Long wait · Chicago · Sat Oct 10
40 min with no Orange Line train
At Ashland (Orange), toward Adams/Wabash, between 11:47 pm and 12:28 am. The schedule called for a train every 15 min.
- Line
- Orange Line
- Station
- Ashland (Orange) (station 41060)
- Direction
- toward Adams/Wabash
- Train before
- run 719, passed 11:47:39 pm
- Train after
- run 717, passed 12:28:09 am
- Gap
- 40 min (2430 s)
- Scheduled gap
- 15 min
- Collector
- running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Ashland (Orange) 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 Ashland (Orange) when its next stop moves past it.
| Snapshot | Run 719 (before) | Run 717 (after) |
|---|---|---|
| 11:46:09 pm | next stop Ashland (Orange) | next stop Ashland (Orange) |
| 11:49:09 pm | next stop Halsted (Orange) | next stop Western (Orange) |
| 11:52:09 pm | next stop Roosevelt | next stop Western (Orange) |
| 11:55:09 pm | next stop Harold Washington Library-State/Van Buren | next stop Kedzie (Orange) |
| 11:58:09 pm | next stop LaSalle/Van Buren | next stop Pulaski (Orange) |
| 12:01:09 am | next stop Clark/Lake | next stop Midway |
| 12:04:09 am | next stop Washington/Wabash | not in the feed |
| 12:07:09 am | next stop Adams/Wabash | not in the feed |
| 12:10:09 am | next stop Roosevelt | not in the feed |
| 12:13:09 am | next stop Halsted (Orange) | not in the feed |
| 12:16:09 am | next stop Ashland (Orange) | next stop Pulaski (Orange) |
| 12:19:09 am | next stop Western (Orange) | next stop Kedzie (Orange) |
| 12:22:09 am | next stop Western (Orange) | next stop 35th/Archer |
| 12:25:09 am | next stop Kedzie (Orange) | next stop 35th/Archer |
| 12:28:09 am | next stop Pulaski (Orange) | not in the feed |
Showing 15 of 45 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-orange-gap-88089.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.