{"id":584624,"date":"2026-02-12T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/584624\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:31:13","slug":"metra-service-resumes-after-freight-train-derailment-in-chicago-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/584624\/","title":{"rendered":"Metra service resumes after freight train derailment in Chicago Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metra Southwest Service has resumed after a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/metra-southwest-service-chicago-ridge-freight-train-derailment\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> freight train derailed<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago Ridge early Wednesday morning.  <\/p>\n<p>The derailment near Ridgeland Avenue and Central Avenue   impacted the Metra Southwest Service line, halting all train service on Wednesday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Metra confirmed the tracks reopened at 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Crews with heavy equipment had been working at the scene for hours to clear away some trees to get to the derailed cars. At least a dozen freight cars came off the tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commuters should check\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Metra.com<\/a>\u00a0for updates.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metra Southwest Service has resumed after a freight train derailed\u00a0in Chicago Ridge early Wednesday morning. The derailment near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":584625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,252851,5386,1818,18277],"class_list":{"0":"post-584624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-freight-train-derailment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-metra"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116057675251949805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584624","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=584624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}