29th Street Yard (St. Louis MetroLink)

Coordinates: 38°37′12.37″N 90°07′04.32″W / 38.6201028°N 90.1178667°W / 38.6201028; -90.1178667

The 29th Street Yard (also known as Jackie Joyner-Kersee Yard) is a rail yard for the St. Louis MetroLink light rail system in Greater St. Louis.

The yard sits east of East St. Louis, Illinois. It is one of two MetroLink railyards that maintain the SD-400s and the SD-460s in Greater St. Louis. It opened in 2001 with the St. Clair County Extension. On October 27, 2009, Metro opened a new paint booth facility.

External links

MetroLink (St. Louis)

Lines	Red Line Blue Line

Infrastructure	Eads Bridge List of MetroLink stations

Rolling Stock	Siemens SD-400 Siemens SD-460

Rail yards	Ewing Yard 29th Street Yard

Connections	Forest Park–DeBaliviere Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center Lambert–St. Louis International Airport

Connecting services	MetroBus Madison County Transit St. Charles Area Transit Metro Call-A-Ride Delmar Loop Trolley

Proposed expansions	Daniel Boone Corridor MetroNorth Corridor MetroSouth Corridor NorthWest Connector NorthSide Corridor SouthSide Corridor St. Charles Corridor SouthWest Corridor MidAmerica Extension Phase 3 Madison County Corridors

Operators	Metro Transit (Bi-State Development Agency) St. Clair County Transit District

Italic denote lines or services which are proposed and planned.

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