As for CTA, it sounds like these guys are having FUN. They also are sharing that fun with the riding public. Kudos to management for making this a part of their operations. The fun factor has got to be in there to evaluate greatness.
Basically its a heritage program they run that they started a few years ago. They would fix up any remaining CTA cars they could get ahold of. The 6000's in the green and cream you see are being restored along with a pair to run for charter events. Some CTA cars are at the IRM but the cars the CTA has are owned by the CTA themselves
@@WindyCityExpeditionist they actually have another pair of 6000s (not 6101-02 seen in the video, but 6711-12) and eight of the 2400s as part of the historical fleet, which they recently ran for the 75th anniversary. I got a chance to ride both of them.
I don't feel confident that charter and merchandise sale revenue will fund this "heritage" idea. Two car charter trains lose money, that is the problem with the 4000 pair and the reason why they bought four 6000s. Now they can't run the 6000s because they need money to fix them. But they can't get the money to fix them because they can't run the cars.
brushcreek: The whistle on the 4000 SERIES L CARS sounds very much like the horns on the Old dark green IC PULLMAN STANDARD built 1926-1929 and the traction motors sound identical to the old IC PULLMAN STANDARD CARS.
@@albertcarello619 I rode the IC to Richton in 1969, but heard no whistle as there were no grade crossings on that line. I have a whistle from a 4000 car that was scrapped about 1968. I need to someday (I've been saying this for years) attach it to a compressor and blow it.
@@brushcreek42 A pair of IC PULLMAN STANDARD CARS BUILT 1926-1929 are out at the ILLINOIS RAILROAD MUSEUM in Union Illinois. They're occasionally run. Out there they sound both the horn and alarm-gong on those cars. I'm also surprised the 4000s didn't have alarm -gongs considered the close running to city streets like South Boulevard in Oak Park and Austin and on the Garfield Park L with ground level trackage on Van Buren Street during construction of the Eisenhower Expressway with 10 street crossings only protected by traffic signals. Alarm-gongs would certainly be at home on the 4000s. If you rode IC's South Chicago branch you'd sometimes hear the horn on these cars the trains running in medians on 71st Street and Exchange Avenue.
Word on the "Street" is that the 6000's acquired over summer need more $$$$$$$ work than originally planned. So don't expect them operating for a few years :/
@@TWIGYBNSF they first operated in 2019 for customer appreciation day (didn’t go since I had school) and for CTA’s 75th. I also heard they’ve got a pair of 2200s stored.
@@MilwaukeeF40C they’re definitely gonna keep bringing these trains out for every CTA anniversary ending in a 0 or a 5. They brought most of the historic fleet out for the 75th and they’ll probably do it again for the 80th and so on.
MICHAEL GLASS: I also miss the 4000s SERIES L CARS. They sure seems more like Interurbans than Rapid Transit cars. You'll also see a lot of wood trim and allot of advertising for products that haven't been made in many years.
We would, but we are respecting other passengers on board at the time who didn't want to be filmed but on other occasions during charter events we have filmed the interior of the 4000's
Great Juan: NYC system is the largest, but greatness is subjective. From my experience, the NYC system has the filthiest stations and trains, and the local denizens match the hardware. Portland & San Diego have small but nice rapid transit systems, and my favorite large US system is BART.
