Airport Train Station Expansion Underway

A second platform is being added to Milwaukee Airport Rail Station (MARS), one of a handful of improvements necessary to increase the frequency of Amtrak Hiawatha Service trains between Milwaukee and Chicago.

The expanded station will offer a key operational efficiency: trains will be able to stop on either of the two tracks. The 14 trains per day that currently stop at the station can only do so on the eastern track. That single-side stopping creates an operational bottleneck when scheduling the faster passenger trains around slower, longer freight trains.