CHICAGO (AP) -
Commuter rail service to Northwest Indiana from Chicago was disrupted Monday
evening, after a shipping container on a Canadian National freight train hit
a bridge on Chicago's South Side, halting service on the South Shore Line.
According to text
updates posted by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, the
accident occurred shortly before 7 p.m., south of Metra’s Kensington/115th
Street station.
At 8:27 p.m.,
according to the next text, all South Shore trains were “delayed
indefinitely.” At this time NICTD was calling the incident a “derailment”
and reported that CN was “bringing a rescue train to remove the blocking
train.”
The last update was
posted at 9:31 p.m., when NICTD announced that eastbound South Shore trains
were “on the move towards Indiana,” following the removal of what NICTD was
now calling a “freight blockage.”
Eastbound Train 121
was annulled; westbound Train 22 was running 20 to 30 minutes late due to
“passenger train interference”; and westbound Train 222 was 36 minutes late,
NICTD reported in its final update of the night.
Metra's Electric
District is not affected by the mishap.