{"id":362866,"date":"2026-09-30T23:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/chicago-metra-calls-its-new-battery-electric-locomotive-a-first-of-its-kind\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T23:04:13","slug":"chicago-metra-calls-its-new-battery-electric-locomotive-a-first-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/chicago-metra-calls-its-new-battery-electric-locomotive-a-first-of-its-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Metra calls its new battery-electric locomotive a first of its kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/09\/chicago-metra-calls-its-new-battery-electric-locomotive-a-first-of-its-kind.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Metra\u2019s diesel-engined commuter trains are familiar sights in and around Chicago, and so is the smell of spent diesel that surrounds them \u2013 but a new battery-electric FLIRT locomotive from Stadler is about to change all that, and it\u2019s set to arrive this week. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/09\/30\/chicago-metra-calls-its-new-battery-electric-locomotive-a-first-of-its-kind\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/chicago-metra-calls-its-new-battery-electric-locomotive-a-first-of-its-kind\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":362867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}