Daily Herald: 'First in the country': Metra to showcase game-changing battery-operated passenger train

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COOL!! #Metra is showing off its first new BATTERY POWERED ELECTRIC TRAINSET at McCormick Place THIS WEEKEND. It goes into service in 2027, after a testing. It's the first of 8 trainsets ordered (w/option to get 8 more). Clean, quiet, #ZeroEmissions
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The new #Metra @Metrarail battery electric train set in #Bollingbrook IL, on its way into Chicago

The new #Metra @Metrarail battery electric train set in #Bollingbrook IL, on its way into Chicago

#Waldolf wearing his #Svengoolie @Svengoolie t shirt and holding his #Sven autographed #rubberchicken under the #Berwyn sign on the west side of the Berwyn @Metra #Metra station #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #bear #costume @METV #METV

Chicago
Metra Electric trains are stopped near Van Buren due to switch issues. Length of delay unknown at this time.
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the 1st new #Metra Battery-electric trainset heading into Chicago 9/27/2026

the 1st new #Metra Battery-electric trainset heading into Chicago 9/27/2026

#Waldolf wearing his #Svengoolie shirt and holding on to his @Svengoolie autographed #rubberchicken at the #Berwyn IL @Metra #Metra station waiting for a train to take him to #Chicago and the @METV #METV studios #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #bear #costume 9/2021

I find it weird they went with 480v charging plugs instead of using pantographs and just electrifying some tracks. I would assume that 25KV charges faster, and raising a pantograph is easier than plugging in a cable…

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Illinois
Milwaukee District North Line trains are stopped in both directions due to emergency track repair work near the Prairie Crossing station.
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The B section of The new #Stadler battery Electric #trainset for #Metra at the Northbound I55 scale house in Bollingbrook IL 9/27/2026

The A section of The new #Stadler battery Electric #trainset for #Metra at the Northbound I55 scale house in Bollingbrook IL 9/27/2026

The new #Stadler battery Electric #trainset for #Metra at the Northbound I55 scale house in Bollingbrook IL 9/27/2026

#Waldolf at the #Berwyn Illinois #Metra station wearing his #Svengoolie t shirt and holding his Sven Autographed #rubberChicken with a #BNSF train behind him #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #bear #costume @METV #METV

#Waldolf wearing his @Metv #Metv @Svengoolie #Svengoolie shirt hand holding his Svengoolie autographed #RubberChicken at the #Berwyn IL. #Metra station #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #bear #costume 9/2021 on my mind right now is do I send this picture or the others I took to METV?

#Waldolf wearing his #Svengoolie #METV @Svengoolie @METV shirt at the #Berwyn @Metra #Metra station while a #BNSF train waits clearance to contuse west #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #bear #costume

#FursuitFriday See Tracks Think Trains! #Waldolf at the Riverside IL @Metra #metra station with an outbound #Amtrak @Amtrak train behind him #railsafteyWeek #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #bear #costume original photo taken 7/2016