kjchicago sez: "I think Chicago's CTA Subway System is still the best." That's an unsupported assertion, so what is your criteria? Honestly, how many rapid transit systems have you used in order to form your opinion (I have ridden CTA, PATH, IRT, Washington Metro, Boston MTA, Portland, Atlanta MARTA, BART, Muni, LA Metro, San Diego Trolley, SF Cable Cars, Singapore and sampled a few people-movers that I wouldn't rank as real rapid transit systems)? Modernity of equipment, frequency of service (especially at late hours), surliness of station managers, passenger comfort, car & station customer safety, minimization of graffiti, felonies per year? BART stands out for cleanliness, quiet and comfort (I don't recall CTA rapid transit being air conditioned in 1970). Further, maybe because Chicago has sharp radius curves or whatever, wheel noise on the CTA was really bad (maybe they are better now; I'm basing my opinions on the years I rode the various systems). Portland's is almost quaint, with smaller cars and consists, and high marks for comfort and safety. Portland's light rail became a street trolley system in their downtown area (and it was free up to a few miles out of the city core, but I hear that changed last year). Maybe you should study a few sites like the following to inform yourself about rapid transit systems: www.statista.com/topics/2994/public-transportation/ Seriously, do any of these photos remind you of the CTA? www.thevacationtimes.com/2017/03/best-subway-systems-in-the-world/ Only when you eliminate all of the rest of the World does the CTA finally make the list: www.businessinsider.com/cities-with-best-public-transportation-systems-2014-1
The true test of a transit system is NOT TECHNOLOGY, but passenger-ship. A city can have high-tech trains and space-module stations, but loses if it has few passengers. I like NYC better because, as "dingy" as it looks, its trains and stations are full of PEOPLE. This is true of Tokyo, London, and Berlin. Although I live in Chicago, service has deteriorated badly: It is slow, inefficient, and money is wasted on "aesthetics" like redesigning stations, installing cameras, etc, and NOT IMPROVING SERVICE. As a result, ridership has been declining (as fares are increasing). The only resource that is keeping Chicago's system alive, is government funding.
As for CTA, it sounds like these guys are having FUN. They also are sharing that fun with the riding public. Kudos to management for making this a part of their operations.
The fun factor has got to be in there to evaluate greatness.
So, does CTA plan to run these in revenue service?? And where are they getting these cars, I thought they were owned by the Illinois Railway museum?
Basically its a heritage program they run that they started a few years ago. They would fix up any remaining CTA cars they could get ahold of. The 6000's in the green and cream you see are being restored along with a pair to run for charter events. Some CTA cars are at the IRM but the cars the CTA has are owned by the CTA themselves
@@TWIGYBNSF oh, I did not know that
There was a 5000 in Skokie shops I wonder why
Prolly for repairs.
Wow it's a nice thing that the Chicago Transit Authority is doing by bringing back these old vintage subway car sets
It would be nicer if they could focus on the $5 billion in debt.
What is this supposed to be?
I have ridden every line at one point or another. Depending on where I was working or living.
What are those 2400 series cars doin in the shops?
They were fixing the Engine for Work Service
6000 series and 2400s are going back to service?
They have 2400's running already. @ 9:50
Not anymore, they gone to IRM
@@WindyCityExpeditionist they actually have another pair of 6000s (not 6101-02 seen in the video, but 6711-12) and eight of the 2400s as part of the historical fleet, which they recently ran for the 75th anniversary. I got a chance to ride both of them.
Am I missing something? Did they skip Evanston and go straight to Howard Street?
this is the Skokie Valley route
2 more 6000s were just acquired pushing the total to 4 now.
Hopefully at least two of them will run someday
I don't feel confident that charter and merchandise sale revenue will fund this "heritage" idea. Two car charter trains lose money, that is the problem with the 4000 pair and the reason why they bought four 6000s.
Now they can't run the 6000s because they need money to fix them. But they can't get the money to fix them because they can't run the cars.
Wow! I love this! I live right by Skokie Shops
I used to live in skokie
It would be wonderful to have the 6000,2000,2200 series comeback,but they are not ADA compliant
I thought that was for special events?
The ride to Howard St was most certainly not on a 6000. The motors sound like a 4000 and the whistle is a 4000.
At the time this video was taken, the 6000's were not operable at the time
Sorry, I didn't catch the beginning title.
brushcreek: The whistle on the 4000 SERIES L CARS sounds very much like the horns on the Old dark green IC PULLMAN STANDARD built 1926-1929 and the traction motors sound identical to the old IC PULLMAN STANDARD CARS.
@@albertcarello619 I rode the IC to Richton in 1969, but heard no whistle as there were no grade crossings on that line. I have a whistle from a 4000 car that was scrapped about 1968. I need to someday (I've been saying this for years) attach it to a compressor and blow it.
@@brushcreek42 A pair of IC PULLMAN STANDARD CARS BUILT 1926-1929 are out at the ILLINOIS RAILROAD MUSEUM in Union Illinois. They're occasionally run. Out there they sound both the horn and alarm-gong on those cars. I'm also surprised the 4000s didn't have alarm -gongs considered the close running to city streets like South Boulevard in Oak Park and Austin and on the Garfield Park L with ground level trackage on Van Buren Street during construction of the Eisenhower Expressway with 10 street crossings only protected by traffic signals. Alarm-gongs would certainly be at home on the 4000s. If you rode IC's South Chicago branch you'd sometimes hear the horn on these cars the trains running in medians on 71st Street and Exchange Avenue.
