Kenosha station

Commuter rail station in Kenosha, Wisconsin

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Kenosha

Station entrance

General information
Location| 5414 13th Avenue
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Coordinates| 42°35′09″N 87°49′33″W﻿ / ﻿42.5859°N 87.8258°W﻿ / 42.5859; -87.8258
Owned by| Union Pacific
Platforms| 1 island platform
Tracks| 4
Connections|  Kenosha Streetcar
Kenosha Area Transit
Construction
Structure type| Elevated
Parking| Yes
Accessible| Yes
Other information
Fare zone| 4
History
Opened| 1855
Rebuilt| 2004–2006
Passengers
2018| 345 (avg. weekday)[1] 25%
Rank| 135 out of 236[1]
Services
| Preceding station  |  Metra | Following station

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Terminus |  | Union Pacific North |  | Winthrop Harbor

toward Ogilvie

Preceding station  | Kenosha Area Transit | Following station
8th Ave.

One-way operation

|  | Kenosha Streetcar

transfer at 54th St.

|  | 56th St.

Next counter-clockwise

Former services

| Preceding station  | Chicago and North Western Railway | Following station

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Racine

toward Minneapolis

|  | Chicago – Minneapolis via Milwaukee |  | Waukegan

toward Chicago

Racine

toward Milwaukee

|  | Milwaukee Division |  | Winthrop Harbor

toward Chicago

Pleasant Prairie

toward Rockford

|  | KD Line

Closed 1939

|  | Terminus

Track layout

Legend

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| UP Kenosha Subdivision

continues north

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UP-N ends

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|  | 54th St.
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|  | Kenosha Streetcar
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| 55th St.

13th Ave.

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UP-N south to Ogilvie

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Location

Kenosha is a railroad station in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States, served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line. It is the northern terminus of the line, which runs south to the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago. Kenosha is the only Metra station outside of Illinois, and is 51.6 miles (83.0 km) from Ogilvie Transportation Center. Because it is located outside the RTA's jurisdiction, the service to the station is partially subsidized by the city of Kenosha. It is the northernmost station of the entire Metra system, making it the most northern station in the entire RTA network. As of 2018, Kenosha is the 135th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 345 weekday boardings.[1]

It is the only passenger station in Kenosha County, since Amtrak's closest station is in Sturtevant.

The station is linked to Kenosha's streetcar line, which stops on the far side of the station's parking lot.

As of February 16, 2024, Kenosha is served by twelve trains (six in each direction) on weekdays, by twelve trains (five inbound, seven outbound) on Saturdays, and by six trains (three in each direction) on Sundays and holidays. There is a small coach yard at Kenosha where trainsets are stored overnight and on weekends as well as a Union Pacific maintenance facility.

## History

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Kenosha station platform

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The station was opened in 1855 by the Chicago and Milwaukee Railway and was acquired by the Chicago and North Western Railway in 1869. The station served many C&NW trains such as the Twin Cities 400, Flambeau 400, Shoreland 400, Valley 400, and Peninsula 400. The last intercity passenger train stopped in Kenosha in 1971; since then it has only been used for commuter services. Other commuter services extended from Chicago into Wisconsin but were eventually discontinued. The KD Line ran from Kenosha to Harvard and closed in 1939. The Northwest Line had a branch to Williams Bay that was cut back to Lake Geneva in 1966 and discontinued north of the state line in 1975. The Milwaukee Road had commuter service to Walworth until 1982 when it was cut back to Fox Lake.

Though Kenosha Station pre-dates the Civil War, it was restored in the period between 2004 and 2006. Metra does not have a ticket office there, and the waiting room serves as dining area for a fast food restaurant.

The station has been chosen as the southern terminus of various forms of the proposed Kenosha–Racine–Milwaukee regional rail service, first in the KRM Commuter Link proposal from 2010 (with cross-platform transfers to Metra),[2] then later in the Wisconsin Transit & Realty proposal from 2022.[3]

## Transit connections

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* Kenosha Area Transit
* Kenosha Streetcar
* Coach USA (Wisconsin Coach Lines) - Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee Route

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). Metra. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 26, 2019.
2. ^ "Request to Initiate Preliminary Engineering" (PDF). Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. Southeastern Regional Transit Authority. June 24, 2010. p. 1-2. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
3. ^ Quirmbach, Chuck (August 22, 2022). "Where passenger rail may be headed in Wisconsin—eventually". WUWM. Retrieved December 11, 2023.

## External links

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* Metra - Kenosha station
* Kenosha and its train station - 150 years of mutual gain continue (TrainWeb)
* Station House from Google Maps Street View

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Heritage Corridor|

* Union Station
* Glenn (closed)
* Summit
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* 5th Street (closed)
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Metra Electric|

* Millennium Station
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| South Chicago Branch|

* Stony Island
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* Cheltenham
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Blue Island Branch|

* State Street
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* Burr Oak
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Milwaukee District
North|

* Union Station
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* Healy
* Grayland
* Mayfair
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* Edgebrook
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* Northbrook
* Lake Cook Road
* Deerfield
* Lake Forest
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* Prairie Crossing
* Grayslake
* Round Lake
* Long Lake
* Ingleside
* Fox Lake

Milwaukee District
West|

* Union Station
* Western Avenue
* Hermosa (closed)
* Grand/Cicero
* Cragin (closed)
* Hanson Park
* Galewood
* Mars
* Mont Clare
* Elmwood Park
* River Grove
* Franklin Park
* Mannheim
* Bensenville
* Wood Dale
* Itasca
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* Roselle
* Schaumburg
* Hanover Park
* Bartlett
* National Street
* Elgin
* Big Timber Road

| Rockford Intercity Passenger Rail|

* Huntley (future)
* Belvidere (future)
* Rockford (future)

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North Central Service|

* Union Station
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* River Grove
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* Prospect Heights
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* Mundelein
* Prairie Crossing
* Washington Street
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* Lake Villa
* Antioch

Rock Island|

* LaSalle Street
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* Auburn Park (closed; future)
* Gresham
* 95th Street–Longwood
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* 103rd Street–Washington Heights
* Blue Island–Vermont Street
* Robbins
* Midlothian
* Oak Forest
* Tinley Park
* Tinley Park–80th Avenue
* Hickory Creek
* Mokena
* New Lenox
* Joliet

| Beverly Branch|

* Brainerd
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* 95th Street–Beverly Hills
* 99th Street–Beverly Hills
* 103rd Street–Beverly Hills
* 107th Street–Beverly Hills
* 111th Street–Morgan Park
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* 119th Street
* 123rd Street
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SouthWest Service|

* Union Station
* Wrightwood
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* Oak Lawn
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* Orland Park 179th Street
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Union Pacific
North|

* Ogilvie
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* Abbott's Platform (closed)
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* Kenosha

Union Pacific
Northwest|

* Ogilvie
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* Edison Park
* Park Ridge
* Dee Road
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* Mount Prospect
* Arlington Heights
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* Cary
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* Crystal Lake
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| McHenry Branch|

* McHenry

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Union Pacific West|

* Ogilvie
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