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cta2402.jpg
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Work motor 2401-2402 is in the Skokie
Shops yard in August 1999. The cars are easily
differentiated from the normal 2400-series
brothers by the red and white candy striping on the ends and
the red-white-red reflective stripe on the sides below the
window line. (Photo by Graham
Garfield) |
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cta2408.jpg
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When the Green
Line reopened in 1996, all work motor-capable 2400s
were assigned to that line. With its distinctive red and
white reflectorized end and side striping, car 2408 leads a
four-car train heading west at Wells & Lake, just beyond
Tower 18. (Photo by Art Peterson) |
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cta2415.jpg
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Car 2415 trails a four-car train of work motors eastbound
between Clinton
and Canal on the Lake Street "L". The new girder bridge
crosses the North Western's (now Union Pacific's) Metra
tracks into the Ogilvie Transportation Center, replacing the
old truss bridge familiar to generations of "L" riders. The
train is bound for the Loop and Ashland/63.
(Photo by Roy G. Benedict) |
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Car 2457 leads a Jackson Park-Howard "B" train of other
2400s past Addison
station on November 1, 1980. The Wrigley Field scoreboard is
poking above the buildings in the upper left corner. In
1995, the car was sent to Delaware for repair for fire
damage the car suffered. (Photo by Roy G.
Benedict) |
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cta2466.jpg
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Unit 2465-2466 sits in the Skokie
Shops yard in August 1999. The car had suffered
significant damage and needed repairs, but may not reenter
service unless it's needed to cover schedules.
(Photo by Graham Garfield) |
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cta2487.jpg
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This view shows car 2487 leading an six-car Green Line
train at Clark/Lake
station on February 26, 1999. (Photo by Sean
Gash) |
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cta2401.jpg
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During their first months on the system, cars 2401-2402
(the prototypes for the 2400-series)
spent time on almost every line "stretching their legs" so
to speak. Here, car 2401 brings up the rear of a 4-car train
of 2400s at Armitage
on October 31, 1976. (Photo by Art Peterson,
Collection of Joe Testagrose) |
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cta2401b.jpg
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Being tested around the system, cars 2401-2402 spent some
time on the North-South Route. Here, car 2401 leads a
southbound train at Howard
on September 22, 1976. Note the "Sprit of Chicago"
destination sign. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn,
Collection of Joe Testagrose) |
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Boeing conducted extensive testing on the 2400s
before they left the plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Car 2402 is seen there on July 30, 1976.
(Photo by Gerald H. Landau, Collection of
Joe Testagrose) |
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Since the Boeing-Vertol test track didn't have a third
rail, they had to attach portable pantographs to the 2400-series cars when they
tested them at the plant. Car 2402 is seen here -- without
its mate and displaying a Congress-Milwaukee All-Stop sign
-- in August of 1976, shortly before being shipped to
Chicago. (Photo by Gerald H. Landau,
Collection of Joe Testagrose) |