Howard Yard

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Howard Yard
Howard Yard, taken from Howard station facing North in 2003
General information
Location	1825 W. Juneway Terrace Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	42°1′20.3″N 87°40′32.2″W / 42.022306°N 87.675611°W / 42.022306; -87.675611
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	North Side main line
History
Opened	1919; 106 years ago (1919)

The Howard Yard is a CTA rail yard in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, on the border with Evanston, Illinois. It is the largest rail yard of the CTA,^[1] and stores cars from the Yellow, Red, and Purple Lines of the Chicago Transit Authority.

Currently, 5000-series railcars are stored here.^[2] It is adjacent to Howard station.

The yard was opened in 1919^[3] and gradually replaced the functions of Wilson Yard, until the latter was destroyed by fire in 1996.^[3] The yard was rebuilt between 1991 and 1993.^[4]

A train derailed in the yard in 1990, disrupting rail traffic to Evanston.^[5] In 2023, a Yellow Line train collided with a CTA snowplow on tracks adjacent to the yard.^[6]