*does Epic fortnite dance because the rest of the 3rd rail railways are super modern and CTA cares about heritage
oh wow, I can't tell if this is just sarcasm, or cringe
@@JoeyLovesTrains Take a chill pill, its a joke.
Word on the "Street" is that the 6000's acquired over summer need more $$$$$$$ work than originally planned. So don't expect them operating for a few years :/
Correct, but the ones from St. Louis will be possibly operational next fall of 2018
I kind of hope the "heritage" thing blows over in a few years.
@@TWIGYBNSF they first operated in 2019 for customer appreciation day (didn’t go since I had school) and for CTA’s 75th. I also heard they’ve got a pair of 2200s stored.
@@MilwaukeeF40C they’re definitely gonna keep bringing these trains out for every CTA anniversary ending in a 0 or a 5. They brought most of the historic fleet out for the 75th and they’ll probably do it again for the 80th and so on.
I miss the 6000's
MICHAEL GLASS: I also miss the 4000s SERIES L CARS. They sure seems more like Interurbans than Rapid Transit cars. You'll also see a lot of wood trim and allot of advertising for products that haven't been made in many years.
View out the window is kind of meaningless. I would have liked to have seen the camera showing the interior of the 4Ks. during this trip.
We would, but we are respecting other passengers on board at the time who didn't want to be filmed but on other occasions during charter events we have filmed the interior of the 4000's
Old cta trains sound like old nyc subway knock offs,because their engines sound like a r9.
Love the sound of these old 4000 series.
Subway cars don't have engines.
Knockoffs...by Cincinnati Car Company 1915.
New York City Subway is the greatest in the world. Sorry Chicago.
Great Juan: NYC system is the largest, but greatness is subjective. From my experience, the NYC system has the filthiest stations and trains, and the local denizens match the hardware. Portland & San Diego have small but nice rapid transit systems, and my favorite large US system is BART.
And How's that? I think Chicago's CTA Subway System is still the best
kjchicago sez: "I think Chicago's CTA Subway System is still the best." That's an unsupported assertion, so what is your criteria? Honestly, how many rapid transit systems have you used in order to form your opinion (I have ridden CTA, PATH, IRT, Washington Metro, Boston MTA, Portland, Atlanta MARTA, BART, Muni, LA Metro, San Diego Trolley, SF Cable Cars, Singapore and sampled a few people-movers that I wouldn't rank as real rapid transit systems)? Modernity of equipment, frequency of service (especially at late hours), surliness of station managers, passenger comfort, car & station customer safety, minimization of graffiti, felonies per year? BART stands out for cleanliness, quiet and comfort (I don't recall CTA rapid transit being air conditioned in 1970). Further, maybe because Chicago has sharp radius curves or whatever, wheel noise on the CTA was really bad (maybe they are better now; I'm basing my opinions on the years I rode the various systems). Portland's is almost quaint, with smaller cars and consists, and high marks for comfort and safety. Portland's light rail became a street trolley system in their downtown area (and it was free up to a few miles out of the city core, but I hear that changed last year). Maybe you should study a few sites like the following to inform yourself about rapid transit systems:
www.statista.com/topics/2994/public-transportation/
Seriously, do any of these photos remind you of the CTA?
www.thevacationtimes.com/2017/03/best-subway-systems-in-the-world/
Only when you eliminate all of the rest of the World does the CTA finally make the list:
www.businessinsider.com/cities-with-best-public-transportation-systems-2014-1
The true test of a transit system is NOT TECHNOLOGY, but passenger-ship. A city can have high-tech trains and space-module stations, but loses if it has few passengers. I like NYC better because, as "dingy" as it looks, its trains and stations are full of PEOPLE. This is true of Tokyo, London, and Berlin. Although I live in Chicago, service has deteriorated badly: It is slow, inefficient, and money is wasted on "aesthetics" like redesigning stations, installing cameras, etc, and NOT IMPROVING SERVICE. As a result, ridership has been declining (as fares are increasing). The only resource that is keeping Chicago's system alive, is government funding.
Stay over there in your part do your thing we're doing fine here in Chicago 125 years later.