What country am I in again?

So, I thought we'd left Italy. The train situation today is reminiscent of Italian trains, however...

Today Metra is running on a special holiday schedule. I'd picked up a copy of it, figured out that the train I normally take in was not operating, and planned to get on an earlier train. I got up this morning, cut my workout a few minutes short, and busted my butt to get out of the house by 6:45am to be early for the 7:06 train. Got to the station at 6:58am. The 7:06 didn't come. Neither did the next train (7:29). Everyone was a little mad - even the conductor waiting on the platform with us hadn't been kept up to speed. Finally, the 7:40am train shows up, and does stop, but on a different track, so the conductor had to stop the train, back up, and let everyone cross. Ha!