Fired up: Metra lights train tracks on fire to keep rails from freezing in Chicago

During freezing Chicago winters, Metra lights its tracks on fire to keep trains moving.

CHICAGO -- During cold Chicago winters, the Metra will light its tracks on fire to keep the trains moving!

This allows the switch points to be thrown and reversed so that trains can traverse from one track to the next. "Something goes wrong every day. So, depending on the time of the day, like now -- this is rush hour, a glitch or something happening with the trains moving can impact at least 10 trains within five minutes. So, you can imagine, that you're looking at 200-300 people on a train. So, that's thousands of people within five minutes," said Signal Supervisor, Alonzo Smith.

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