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4000-series car 4436 is
seen here preserved at the Connecticut
Trolley Museum in Warehouse Point, Connecticut on July
30, 2000. (Photo by Frank
Hicks) |
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Work car S-1, a rail grinding train, was originally 4000-series car 4358. The
car was "demotored" and converted in June 1972 and in 1976
was equipped to operate with 6000-series
work motors (as it is paired with 6159 here) and paired with
S-2 (seen to the left), a former weed killing car.
(Photo by James Raymond) |
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Cincinnati-built car 4400 is part of a two-car Lake "B"
train at Madison
& Wells station on the Inner Loop in May,
1964. (Photo by Jerry Appleman) |
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Car 4451 is at the high level platform at Blackhawk
Forest Preserve at the Fox
River Trolley Museum on June 9, 2002, the first day of
operations for the new extension. The shelter based on that
formally at Coleman Grove is on the left.
(Photo by Graham Garfield) |
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4000-series car 4451 is
berthed at the new high level platform at Blackhawk, with
its poles repositioned for the return trip back to the
Fox River Trolley
Museum at Castlemuir. Note the reproduction old-style
station name sign on the platform. (Photo by
Graham Garfield) |
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CTA Historic Cars
4271-4272 head west through Evanston in the open-cut portion of the Yellow Line on the final trip for
the 2002 Third Rail Round-Up on July 13, 2002 to tie up a
day's fan trip operation at the Skokie Shops. (Photo by David Harrison) |
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The CTA's Historic
Cars travel along the Skokie Swift on July 13, 2002. With
the authority's planned conversion of the Yellow Line from
overhead to third rail, this scene may become impossible in
the next couple years. (Photo by David
Harrison) |
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The final railfan trip of the day for the 2002 Third Rail
Round-Up on July 13, 2002 went from Skokie
Shops to Dempster
to Howard and
return to the Shops
where the train was "laid up". Or in the words of
CTA Rail Operations
General Manager John Blum, where "it sleeps."
(Photo by David Harrison) |
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cta4271-72@rodeo02d.jpg
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CTA Historic Cars
4271-4272 -- seen here at Skokie
Shops for the 2002 Third Rail Round-Up on July 13, 2002
-- treated none other than the city's mayor himself, Richard
M. Daley, to a ride during opening ceremonies of the Green
Line's Conservatory
station a year ago before. (Photo by David
Harrison) |
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2002 Third Rail Rodeo guests and participants, along with
their families, could take a rail fan trip between Skokie
Shops and Howard
and experience "Roaring Twenties" technology including
incandescent bulbs, porcelain strap hangers, a communication
cord, and open windows on July 13, 2002.
(Photo by David Harrison) |
