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Passenger Trains > CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th BirthdayDate: 10/02/25 10:14 CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: DHarrison On Oct. 01, 2025, the Chicago Transit Authority celebrated its 78 birthday by using its102 year old rapid transit cars to give rides arount the downtown Loop 'L' tracks. The two-hours train stopped at all Loop stations. My personal notes on the rides included...CTA workers have new safety vests.....They used the motorman's door to board passengers, that was never done when cars were in service.....At the last stop, Washington/Wells, everybody had to leave. The Heritage Cars accepted a Purple lineup at Tower 18. HF cars headed north to Skokie.
David Harrison You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 10/02/25 10:46 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: ts1457 Thanks for the video and seeing that pair in operation. I probably rode them half their lifespan ago.
Date: 10/02/25 12:12 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: sp3204 This was very well done! I must admit I kept looking for Jake and Elwood somewhere in the video.
Date: 10/02/25 12:33 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: texchief1 What was it called in the years before CTA?
texchief1 Date: 10/02/25 13:38 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: DutchDragon texchief1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What was it called in the years before CTA? > > texchief1 The Chicago Rapid Transit Company and the Chicago Surface Lines streetcar system were merged in 1947 to form the CTA. Date: 10/02/25 15:04 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: ctjacks CTA doesn't run many of these events, unlike New York's MTA, so they are worth going to when they have them. And they only charge the standard $2.50 fare to ride the historic cars. They have a retro station at Quincy which makes for good photos.
Date: 10/02/25 17:35 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: atsf121 Super cool, love seeing the old equipment. I enjoyed riding the L on my business trips to Chicago decades ago. Think I recognize the building I used to go to in one of your clips.
Nathan Posted from iPhone Date: 10/02/25 20:22 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: Spongebob-Trainguy It looks like those cars have trolley polls.
Is there any video of these cars taken in a station? Does anyone have pics from inside the cars? Date: 10/02/25 20:58 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: ctjacks Search YouTube for the 4000 series cars on July 20 2023 for many videos inside and out.
Posted from iPhone Date: 10/02/25 22:48 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: 6432 Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Posted from iPhone Date: 10/03/25 11:51 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: agent1522 Spongebob-Trainguy Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > It looks like those cars have trolley polls. They do. The Lake Street Line ran at ground level thru Oak Park and used trolley wire until the line was elevated onto the Chicago and North Western right of way in 1962. Also, the Evanson Line had ground level running and trolley wire until converted to third rail after the 4000s were retired. > Is there any video of these cars taken in a > station? > Does anyone have pics from inside the cars? > Date: 10/05/25 18:15 Re: CTA Uses 102 Years Old Cars For Their 78th Birthday Author: DHarrison Shows from Eric Bronzky.
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