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27th Street is a station on Metra's Electric District line. The station is the least used Metra station, and possibly one of the least used train stations in the midwestern US.  History Not much is known about the original history of the station, though it's assumed to have first been built sometime around the 1870s. On October 30th, 1972, the 1972 Chicago Rail Crash happened at this station, the worst crash in all of Chicago's history, with 45 deaths and 322 injuries.  The station was originally made to serve Michael Reese Hospital, with the hospital having been directly connected to 27th Street station. Michael Reese Hospital went out of business in 2008, and was demolished. Chicago tried to build an Olympic Village at the site of the former hospital for the 2016 Olympic Games, but this failed. This is because of two important factors: staunch opposition from residents, and radioactive waste buried between the former hospital and the station, and a...

Coatesville (COT) is an Amtrak train station located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, with service from Amtrak's Keystone Service line. Coatesville is a real gem, one of the best stati- oh why should I sugarcoat the truth or lie? Coatesville is absolutely horrible . This is possibly one of the worst stations I have ever reviewed. It's up there with beauties such as Eddington and North Broad .  History Postcard from 1920 But first, a history lesson. Coatesville started out in the 1830s, a station on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, which later became the PRR. This was on the line called the "Main Line" by the PRR. The building was built in 1868, and now lays disused. The history of this station goes on the same as the line itself, for a long while. Even as the car became more popular, COT still was doing well as a station as Coatesville as a whole was a city anchored on steel, something that employed the city well since the late 1700s. Ove...