7000 Series
The exterior of the CSR Sifang America 7000 Series cars. The CTA board voted to approve $1.3 billion for 843 rail cars from the 7000 Series.
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The interior of the CSR Sifang America 7000 Series cars. The CTA board voted to approve $1.3 billion for 843 rail cars from the 7000 Series
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A Chicago Transit Authority 5000 Series rail car is trucked out of the Skokie shop and loaded onto a flatbed so it can be transported via a truck Aug. 27, 2015. The last of the CTA's new rail cars was...
View ArticleLast run for the 2400
The Chicago Transit Authority's 2400 Series "L" cars arrive at the Washington train stop, at Wells Street, in Chicago's Loop on Jan. 21, 2015. The 2400 Series, which dates from the mid- to late 1970s,...
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The CTA's 2400 Series "L" cars arrive at the Washington train stop, at Wells Street, in Chicago's Loop on Jan. 21, 2015, during their last run.
View ArticleRetiring the 2200 series
Rail supervisor Chris Fisher, left, and switchman Edward Fernandez, in train, move a 2200 Series rail car out of the Rosemont garage Aug. 7, 2013. The 44-year-old 2200 Series cars were to make a...
View ArticleNew 5000 Series
Riders on a CTA "L" Red Line subway train commute in a new 5000 Series car Aug. 1, 2013.
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Derek Stawikoski, of Bombardier Transportation, performs maintenance on the door of a 5000 Series CTA car at the CTA train repair facility in Forest Park on June 5, 2013.
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Crews work on rail cars June 12, 2012, at the Bombardier Transportation factory in Plattsburgh, N.Y., which manufactures rail cars for the CTA.
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Commuters sit face to face in a new 5000 Series "L" car on the Red Line on April 29, 2010.
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Passengers board at 95th Street on the CTA's 5000 Series rail cars, which began testing with commuters on the Red Line, on April 19, 2010.
View ArticleEnd of the line
Looking north from Madison Street with the Market Street "L" and stub, marking the end of the line before it was removed in 1948.
View ArticleNew 1981 rail cars
The first two rail cars of an order of 300 new Budd Co. cars for the CTA at the CTA's Skokie shop, 3701 Oakton St., on March 6, 1981.
View ArticlePerilous ride
Two riders hang on as they pull out from the Fullerton station Dec. 20, 1979. Overcrowding on the limited service trains because of a strike forced passengers to try ingenious — and perilous — ways of...
View ArticlePacked ride
Rapid transit riders who succeeded in getting onto an "L" train during a CTA strike on Dec. 20, 1979, found themselves packed into the cars.
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In the fourth day of the CTA strike, only 23 trains were running citywide on emergency limited service routes on Dec. 20, 1979. Too few seats and too many riders left some brave souls out in the cold.
View ArticleTrain yard
Rail cars at 96th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway are parked Dec. 17, 1979.
View ArticleThe Loop
Looking south at the elevated tracks of the CTA system on Wabash Avenue at Lake Street on Sept. 19, 1975.
View ArticleIdeal ride
Elevated cars reflecting rapid transit experts' ideal ride, shown Jan. 23, 1975, were slated to run on the CTA's Skokie Swift Line.
View ArticleCrash victim
A victim is carried between the north- and southbound tracks Sept. 13, 1974. A northbound CTA train crashed into the rear of another train just north of the Bryn Mawr station.
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