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Howard Yard | |||||
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 Howard Yard, taken from Howard station facing North in 2003 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | 1825 W. Juneway Terrace Chicago, Illinois | ||||
| Coordinates | 42°01′20″N87°40′32″W / 42.0223°N 87.6756°W | ||||
| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||
| Line | North Side main line | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1919 | ||||
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The Howard Yard is a CTA rail yard in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, on the border with Evanston, Illinois. It is the largest rail yard of the CTA, [1] and stores cars from the Yellow, Red, and Purple Lines of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Currently, 5000-series railcars are stored here. [2] It is adjacent to Howard station.
The yard was opened in 1919 [3] and gradually replaced the functions of Wilson Yard, until the latter was destroyed by fire in 1996. [3] The yard was rebuilt between 1991 and 1993. [4]
A train derailed in the yard in 1990, disrupting rail traffic to Evanston. [5] In 2023, a Yellow Line train collided with a CTA snowplow on tracks adjacent to the yard. [6]