Patriotic colors  Contributor's Pick!       
A set of the normally green and white CTA cars has been painted for the Bicentennial. Now two years after the big celebration, quite a few cars still carried their festive paint schemes, such as this set on Lake St. I found it interesting that CTA was running two car trains. In New York, where I lived, they never ran anything shorter than four cars, which alleviated the problem of a train getting "stranded" going through a gap in third rail access while negotiating switches.
Date: 8/16/1978 Location: Chicago, IL   Map Show Chicago on a rail map Views: 142 Collection Of:   Tom Beckett
Locomotives: CTA 6691(Electric M.U.)    Author:  Tom Beckett
Patriotic colors
Picture Categories: Station,Passenger,Action This picture is part of album:  Rapid Transit
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