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cta4215b.jpg
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With the arrival of the 2000s,
the Baldie 4000s were
retired quickly. Most were scrapped in 1964 and '65, but a
few stuck around for a while. Although car 4215 did not
formally become a work motor (i.e. it was not assigned an
"S" car number), it was used in nonrevenue service for a few
years. In this May 1969 view, it's south of the Loop
over Wabash Avenue hauling a flat car as part of the
preparation for return of this line to revenue service when
the Dan
Ryan line opened later in the year. Car 4215 was retired
the next year, in 1970. (Photo by Jerry
Appleman)
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cta4414int.jpg
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The interior of car 4414 is seen on a southbound Evanston
Express train during the afternoon rush hour in November
1963. The car's interior paint pattern is the scheme the
cars would be retired in. The seats are also still
upholstered in their original, signature green and yellow
fabric, providing the namesake for the cars' "Plushie"
nickname. In later years, the
CTA reupholstered the
cars' seats in more durable brown naugahyde.
(Photo by Jerry Appleman)
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cta4269.jpg
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Car 4269 is leading a four car CERA
fantrip, under former North Shore Line catenary on the
Skokie Swift at Kostner Avenue on June 26,
1966. (Photo by Jerry Appleman)
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cta4000s11.jpg
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Shortly before their retirement, a center door-equipped
"Baldie" 4000-series car
leads a six-car train of like-equipment on an eastbound
Douglas-Milwaukee "B" train at Clinton/Congress
station in February 1964. The arrival of the 2000-series
cars and the assignment of 40 of them to the West-Northwest
Route allowed for the retirement of these
cars. (Photo by Jerry Appleman)
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cta6000s_4000s.jpg
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Two generations of "L" equipment meet as they pass each
other on the Wells Street Bridge. A four-car train of
Plushie 4000-series cars
are approaching Merchandise
Mart station on a northbound Evanston Express run as a
train of flat-door 6000-series
cars on a southbound Ravenswood "B" run head toward the
Loop in April
1965. (Photo by Jerry Appleman)
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crt4000s@Wacker.jpg
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A northbound train of Baldie 4000-series
cars passes above as a 2700-series Chicago Surface Lines
streetcar passes underneath at Wacker and Wells looking
north with the Merchandise Mart in background.
(Photo from CTA Collection)
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cta4304.jpg
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4000-series car 4304, a
1922 Cincinnati Car product, is leading a two-car Lake "A"
train at Madison
& Wells in May 1964. The train is running on the
Inner Loop,
but by today's operations would appear to be going to "wrong
way" (e.g. it is operating "left-handed", against traffic).
This is because beginning in 1913, the Loop
began operating "uni-directionally", that is all trains went
in the same direction (counterclockwise) on both tracks.
Five years after this photo, the Loop
returned to bi-directional right-hand
running. (Photo by Jerry
Appleman)
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cta2011_4145_3146@HamlinYd.jpg
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Three generations of "L" equipment -- from right to left, in
order of age, a wood car, a 4000-series
car, and a High-Performance Family car -- are lined up
at Hamlin
Yard in 1964. The three also all ran on the Lake
Street Line, the location of Hamlin
Yard, at one time or another. At left, Pullman-Standard
car 2011 represented a state of the art railcar at the time
of the photo. Car 4145, at center, represented the steel
cars that had served the line since 1915. At right, car
3146, by then in work service, dated from the earliest days
of the Lake Street Elevated Railroad and had served the
route from 1893 to 1954. (Photo from the CTA
Collection)
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skokieshops10.jpg
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A decommissioned wooden car, probably a former Northwestern
Elevated unit, and a handful of 4000-series
cars are seen in Skokie
Yard in 1966. (Photo by Miles
Beitler)
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howard05.jpg
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The east side of Howard
Yard is seen looking southeast from Juneway Terrance in
1965. Parked in the yard are several 4000-series
cars, with a 6000-series
car on the turning loop/yard lead. With the expansion of
Howard Yard in the early 1990s, the apartments on the left
side of the alley are now gone and this view would be
looking directly at the Howard Shops building. (Photo by Miles
Beitler)
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