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Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars |
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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Thu Jul 30 18:12:13 2015 With its Yellow line closed and not scheduled to be opened by October, it not by November, the CTA had to get a way to ship new rail cars onto active rails and delivery old rail cars for scrapping or for rehab. The 63rd St. lower yard won-out over other locations. A siding there proved to be the easiest to set up. So far, only one highway trailer has been used daily. A new Bombardier 5000 series approaches the main gate at 63rd St. lower yard.  A 5000 series car awaits the Shuttlewagon to pull it off.  So far, six cars have been delivered, four are mated in married pairs.  Return travel trips allow cars to be scrapped or rehabs to be sent to Skokie Shops. CTA painted the criminal art work. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 18:33:08 2015, in response to Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Thu Jul 30 18:12:13 2015. Yep ... that's also how they've been getting from upstate New York to Chicago as well. Every few days, another new one goes by my house. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jul 30 19:48:26 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 18:33:08 2015. Can you hear them say, "Hey, moo!?":) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 20:01:34 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jul 30 19:48:26 2015. Nope ... they just whistle past the graveyard here. :)What I find interesting though is that they don't even bother to tarp them up. |
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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Thu Jul 30 20:22:12 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 20:01:34 2015. "they don't even bother to tarp them up." Maybe because the rail cars are stainless steel.DH |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 30 20:47:08 2015, in response to Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Thu Jul 30 18:12:13 2015. Did you mention that 3087 were the escalator cars. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 20:56:26 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Thu Jul 30 20:22:12 2015. Heh. Yeah, but for NYC's cars, they all came wrapped.Yours are cute though, they fit on ordinary roads without an entire fleet of flashing lights around them when they get moved. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 20:57:15 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 30 20:47:08 2015. Do you mean the train that tried to escape at O'Hare? :) |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Thu Jul 30 21:37:27 2015, in response to Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Thu Jul 30 18:12:13 2015. How nice to see cars at lower 63rd! |
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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Fri Jul 31 02:21:05 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Thu Jul 30 21:37:27 2015.  Not only passenger cars but maintenance types like this sewer vacuum on a flat car needed shipping. Evidently the Chicago's subways needed cleaning that they weren't getting with the Skokie Shops isolated. So Thursday's load put passenger rail cars on hold. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Fri Jul 31 02:29:59 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Fri Jul 31 02:21:05 2015. interesting. Skokie Shops have been isolated for 3(?) months, no? Rahm seems a little slow at getting the bureaucrats moving on the track/retaining wall repairs. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Fri Jul 31 10:39:05 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 20:57:15 2015. Yes. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 31 16:31:48 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Fri Jul 31 10:39:05 2015. I'm surprised that CPD didn't give that car a better beatdown. :) |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Jul 31 22:23:15 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 20:56:26 2015. I rode on them last summer while in Chicago. They run smoothly and quietly, plus the air conditioning works great. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Jul 31 22:24:27 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 31 16:31:48 2015. I can only imagine what would have happened if a 4000-series train had rammed that escalator... |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 31 23:05:26 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Jul 31 22:23:15 2015. Yeah, they weren't about to offer any cab rides as they blew through town here. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 31 23:05:58 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Jul 31 22:24:27 2015. Given the way that the bumper block and the gate folded, probably would have made it to the top. ;) |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 09:49:36 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Fri Jul 31 22:23:15 2015. So the sideway seating didn't bother you? |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 09:52:57 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 31 23:05:58 2015.  So you are familiar with our 4000s. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 11:21:35 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 09:52:57 2015. Looks like an Evanston Express or Lake train with a North-South 6000-series train about to overtake it.I could tell them apart just by their sounds. IRM's 4000s run like tops on the straightaway; they hit Bb above middle C when I rode on them on the 4th of July. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 11:22:42 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 31 23:05:58 2015. They would have kept right on going and blasted a new tunnel. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 11:23:34 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 09:49:36 2015. Put it this way: New York's subway cars have that seating for years. I'm used to it. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 11:34:15 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 11:21:35 2015. Correct. Southbound at Wellington. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 11:35:40 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 11:23:34 2015. As much as I love the New York Subway system. Their seating configurations suck. |
