If one is looking to find a schedule for the Chicago Metra, one can find this information on the Chicago Metra website. When on the homepage, one can click on the link for "Maps and Schedules" and will be taken to the page of the site that offers this information.
No. Amtrak is a national passenger train company, but Metra is only a Chicago commuter rail service.
One can find train routes in Chicago online on websites, such as Transit Chicago, CBS Chicago and Metra Rail. The information about train routes is updated daily.
To "take a train ride" is to travel by rail from one place to another.
One could go to ride on an old steam train from several different places. Some of the places in which one can go to ride on an old steam train are: museums, and rail stations.
Metra does not operate to Peoria. The most southern stations are Joliet on the Metra Rock Island, University Park on the Metra Electric, and Manhattan on the South West. At this time, there is no passenger train service of any kind to Peoria. Peoria Charter Coach company has scheduled daily bus service from O'Hare and Midway to Peoria (regular bus service, not charter service). Also Burlington Trailways operates buses to Peoria.
http://metrarail.com/Sched/cnw_nw/cnw_nw.shtml This site shows you metra trains to and from Chicago on the Union Pacific District Northwest line.
Train Ride was created in 2005.
Ride This Train was created in 1960-09.
The duration of Train Ride is 1.55 hours.
I too have thought for years that this was Boxcar Willie and that the song was saying " ride the train, ride the train, everywhere I go I ride the train, riding in a Boxcar Willie train." Boy was I wrong. The name of the song is Ride the Train. It is by the group Alabama originally and the lyrics are " ride the train, ride the train, riding in a boxcar when it rains." Maybe this will help you. It as been bugging me forever. I still don't think the version I heard was the Alabama version though. It sure does sound different when you listen to it on youtube.
They ride on tracks.