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cta4000s@Roscoe.jpg
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Two Ravenswood trains -- an "A" train heading toward
downtown on the left and a "B" train heading to Kimball
on the right -- pass each other at Roscoe, just north of
where the Ravenswood branch leaves the main line, in 1963.
Center-door 4000s like
these provided most of the service on the branch at this
time. (Photo by Jim Northcutt, from the
Illinois Railway Museum Collection, courtesy of Peter
Vesic)
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cta4422.jpg
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Car 4422 is the the middle of a North-South express train
bound for Howard
Street, stopped at the University
station on the Jackson Park branch, probably circa 1940.
4422 is part of a mixed consist, with other steel 4000s
(as seen on the left) and an 1100-series ex-Northwestern
wood trailer (on the right). Following a series of
disastrous accidents involving a mix of wood and steel cars,
the practice of mixed consists was discontinued.
(Photo by Sidney Silleck, Jr, from the
Michael Leighton Collection)
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cta4271-72@rodeo03.jpg
(127k)
Operating on the occasion of the 2003 Rail Rodeo, Historic
Cars 4271-72 pass around Oakton Curve on the Yellow Line on
July 12 2003. The cars made five trips in the morning and
early afternoon between Skokie
Shops and Howard,
and the final two trips were made "under the wire" between
Skokie
and Dempster
station. (Screenshot from video by David
Harrison)
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cta4315.jpg
(80k)
Cincinnati-built car 4315 is leading a two-car westbound
Lake "B" train as it passes Hamlin
Yard on its way to Harlem
in April 1964. The pole-equipped 4000-series
cars were once necessary on Lake because of the ground-level
section of the line, but were made superfluous just a few
years later when the section through Oak Park was elevated.
Shortly after this photo, these cars were reassigned to the
Evanston (where overhead as still used) and Ravenswood lines
as new 2000s were assigned
to Lake. (Photo by Jerry
Appleman)
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cta4410c.jpg
(92k)
A four-car train of "Plushie" 4000s
-- an Evanston mainstay for the last 15 years or so of the
cars' lives -- led by car 4410 approach Clark
& Lake on their way around the Loop before heading
back to Evanston on June 8, 1964. The train is operating
counterclockwise on the Outer Loop here, the opposite of how
it operates today. (Photo by Jerry
Appleman)
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cta4000s@HamlinYard.jpg
(164k)
A six-car train of Plushie 4000s
is along side the Carhouse in Hamlin
Yard during a fantrip in June 1968. At this point, the
yard and shop had been closed for about a year, but rather
than demolishing the facilities the
CTA
chose to simply make them dormant. For many years, fantrips
often went into the street-level yard.
(Photo by Leon Kay)
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cta4000s@howard.jpg
(148k)
After the above June 1968 fantrip, the six-car train of
Plushie 4000s unloads at
Howard while a
1-50 on the Evanston
Shuttle unloads after a run from Linden.
Note the railfans on the right taking photos. The transite
barriers divide the platforms into different paid and unpaid
areas at a time when the North-South and shuttle trains had
differential fares. (Photo by Leon
Kay)
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cta4427@Wilson.jpg
(200k)
As they make their way around the system during the June
1968 fantrip, car 4427 leads a train of Plushie 4000s
heading south through Wilson
on Track 1, the former lead to the Buena Interchange Yard.
Note that the wire over Track 1 -- formerly used by electric
locomotives hauling freight -- is still active and the pole
on 4427 is up. (Photo by Leon
Kay)
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cta4000s@randolph-wabash.jpg
(164k)
A train of amputee Plushie 4000s
-- that is, they have had their poles removed for service on
the all-third rail Ravenswood route -- pulls into Randolph/Wabash
in September 1968. This view of a Ravenswood "A" train is
during rush hour, as Ravenswood trains ran on the Inner Loop
at all other times of the day. (Photo by
Leon Kay)
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ctaS-358c.jpg
(135k)
Work motor S-358, formerly Plushie 4000
car 4430, is in Lower
63rd Yard between runs in June 1968. The car was
converted to a work motor two and a half years before in
December 1965 and in winter was often equipped with a plow
to act as a snowfighter. (Photo by Leon
Kay)
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