Saturday, November 26, 2011

CTA 2011 Holiday Train Schudule & accessibility info...

The Chicago Transit Authority is getting into the holiday spirit with our popular Holiday Train! Santa and his elves will ride the train passing out candy canes and season's greetings.

The spectacular train is an amazing sight - during the daytime and at night. The outside of the six-car train is adorned with holiday seasonal images. Thousands of twinkling lights outline the shape of the train and windows, with even more lights running across the tops of the cars.

Interiors of the cars are decked out with thousands of multi-colored lights, red bows, garland, and red and green overhead lighting. The hand poles are wrapped to look like candy canes.

As the train pulls into each station, Santa waves to the boarding passengers from his sleigh on an open-air flatcar carrying his reindeer and decorated holiday trees.

The Holiday Train will travel all CTA rail lines in November and December as part of regular rail service. Normal CTA fares apply.

The train generally operates from about 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on select weekdays (schedules for each rail line will vary), and will make stops at all stations along the respective routes.

Holiday Train 2011 Schedules
Detailed schedules will be posted as they become available.

Green Line & Orange Line November 25 - Friday
Green Line November 26 - Saturday
Green Line & Orange Line November 30 - Wednesday
Orange Line & Brown Line December 1 - Thursday
Orange Line & Brown Line December 2 - Friday
Orange Line & Brown Line December 3 - Saturday
Pink Line December 7 - Wednesday
Blue Line December 8 - Thursday
Blue Line December 9 - Friday
Blue Line December 10 - Saturday
Red Line December 14 - Wednesday
Purple Line December 15 - Thursday
Red Line December 16 - Friday
Red Line & Purple Line December 17 - Saturday
Red Line December 20 - Tuesday
Purple Line December 21 - Wednesday
Yellow Line December 22 - Thursday

CTA Holiday Train - Dec. 2010 - Connections - Chicago Transit Authority

YouTube Uploaded by CTAConnections on Dec 7, 2010

Accessibility on CTA

'L' (Train) Service
CTA's train system has dozens of stations that are accessible to customers with disabilities and all CTA trains come with accomodations for people with disabilities on some or all cars.

To find out which stations are accessible, see our List of Accessible Stations:
http://www.transitchicago.com/riding_cta/accessibleservices.aspx

For more info on CTA accessibility visit:
http://www.transitchicago.com/accessibility/#scheduled_rail

For CTA Holiday Train Schedule 2012 (posted FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012):
http://abilitychicagoinfo.blogspot.com/2012/11/cta-holiday-train-schedule-2012.html
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