Elgin Derailment Causes Metra Delay

Metra reports its Milwaukee District/West Line trains will run about 20 minutes late this morning thanks to a derailment Sunday.  The trains delayed while crews perform track repairs at the derailment site will be morning inbound trains 2222 and 2226 and outbound trains 2201 and 2203.

Eight freight cars carrying cable and cornstarch of a 71-car westbound train jumped the Canadian Pacific tracks near the Elgin sewerage plant Sunday afternoon damaging the rails. A CP spokesman said the cause of the derailment wasn't known yet.