{"id":469884,"date":"2025-12-25T02:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469884\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:27:12","slug":"several-bnsf-trains-canceled-on-christmas-eve-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469884\/","title":{"rendered":"Several BNSF trains canceled on Christmas Eve \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several BNSF Metra line trains scheduled to run on Christmas Eve were canceled mid-day due to an &#8220;operational incident,&#8221; Metra announced.<\/p>\n<p>A staffing shortage resulted in the need to cancel some service on Christmas Eve, a Metra spokesperson told NBC Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3:13 p.m., Metra BNSF posted about the cancelation on social media. <\/p>\n<p>The trains that will not operate are the inbound 2026, 2028 and 2036. Canceled outbound trains are 2029, 2037 and 2041. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the cancellation, Metra is operating on a <a href=\"https:\/\/metra.com\/schedules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduced schedule<\/a> on December 24. <\/p>\n<p>Metra is warning of crowding potential on inbound trains, with the worst on No. 2034 scheduled to leave Aurora at 8:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closer look at the trains that were canceled:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inbound:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No. 2026 &#8212; Scheduled to depart Aurora at 4:05 p.m. and arrive at Chicago Union Station at 5:20 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>No. 2028 &#8212; Scheduled to depart Aurora at 5:05 p.m. and arrive at Chicago Union Station at 6:20 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>No. 2036 &#8212; Scheduled to depart Aurora at 9:05 p.m. and arrive at Chicago Union Station at 10:20 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Outbound:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No. 2029 &#8212; Scheduled to depart Chicago Union Station at 7:33 p.m. and arrive at Aurora at 8:51 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>No. 2041 &#8212; Scheduled to depart Chicago Union Station at 10:30 p.m. and arrive at Aurora at 11:26 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>No. 2037 &#8212; Scheduled to depart Chicago Union Station at 11:33 p.m. and arrive at Aurora at 11:51 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Train schedule information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/metra.com\/schedules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to an operational incident, the following BNSF trains will not operate this evening: Inbound 2026, 2028, 2036. Outbound 2029, 2037, 2041. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZO4CpScL3G\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZO4CpScL3G<\/a> for schedule information.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Metra BNSF (@metraBNSF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metraBNSF\/status\/2003936985506037778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No additional information was immediately available. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several BNSF Metra line trains scheduled to run on Christmas Eve were canceled mid-day due to an &#8220;operational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,18277],"class_list":{"0":"post-469884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-metra"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115777847088777967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}