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While Orange Line was truncated at Roosevelt
over Memorial Day weekend 2003 due to Harrison Curve
reconstruction, there would've been no service on the Inner
Loop. To compensate for this and aid in circulation of
passengers around the Loop, a shuttle was operated all
weekend with Orange Line equipment, as seen on Library
on May 26, 2003, with car 3378 leading the 4-car consist. To
see a close-up of the sign on the chains, click here.
(Photos by Graham Garfield)
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The Illinois Department of Health wrapped six cars as part
of an antismoking campaign, for which they have also bought
a lot of station ad space. In each two-car set, one is
pinkish salmon colored (representing a healthy lung) and the
other is a light gray (representing a diseased one). The
cars carry antismoking messages on the sides. Anti-smoking
cars 3201-02 are at Wellington
here, on October 8, 2002. (Photo by Graham
Garfield)
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The CTA's first
Halloween Train, which carried the title "Chicagoween", was
the first ad wrap to be for internal
CTA purposes rather
than for a private advertiser. Only the #1 front end of 3254
was wrapped, with the rest of the car exterior left "naked".
The front had a yellow background with black shapes and
shading that created the appearance of leaves, branches, and
other "spooky" foliage. Centered on the front door was an
orange "jack-o'-lantern" pumpkin. The wrap, seen here on the
Loop in October 1998, was very short-lived, having
been removed only a month after being applied.
(Photo by John F. Kuczaj)
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The Midway
Shops are capable of doing more heavy overhaul work than
most others on the system, besides Skokie
Shops. As such, the Brown Line 3200-series
cars are being cycled on and off the Orange Line ten at a
time as both lines' units are put through their quarter-life
"C" level rehab. Car 3360 is on Track A, which also has the
shops' car washing unit (visible in the background) in
Midway
Shops, looking south on April 18, 2003.
(Photo by Graham Garfield)
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During the midday lull, the cars not needed after rush hour
are parked in Midway
Yard among those that make up the line's spare ratio.
Looking north on April 18, 2003, an array of Orange Line trains are parked in the yard, with one set of the line's
Target advertisement wrap cars on the right. (Photo by Graham Garfield)
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The Loop Tour Train, headed by car 3309, heads south to the
Loop on Saturday, May 24, 2003 to begin a day of tours, seen
looking down from Clark
Tower. Although the cars are assigned to the Orange Line and are usually stored at Midway
Yard, they were stabled at Kimball
Yard that weekend on account of the Orange Line being
cut off from the Loop as a result of Harrison Curve
reconstruction. (Photo by John
Allen)
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As ridership on the Brown Line increased in the mid-1990s
and more cars were needed to cover the service, some 3200-series cars were
taken off the Yellow Line, subtracted from the spare ratio,
and reassigned to the Ravenswood. Car 3454, one of six cars
(3451-3456) that had their pans removed when reassigned to
the Brown Line but still carry the roof boards for them, is
at Sedgwick on
July 2, 2002. (Photo by Graham
Garfield)
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The Central Electric
Railfans Association conducted a trip over Labor Day
weekend 2000. The last day featured an inspection tour using
a train consisting of four 3200-series
Skokie cars and flat car S-601. Pan-equipped car 3443 is
pulling into the out-of-service Wilson
platform on Track 1, the southbound express track, on
September 3, 2000 as CERA
members look around a take photos. Note the
"Express" sign on the
destination board. (Photo by Mike
Farrell)
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As the Yellow
Line travels through Evanston, it is in open cut until
reaching the southwest corner of the city, when it travels
on an elevated sloped embankment. Car 3448 is leading a
two-car train -- typical for the Swift -- speeding along on
its way to Skokie
as it passes Dodge Avenue, looking southeast on January 25,
2002. (Photo by Mike Farrell)
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The portion of the Yellow Line that runs at-grade off
overhead catenary is perhaps one of the best living memories
of the old North Shore Line interurban that once shared
these tracks with the "L". Unfortunately, the frequent grade
crossings along this portion sometimes cause problems as
trains fly back and forth at high speeds. Car 3449 is
leading a southbound Yellow Line train crossing Searle
Parkway on January 25, 2002. (Photo by Mike
Farrell)
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