Nostalgia & History > Rush hour in Chicago

C&NW commute train, Chicago, 1962.

Ed

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Great view...not just of the train, but of all the cars that used to be made of metal.

Adam

Love those whitewalls, and look how polished those cars are.

Is that a '40 Ford Business Coupe' behind the Olds? It sure looks like one. It's probably a "steet rod" now, if it ain't scrapped!



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The third car on the far side of the street looks like a Ford retractable hard top!

Dennis

Bet that Ford Coupe would have a hard time getting out of that parking spot until the Olds moved.

Brings back memories of the only time I rode a C&NW commuter train, summer of 1963 or 1964, from Northwestern Station to Great Lakes, Ill., to visit a classmate whose father was a naval officer and whose family lived on the base. When we got off the train at Great Lakes people thought we were recruits and kindly offered to show where to report for basic training.

The C&NW was a classy operation from what I recall, and I read somewhere that it commuter operations remained profitable well into the 1960s. (I can't verify that, but I'm sure someone on TO may be able to shed light on that.)

is it a commuter or a bilevel 400. The cars llok like those they put ib service un the lat 50'2 for the 400's