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SubwayOpening01.jpg
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When the State Street Subway opened in October 1943, a train
of 4000-series cars served
as the official first train, with a City of Chicago seal
mounted over the front end door. This train, however, is
from a "ceremonial" opening that took place in April 1943
for Mayor Kelly's reelection campaign. The train is being
posed without people, except for the fellow in the right
window, in the sparkling new subway. A near-identical train
was used for the official opening the following
October.
(Photo from the Chicago Transit
Authority Collection)
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cta4043.jpg
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Although a couple center door Baldie motor cars remain in
existence, car 4043 is believed to be the last remaining
center door trailer left. The car, seen here on January 19,
2004 at the Northern
Ohio Railway Museum in Chippewa Lake, Ohio, has not been
maintained and the museum has more or less written it off,
deaccessioning it and putting it up for sale to any
interested parties. Note that the paint has deteriorated so
that you can read the original "RAPID
TRANSIT" lettering on the letterboard.
(Photo by Frank Hicks)
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ctaS-374.jpg
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The Northern
Ohio Railway Museum's other 4000-series
car, S-374, is not in much better shape. The car, which
began life as car 4423 and was converted to a work car by
CTA in 1972, is
slated to be scrapped for parts. The trucks, air &
control equipment is to be used to restore Lake Shore
Electric car 42. This view of the car is on January 19,
2004. (Photo by Frank Hicks)
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ctaS-347b.jpg
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4000-series work car S-347
is seen in the yard at Skokie
Shops in November, 1965 shortly after being converted
from passenger unit 4323. Outwardly, the car has barely been
changed at all from its days in revenue service, save for
the service number painted under the
CTA logo on the
carside. (Photo by Jerry
Applemen)
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ctaS-349.jpg
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Converted for work service in December 1965 from car 4318,
S-349 is leading a work train passing Berwyn
on the North
Side Main Line in April 1967. Like most of the Plushie's
converted to work service in the mid-1960s, S-349 was given
sealed-beam marker lights, blocked-out windows, and a yellow
paint job. At one time equipped with a snow plow, S-349 only
saw a few years of work service, being retired in December
1972. (Photo by Jerry Applemen)
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cta4000s08.jpg
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After completing its circuit around the Loop
and passing through Tower
18, a two-car train of 4000-series
Plushie cars heads westbound on a Lake Street "A" run toward
Harlem in April 1964. Note that Tower
18 is in the middle of the junction and the track on the
right -- the eastbound Lake Street track, dead ends after
the switch to the Outer Loop. Five years later, this track
would be extended through to allow through-service over Lake
Street onto the Inner Loop for Lake-Dan Ryan service. (Photo by Jerry Applemen)
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cta4410cab.jpg
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This view shows the motorman's cab of car 4410, as seen from
outside the car. Controls were located in the front right
corner of the vestibules at each end of the car next to a
side door. A door could be swung in front of the controls,
closing them off when not in use. Among the equipment in the
cab as the Westinghouse control stand (left) and air brake
stand (right). In this cab, the motorman has left his
wood-gripped brake handle in the stand and has the control
stand in the forward position. (Photo by
Gerald Widemark)
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cta4000s09.jpg
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A four-car train of 4000s
are arriving at Main
Street on a southbound Evanston Shuttle run on the
morning of March 8, 1973. The cars would be unneeded for
revenue service within months when the Evanston
Line was converted from overhead power to third
rail. (Photo by J. Terrell
Colson)
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cta4000s10.jpg
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As the 4000s were nearing
the end of their service lives, many railfans wanted to
enjoy the cars while they were still active on the property.
A train of 4000s are seen
on the turnback track at Dempster
at the end of the Skokie
Swift on March 20, 1973 on one of many fantrips that
were run in the cars' final months, this one sponsored by
CERA.
(Photo by J. Terrell Colson)
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cta4325b.jpg
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The North
Side Main Line and Evanston
branch had several sidings to accommodate the handling
of freight by the "L" along these lines. Some sidings
directly serviced specific businesses, while others were
simply points for off-loading of less-than-carload freight
to trucks. Here, a train of 4000-series
cars, led by 4235, is on the South Boulevard team track in
south Evanston on a March 27, 1973 fantrip.
(Photo by Art Peterson, from the Joe
Testagrose collection)
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