Long wait · Chicago · Sat Oct 10
21 min with no Orange Line train
At LaSalle/Van Buren, toward Adams/Wabash, between 7:05 pm and 7:26 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.
- Line
- Orange Line
- Station
- LaSalle/Van Buren (station 40160)
- Direction
- toward Adams/Wabash
- Train before
- run 719, passed 7:05:38 pm
- Train after
- run 713, passed 7:26:39 pm
- Gap
- 21 min (1261 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 10 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at LaSalle/Van Buren toward Adams/Wabash. 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 LaSalle/Van Buren when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Run 719 (before) | Run 713 (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:04:08 pm | next stop Harold Washington Library-State/Van Buren | next stop Kedzie (Orange) |
| 7:05:08 pm | next stop LaSalle/Van Buren | next stop Western (Orange) |
| 7:06:08 pm | next stop Harold Washington Library-State/Van Buren | next stop Western (Orange) |
| 7:07:08 pm | next stop LaSalle/Van Buren | next stop 35th/Archer |
| 7:08:08 pm | next stop Quincy | next stop 35th/Archer |
| 7:09:08 pm | next stop Washington/Wells | next stop 35th/Archer |
| 7:10:08 pm | next stop Clark/Lake | next stop 35th/Archer |
| 7:11:08 pm | next stop Clark/Lake | next stop Ashland (Orange) |
| 7:12:08 pm | next stop Washington/Wabash | next stop Ashland (Orange) |
| 7:13:08 pm | next stop Washington/Wabash | next stop Halsted (Orange) |
| 7:14:08 pm | next stop Adams/Wabash | next stop Halsted (Orange) |
| 7:15:09 pm | next stop Roosevelt | next stop Roosevelt |
| 7:16:09 pm | next stop Roosevelt | next stop Roosevelt |
| 7:17:09 pm | next stop Roosevelt | next stop Roosevelt |
| 7:18:09 pm | next stop Halsted (Orange) | next stop Roosevelt |
| 7:19:09 pm | next stop Halsted (Orange) | next stop Roosevelt |
Showing 16 of 25 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-orange-gap-69999.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.