal Rezaei reports.
The Chicago Transit Authority said there was a minor derailment of a Yellow Line/Skokie Swift train at Howard. The cause was unknown, and no injuries were reported.
The Chicago Transit Authority said there was a minor derailment of a Yellow Line/Skokie Swift train at Howard.
From multiple angles, the video shows the exact moment of the November 2023 CTA train crash.
From multiple angles, the video shows the exact moment of the crash that sent 16 people to the hospital.
The two-car train crashed into a snow plow around 10:30 a.m. Nov. 17, 2023, on the main tracks adjacent to the Howard rail yard in Rogers Park.
The NTSB pointed to three factors for the crash.
The two-car train crashed into a snow plow around 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 17 on the main tracks adjacent to the Howard rail yard in Rogers Park, leaving 38 people hurt, including seven CTA employees.
The NTSB report said hospital testing of the 47-year-old train operator detected a blood alcohol level of .06. The legal limit for train operators is .02.
CBS 2's Darius Johnson reports people can now take the Yellow Line train again after service was halted in November when a train crashed into a piece of snow removal equipment.
CTA leaders and Skokie officials rode the Yellow Line for the first time since the service halted back in November.
The CTA will be implementing new safety measures on what it says is an interim basis. Most notably, and as announced before, Yellow Line trains will run at a maximum speed of only 35 mph rather than 55 mph.
It's nicknamed the Skokie Swift, but the process of it getting the CTA Yellow Line back online after a November crash has been awfully slow.
Those investigators are expected to conduct testing throughout the week.
Those investigators are expected to conduct testing throughout the week. The visit comes after the announcement that there will be new safety changes coming to the Yellow Line.
The crash injured dozens of people and caused $8.7 million in damage to CTA equipment.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday released preliminary findings in the Nov. 16 crash, which left all 38 people on the train injured. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
The National Transportation Safety Board is still investigating the crash that left 38 people injured last month. But one thing is for sure – while the train driver tried to stop, it was not in time. CBS 2’s Sabrina Franza reports.
The driver of a CTA Yellow Line train tried to stop before hitting a snow plow last month in Rogers Park, but the train was still going 27 mph at the time of the collision, according to a preliminary report from federal investigators.
About 1,500 people rely on the Yellow Line every day, according to the CTA. But when will those people be back on a train car?
It's been two weeks with no CTA Yellow Line trains running, with service still suspended after a train hit snow removal equipment, injuring 38 people. It was originally thought service would be restored within days of the incident, but trains were still not running this week. CBS 2's Tara Molina looked into what was going on.
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