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Car 53 leads a fan trip celebrating CERA's 35th Anniversary of Mint Green and Alpine White PCC "L" cars (followed, out of frame, by cars 50 and 6101-6102) at Armitage on May 28, 1973. (Photo by Art Peterson, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Car 53 arrives at Sedgwick for a photo opportunity on the CERA fan trip of May 28, 1973. (Photo by Art Peterson, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Car 53 -- The Minuteman -- finishes its Skokie Swift run arriving at Dempster on May 29, 1975. (Photo by Ed McKernen, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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In its mercury green, croydon cream, and swamp holly orange paint scheme, car 53 arrives at Dempster on July 22, 1968. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Car 53, in its Bicentennial scheme, crosses the North Shore Channel between Evanston and Skokie on August 14, 1978. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Bicentennially painted car 53 loads passengers at Dempster/Skokie on July 7, 1975. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Car 53 stops at the Skokie Swift Terminal on July 7, 1975. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Between runs, car 54 -- the John Paul Jones -- sits in the Howard Street Yard on September 22, 1976. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Car 54 completes its turnaround on the Dempster stub track to head back southeast to Howard on September 23, 1976. The original NSL/CRT Dempster station, albeit with an unfortunate later plexiglas addition on the back, is on the right. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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In its Bicentennial scheme, car 54 loads passengers at Howard on the Skokie Swift run on September 22, 1976. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)