Back In The Day BW Dubs CTA Howard ST B TrainSubway NB PART TWO.mov

More BW dubs from the 1970s. Our Howard B "L" is about to leave the State ST Subway and join the north side mainline elevated. Note the semaphore signals at Clark JCT and at Howard Terminal. The train we are on is an 8 car 6000 PCs made from components of PCC streetcars. The cars arrived in the moddle 50s from the St Louis Car Company. The color scheme was the alpine green with off white to match the recently received Pullman 2000 high performance cars that opened the Lake ZStreet elevation.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• CTA
• L train
• 6000 series L car
• PCC L car
• Chicago transit
• elevated railroad
• PCC L Car
• passenger railroad

[msibnsf]

Evanston Express ran on the outer tracks.

DH

[DaSourceMan]

@msibnsf Is not the same it use to run Express from Howard to MM

[Yestrooper1]

After the Morse-Rogers Park stop, there was a train on the outer tracks passing you in the same direction. What line was that?

[RTD8481]

Wow! Wrigley Field before it had lights! I remember that vibrating sound the cars would make at cruising speed.

[M1903A1]

This movie was probably shot in 1974 or 1975...the first Howard Shop hasn't been built yet.

Between Armitage and Fullerton at 1:32, interesting to see that the old DePaul theater building (aka "The Barn") was still standing then.

Passing Wilson, it looks like the historic cars are sitting in the yard, along with a number of other 4000s. Several sets were kept here after withdrawal from Evanston service, stored serviceable, until they were sold for scrap in 1975.

Love the old CRT blue signs!

[M1903A1]

Ah...that magic sound of hypoid gears....

[mcguire1978]

Great video :-)