The Chicago Tribune reports: Metra says it will have personnel on duty overnight Monday to help ensure that trains will run on time during the morning rush hour Tuesday, despite the expected snow and cold.
“We’re taking all precautions,” Metra Deputy Executive Director Peter Zwolfer said at a news conference. “We’re not taking any chances.”
In addition to around-the-clock staffing at key locations like major switching points, Metra will keep locomotive fuel tanks topped off and have new switch heaters and cold air blowers on hand to keep equipment operating, Metra Executive Director Don Orseno said.
Metra intends to be “as far ahead as we can possibly be” of the approaching snow storm, Orseno said.
There were delays on many of Metra’s lines Monday morning as temperatures dipped below zero, but officials said not all of them were directly related to the weather.
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