Long wait · Chicago · Sat Oct 10
22 min with no Orange Line train
At Halsted (Orange), toward Midway, between 7:21 pm and 7:43 pm. The schedule called for a train every 10 min.
- Line
- Orange Line
- Station
- Halsted (Orange) (station 41130)
- Direction
- toward Midway
- Train before
- run 719, passed 7:21:39 pm
- Train after
- run 713, passed 7:43:39 pm
- Gap
- 22 min (1320 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 10 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Halsted (Orange) toward Midway. 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 Halsted (Orange) when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Run 719 (before) | Run 713 (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:20:09 pm | next stop Halsted (Orange) | next stop Roosevelt |
| 7:21:09 pm | next stop Halsted (Orange) | next stop Roosevelt |
| 7:22:09 pm | next stop Ashland (Orange) | next stop Harold Washington Library-State/Van Buren |
| 7:23:09 pm | next stop Ashland (Orange) | next stop Harold Washington Library-State/Van Buren |
| 7:24:09 pm | next stop Ashland (Orange) | next stop LaSalle/Van Buren |
| 7:25:09 pm | next stop 35th/Archer | next stop LaSalle/Van Buren |
| 7:26:09 pm | next stop 35th/Archer | next stop LaSalle/Van Buren |
| 7:27:09 pm | next stop Western (Orange) | next stop Quincy |
| 7:28:09 pm | next stop Western (Orange) | next stop Washington/Wells |
| 7:29:09 pm | next stop Western (Orange) | next stop Clark/Lake |
| 7:30:09 pm | next stop Western (Orange) | next stop Clark/Lake |
| 7:31:09 pm | next stop Western (Orange) | next stop Clark/Lake |
| 7:32:09 pm | next stop Kedzie (Orange) | next stop Washington/Wabash |
| 7:33:09 pm | next stop Kedzie (Orange) | next stop Washington/Wabash |
| 7:34:09 pm | next stop Pulaski (Orange) | next stop Adams/Wabash |
| 7:35:09 pm | next stop Pulaski (Orange) | next stop Roosevelt |
Showing 16 of 26 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-orange-gap-71019.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.