Naperville is a train station in Naperville, Illinois, served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. Amtrak trains stopping at the Naperville station include the California Zephyr, Illinois Zephyr, Carl Sandburg and Southwest Chief. It is also one of two stations in Naperville that serves Metra's BNSF commuter line, and an abundance of Pace bus routes. Naperville station was originally built in 1910 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.[3] On April 26, 1946, the station was the site of a collision between the CB&Q's Exposition Flyer and Advance Flyer. On April 26, 2014, a memorial entitled Tragedy to Triumph was dedicated at the train station. The sculpture by Paul Kuhn is dedicated not only to the crash victims but also to the rescuers at the site.[4]
As of 2018, Naperville has an average of 4,015 weekday boardings for Metra trains. This makes the station the second busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, after Route 59 station.[2] The station served about 27,000 Amtrak passengers in 2022.[5]
Bus connections
- 530 West Galena–Naperville Metra Station
- 714 College of DuPage–Naperville–Wheaton Connector
- 722 Ogden Avenue
Notes
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of Illinois" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). Metra. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.
- ^ Naperville, Illinois; Great American Stations (Amtrak)
- ^ Susan Frick Carlman (February 28, 2014). "Anatomy of an art project". Naperville Sun. pp. 1, 6 & 7.
- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2012 - State of Illinois" (PDF). Amtrak Government Affairs. June 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
External links
Media related to Naperville station at Wikimedia Commons