Thanks to Thomas Slater, who has been going through some of the Electric Car Department archive files, we have a random assortment of photos that have turned up. These were mostly taken on the CTA during the 1950s and 1960s.
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The first three photos show a North Shore battery locomotive delivering a pair of CTA 6000s to Skokie Shops. No photographer or date is listed but it's thought these were taken c1954-1956.
Here's Met car 2865, built 1906 by Pullman and identical to 2872 and 2888 preserved at IRM, somewhere in the Loop. No photographer or date; likely late 1940s or early 1950s.
Car 3121 is an ex-Lake Street Elevated car, built by Pullman in 1894 and initially a steam-hauled trailer; like the Met car photo, no photographer or date is listed but it's likely late 1940s/early 1950s.
The next photos show CTA 2003-2004, the second pair of 2000s, at Skokie immediately after delivery in 1964. No photographer is listed.
CTA S-104 is one of two Baldwin-Westinghouse steeplecabs the "L" owned for operating freight trains on the North Side Elevated. Its sister, S-105, is preserved at IRM while S-104 is in private ownership and stored in Michigan City, Indiana. Photographer and date unknown but thought to be Skokie Shops.
And then we have a series of mishap photos. Ed Mizerocki took the below photo on February 2, 1966 showing cars 4306 and 4381. The latter appears to have had a fire over the truck, possibly due to a third rail short.
3 comments:
2865's location is on Van Buren just east of Plymouth Ct., the Fisher Building and the Monadnock Building are visible in the background, still existing. The buildings in the near background have been demolished. - Steve
CTA 'L' car 1779 was not built by Jewett, but by Pullman. IRM scrapped cars 1770, 1775 & 1784 in 1973 at IRM. Those cars were originally at Desplaines Avenue as locker/crew rooms.
At least some of those photos came from Bob Bruneau's collection. I remember when he brought them out--especially the one of the Baldy that split the switch.
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