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| Address | 1065 Gage Street Winnetka, Illinois 60093 |
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| Connections | Pace Bus Green Bay Trail |
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1943 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Union Pacific Railroad | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | D | ||||||||||
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Hubbard Woods is a station on Metra's Union Pacific/North Line located in Winnetka, Illinois. Hubbard Woods is located at 1065 Gage St. Hubbard Woods is 17.7 miles (28.5 km) away from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago, the southern terminus of the Union Pacific/North Line.[1] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Hubbard Woods is in Zone D.
Hubbard Woods consists of a station house and two platforms which serve two tracks. The station house is located at ground level and is open from 5:15 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. The platforms at Hubbard Woods are located in a below-grade trench. The platforms are accessible from Scott Avenue as well as a bridge adjacent to the station house. Parking is available at Hubbard Woods. The Green Bay Trail, a hiking and bicycle trail, runs parallel to the train tracks at Hubbard Woods and is accessible from the platforms.
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Hubbard Woods and the other two Metra stations were built by the former Chicago and North Western Railway. These stations in Winnetka were originally built at grade level like all other Union Pacific/North Line stations north of Evanston Central Street. However, the grade crossings were not very safe, and accidents at railroad crossings resulted in twenty-nine deaths between 1912 and 1937. After two more women were hit by a train at the Pine Street crossing and died in October 1937, the community of Winnetka demanded that something be done about the railroad crossings. It was decided that the railroad tracks would be lowered into a below-grade trench to eliminate street crossings. The project which lowered the tracks was partly funded by the Public Works Administration and was completed in 1943 after five years of work.[2] Hubbard Woods and Winnetka stations are located in the trench, and Indian Hill is an elevated station just south of the trench. The tracks of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad interurban line were also relocated at this time and tracks were shared for periods during construction.
The Hubbard Woods Metra station is featured in the 1990 blockbuster comedy Home Alone. The scene where Kevin McCallister runs from the police officer after accidentally stealing a toothbrush from the pharmacy has Kevin running from the Hubbard Woods Pharmacy (which is now Panera Bread), across the street (Green Bay Road, Winnetka), through the park, passing right by the Hubbard Woods station, and running across the pedestrian bridge which crosses the railroad tracks.[3][4] Kevin loses the cop in the park when he slides under the patrons who are using the park as an ice skating rink. The reason Kevin accidentally stole the toothbrush is because while he was in the pharmacy, Kevin got scared when he saw his next door neighbor, Old Man Marley, who was rumored to be a snow-shovel murderer by his older brother Buzz McCallister. Later in the movie, it turns out that the rumors are false.