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Uploaded by on Jan 17, 2007

A pair of CTA cars at the Illinois Railway Museum. September 16, 2006.

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  • I've ridden these cars while on the former Philadelphia & Western RR (now SEPTA's Rt. 100 line) in PA and they could really get rolling on a downgrade. I rode one pair going through W. Overbrook station with the speedometer reading 65 MPH. Even though these subway-elevated cars ran on a former RAILROAD in this case, the newsmedia successfully connived the public into believing that they were actually trolleys. And beleive me it has NOTHING to do with their ancestry as Green Hornet streetcars.

  • Don't you blaspheme the 6000/1-50 series cars ;p

  • Please don't idealize the "spam cans." Green hornets were great streetcars, but the spam cans were terrible subway cars. Noise level inside them in the subway was the loudest I have ever experienced anywhere. They were can crash worthy, and they took a beating in collsions. But they were tough as nails, and served in revenue service for forty years.

  • I just with they were still running on the CTA's actual el lines. They make the CTA's present cars look like tin cans!

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