Fox Lake (Metra station)

Fox Lake
A Metra F40C locomotive stops at Fox Lake Station
Location	Nippersink Boulevard at Grand Avenue Fox Lake, Illinois
Coordinates	42°23′54″N 88°10′56″W / 42.3984°N 88.1823°W / 42.3984; -88.1823Coordinates: 42°23′54″N 88°10′56″W / 42.3984°N 88.1823°W / 42.3984; -88.1823
Owned by	Village of Fox Lake
Line(s)	Milwaukee District North
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	3
Connections	Pace Buses
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes (Open sheltered bicycle rack)
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	J
History
Opened	1902
Rebuilt	2001
Services
Preceding station   Metra   Following station Terminus Milwaukee District North Ingleside toward Chicago Union Station

Fox Lake is a station on Metra's Milwaukee District/North Line in Fox Lake, Illinois. The station is located on Nippersink Boulevard at Grand Avenue (IL 132), is 49.5 miles (79.7 km) away from Union Station, the southern terminus of the line, and serves commuters between Union Station and Fox Lake, Illinois. The station is the northern terminus of the Milwaukee District/North Line. Until 1982 commuter trains continued to Walworth, Wisconsin and until the creation of Amtrak in 1971, inter-city trains like the Varsity and the Sioux, both operated by the Milwaukee Road, connected Fox Lake with Janesville, Madison, and Rapid City.

Fox Lake consists of a single platform serving in-service Metra trains. Two other tracks exist at the station, but they're only used for locomotives that pull out of the yard to switch onto the mainline. A coach yard used to store trains during off-peak hours and overnight is located just east of the station. The tracks north of Fox Lake are owned by Wisconsin and Southern Railroad. The tracks north of Fox Lake see freight traffic only. From 2000 to 2001, Amtrak ran the Lake Country Limited over the WSOR trackage. This service did not stop in Fox Lake and was discontinued due to low ridership and bad conditions of the tracks north of Fox Lake.

Pace