List of Metro Transit (St. Louis) yards and depots

Metro Transit, the public transit operator in the Greater St. Louis area, operates two rail yards for the MetroLink light rail system, four bus depots for the MetroBus and Metro Call-A-Ride systems, and one streetcar barn for the Loop Trolley.

Ewing Yard with some SD-400 and SD-460 cars

Rail facilities
Ewing Yard seen from Jefferson Avenue

Metro operates two rail yards that maintain its SD-400 and SD-460 light rail vehicles and one streetcar barn for the Loop Trolley:

Ewing Yard

Ewing Yard (also known as Jefferson Avenue Yard) is located near downtown St. Louis. It is bounded by Jefferson Avenue to the west, Scott Avenue to the north, Ewing Avenue to the east, and Terminal Railroad right-of-way to the south.

The yard opened in 1993. It was built on a former railroad storage and maintenance facility that served Union Station until it closed in 1978.[1]

29th Street Yard

29th Street Yard (also known as Jackie Joyner-Kersee Yard) is located in East St. Louis, Illinois.

The yard opened in 2001 with the St. Clair County MetroLink extension. It sits on reclaimed industrial property along abandoned right-of-way from the St. Louis and O'Fallon Railway.[2] On October 27, 2009, Metro opened a paint booth at the facility at a cost of $1.1 million.[3]

Loop Trolley Barn

The Loop Trolley maintains its three streetcars at 5875 Delmar Boulevard, in a building that had been Delmar High School until 1980.[4][5]

Bus depots

Metro Transit operates four garages for MetroBus:[6]

Brentwood Garage

The Brentwood garage, located in central St. Louis County, charges and maintains electric buses after service hours.[7]

Central Garage

Metro's Central garage, located near downtown St. Louis, also houses one of its primary dispatch centers and is the main facility for Metro's Call-A-Ride service. It sits on the former site of the Red Stocking Baseball Park.

DeBaliviere Garage

The DeBaliviere garage is a former outdoor streetcar yard that was covered and converted for use by buses sometime after the Bi-State Development Agency ended streetcar service in the St. Louis area in 1966.[8] It also has after-hours charging stations for electric buses.[9]

Illinois Garage

The Illinois garage is roughly 1.4 miles (2.3 km) from the 29th Street rail yard in East St. Louis. It serves buses that run on routes sponsored by St. Clair County Transit District.

See also

References
  1. "Final Environmental Impact Statement: St. Louis Metro Link Project" (PDF). US Department of Transportation. p. 2-26. Archived from the original on September 1, 1997.
  2. "Our History". www.altonsouthern.com. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  3. "Capital Projects Update: Illinois Paint Booth | NextStop STL | Saint Louis, Missouri". Nextstopstl.org. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  4. Thorsen, Leah (March 24, 2017). "Loop Trolley testing to start early Sunday". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  5. "Worldwide Review [regular news section]". Tramways & Urban Transit. UK: Light Rail Transit Association. April 2017. p. 152. ISSN 1460-8324.
  6. "System Addresses". Metro Transit – Saint Louis. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  7. "Electric Buses". Metro Transit – Saint Louis. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  8. "History". Metro Transit – Saint Louis. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
  9. Lindsey (2022-03-23). "Metro Transit Awarded $4M Grant to Expand Electric Bus Program". Metro Transit – Saint Louis. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
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