By Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times; February 16, 2018
Turns out that lead-foots in the Chicago area aren’t just on the Dan Ryan and Kennedy expressways. The CTA, Metra and the Union Pacific Railroad, which operates several routes for Metra, have recorded more than two dozen train-speeding incidents over the past five years.
Though none had serious results — unlike the 2005 derailment near 47th Street and the Dan Ryan in which a Metra Rock Island District train barreled through a track intersection at 69 miles an hour, killing two and injuring more than 100 — most of the incidents from 2013 through 2017 led to re-training or other discipline for crews.
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