Tag Archives: metra

Good Samaritans?

I got off the train to find my Vue not starting. The car wasn’t turning over, it feels like a dead battery or something similar. I called Sarah and she loaded up the kids and headed to the train station to come and give me a jump. While I was waiting I [...]

The end of an era

I saw this on the morning news on NBC 5 this morning. So I could share it here, I found Metra says so long to its rail saloons in the Trib’s online edition.
Every weekday at 5:17 p.m., the bar car on Metra’s Milwaukee District West line becomes the place where everybody knows your name and [...]