Long wait · Chicago · Sat Oct 10
38 min with no Blue Line train
At Racine, toward Forest Park, between 10:39 pm and 11:17 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.
- Line
- Blue Line
- Station
- Racine (station 40470)
- Direction
- toward Forest Park
- Train before
- run 135, passed 10:39:39 pm
- Train after
- run 215, passed 11:17:39 pm
- Gap
- 38 min (2280 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 10 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Racine toward Forest Park. The two runs either side of the gap are labeled.
What Train Tracker said
Train Tracker reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Racine when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Run 135 (before) | Run 215 (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 10:38:09 pm | next stop Racine | next stop Washington |
| 10:41:09 pm | next stop Illinois Medical District | next stop LaSalle |
| 10:44:09 pm | next stop Illinois Medical District | next stop UIC-Halsted |
| 10:47:09 pm | next stop Western (Blue - Forest Park Branch) | next stop UIC-Halsted |
| 10:50:09 pm | next stop Kedzie-Homan | next stop Racine |
| 10:53:09 pm | next stop Kedzie-Homan | next stop Racine · flagged delayed |
| 10:56:09 pm | next stop Pulaski (Blue) | next stop Racine · flagged delayed |
| 10:59:09 pm | next stop Pulaski (Blue) · flagged delayed | not in the feed |
| 11:02:09 pm | next stop Pulaski (Blue) · flagged delayed | not in the feed |
| 11:05:09 pm | next stop Pulaski (Blue) | not in the feed |
| 11:08:09 pm | next stop Pulaski (Blue) | not in the feed |
| 11:11:09 pm | next stop Cicero (Blue) | not in the feed |
| 11:14:09 pm | next stop Austin (Blue) | not in the feed |
| 11:17:09 pm | next stop Austin (Blue) | next stop Racine |
Showing 14 of 42 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-blue-gap-83859.json.
Check it yourself
Scheduled times come from CTA's GTFS schedule for Sat Oct 10. Positions come from Train Tracker, polled once a minute. The raw records above are exactly what CTA's servers returned. How the numbers are worked out.