dodge05.jpg (170k) After Dodge station closed, the station house was converted to a commercial space. The tenant was the appropriately named North Shore Electrical Supply, sitting under the tracks that formerly carried the North Shore Line interurban. The tracks were reborn as the CTA's Skokie Swift, and car 54, in its Bicentennial paint scheme, passes overhead on July 1, 1977. Though all the windows were bricked over, features like the terra cotta pilasters, cornice, and cartouches and globed light fixtures remained, giving away its heritage. (Photo from the Scott Greig Collection)
	cta5001e.jpg (215k) Articulated 5000-series car 5001, shining in its original silver and red livery, is stopped on track 3 side of the island platform at Halsted, circa the early 1950s. (Photo by Jim Northcutt, from the Illinois Railway Museum Collection)
	crt5001_19470900_side.jpg (115k) Car 5001, the first 5000-series unit produced, is seen at the Pullman-Standard plant in September 1947. This side view illustrates the long, segmented design of the 5000-series cars -- with their short compartments linked by articulation joints, the cars earned the nickname "doodlebugs", thanks to their similarity to a long, segmented insect. (Photo courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)
	crt5001_19470900_articulation.jpg (200k) This September 1947 photo at the Pullman-Standard factory on the South Side of Chicago of one of prototype car 5001's articulation points shows the accordion diaphragm between car sections that provides an enclosed but flexible passageway for riders between carriages, emphasizes the serrated-edge blocks used to line up and mount the third rail beam to the truck (wheel assembly), and shows the use of resilient wheels, a type of railcar wheel intended to reduce noise and vibration by sandwiching a resilient material (in this case, rubber) between the wheel's inner steel hub (which mounts to the axle) and an outer steel tire (which makes contact with the track), evidenced by the eight large nuts visible on each wheel compressing the rubber-steel assemblies. (Photo courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)
	cta5001_19490524.jpg (193k) This May 24, 1949 shot captured all four 5000-series units on one train consist -- the equivalent in length to a current 8-car train -- with car 5001 at the lead, coming east at Racine on the Met Division main line. A long consist of these cars positioned on a curve nicely conveys the sinuous nature of the articulated 5000s, both as individual hinged units and how they flow when strung together. (Photo by George Krambles, courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)
	cta5003-5002_19480000circa.jpg (178k) 5000-series car 5003 leads the 5002 around the Laramie loop on the Garfield Park branch circa 1948. The way the train snakes around the curve nicely demonstrates the flexible, winding form of the articulated 5000 units. (Photo courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)