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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Sat Aug 1 12:01:57 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 09:52:57 2015. Whose picture Chicago Motorman? Nice..Dave |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 1 12:21:46 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 09:52:57 2015. Yep. Been hitting up Chitown since the 60's. Even got to spend some time at Wrigley in 1968 during the democratic convention along with the rest of the press. :) |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 12:45:20 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 11:34:15 2015. Looks like an Englewood-Howard A train of 6000s. Since it's eight cars long, it must be rush hour. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 12:46:36 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 11:35:40 2015. My aunt doesn't care for the seating on the 5000s, either. Amazingly, she's become a transit fan of sorts in recent years. She turned 90 this year. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 12:50:02 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 1 12:21:46 2015. And I was at the International Amphitheater on July 7 of that year. They used to hold Lithuanian Folk Dance Festivals at the amphitheater; I danced in a few of those there. I think they learned their lesson after the first song festival in 1956. It was held at the old Coliseum, which did not have air conditioning, and on the day of the festival, the temperature soared to 103 degrees. After that, they booked the amphitheater, which was air conditioned. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Aug 1 12:54:33 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 11:35:40 2015. I used to think that when I first moved to NYC in 66. Today, I am mostly pleased that trains are crowded. When I ride CTA, I tyry to find a bench near the doors for ease of exit. While I miss the railfan seat of my youth, it is basic transport. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Aug 1 12:56:40 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 09:52:57 2015. Lovely! |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:19:14 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 12:45:20 2015. Englewood went south. Howard went north. So there for it's an Englewood train. Back then 8 cars were only run rush hours, now they are run on the red line all day long. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:19:42 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 12:46:36 2015. G-d bless her. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:20:32 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Aug 1 12:54:33 2015. You are pleased riding a crowded train? |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:23:46 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Sat Aug 1 12:01:57 2015. Graham Garfield. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:25:11 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 1 12:21:46 2015. When you coming again so we can have that beer? |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 14:51:39 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 30 20:56:26 2015. Not on every road. When the oldest Budd CTA cars were being overhauled here in Bkln at the Bkln Army Terminal, I would see a few of them lined up on the Staten Island side of the Verrazano/Narrows Bridge waiting until after midnight when the upper level would be closed to traffic so that the cars could be flatbedded across the bridge to Bkln and regular traffic diverted to the lower level.. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 14:53:59 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:20:32 2015. It’s probably a mixed blessing. Even though it may be a bit uncomfortable, the crowding means that more people are using mass transit than private cars. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 14:57:27 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:19:14 2015. Couldn’t it also have been a Jackson Pk train? |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 15:09:16 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:19:42 2015. She lives right next to the Red Line, a block south of the Bryn Mawr station. In some ways, she's still living in the 1950s - doesn't drive, doesn't own a car, doesn't have a TV set, cell phone or computer. It's her choice. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 15:12:14 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 14:57:27 2015. If you look closely at the front sign, you can see the A outline. Back in the days of A-B skip-stop service, North-South A trains had a red sign while B trains had a green Jackson Park-Howard sign. The A was encased in a triangle while the B had a square around it. Since Bryn Mawr was an AB stop, we could take either train to the Loop. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Aug 1 16:36:32 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 14:53:59 2015. exactly. VMT are down, the millenials are not buying cars or even getting driving licenses, and transit use is up. As a geezer, I am often offered a seat on a crowded BART train; if I'm only goinga few stops, I don't bother. The solution to the issue is of course more frequent and longer trains.In the CTA case, it is too bad the Ravenswood Branch stations weren't lengthened for 10 car trains when they did the rehab/ADA work. On the North-South through Route, the Wilson station should be 10 ready when done, IINM, Fullerton and Belmont were designedto be easily lengthened. The once longest platform in the world is long enough despite the Daley vandalism. Platforms in the Dan Ryan median should be easy. the hard ones will be Harrison, Roosevelt, and the four north of the river. Then of course, CTA should 1, restore A-B service , and 2, see if they can return to the tight headways ofthe 50s/60s. Just dreamin' I suppose, but it would make service better. |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 16:36:52 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 15:12:14 2015. OK. I couldn’t see the sign that clearly on my screen. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Aug 1 16:41:20 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 16:36:52 2015. which is why old school rollsigns whose colors are discernable at a greater distance are better than the useless digital crap on the NTTs. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 17:34:58 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 15:12:14 2015. Correct. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 17:36:14 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Aug 1 15:09:16 2015. Wow! We're neighbors. I'm at Thorndale. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 1 17:46:56 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sat Aug 1 14:25:11 2015. Whenever I manage to get back out there, pencil me in for an intergalactic kegger! :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 1 17:49:05 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by randyo on Sat Aug 1 14:51:39 2015. Well ... NYC tends to make a big deal out of truck movements, only sorta rule around here is "don't do it during rush hour" but if you do, you have only yourself to blame if you get stuck. :) |
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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Sat Aug 1 18:58:06 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Aug 1 16:36:32 2015. "the hard ones will be Harrison, Roosevelt, and the four north of the river. "All State Street subway platforms are long enough to handle 10 car trains. DH |
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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Sat Aug 1 19:07:51 2015, in response to Re: Chicago's CTA Opens Intermodal Facility To Ship Cars, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Aug 1 17:49:05 2015.  Southbound on S. State St., a transferred 5000 series is about to pass under the Englewood "L" at 59th St. on its way to 63rd St. lower yard where the car will be placed on active rails. DH |
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