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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 9:49 pm Post subject:

(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS/LINKS)

Detailed, in-depth CRT/CTA history and chronologies.......

https://www.chicago-l.org/history/index.html

["SKOKIE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 9:57 pm Post subject:

Also.......

https://www.chicago-l.org/vocab.html ("lingo" of the "L")

https://www.chicago-l.org/mishaps/index.html (CRT/CTA accidents, etc. over the years)

["RAVENSWOOD"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 11:14 pm Post subject:

Talk about a "BUSY intersection"* (a number of interesting historic photos are also here)

By the 1920s, this location was cited as the busiest railroad junction in the world (morning rush hour trains passing through every 15 seconds!)........

https://www.chicago-L.org/operations/towers/tower18.html

["18"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 6:21 am Post subject:

'NO LINES, NO WAITING!" ( This busy scene dates back to the 1950s, with three trains of "6000s" screeching and clattering by by Tower #18 )...........

https://www.chicago-l.org/operations/towers/images/tower18g.jpg

["KIMBALL"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 6:28 am Post subject:

Station/platform signs (including variations of original signage); note the original "moderne" overhead illuminated "JACKSON" signs (again, shades of the BSS) and the tiled sign at "GRAND-MILWAUKEE"........

https://www.chicago-l.org/signage/platform/index.html#original.html

["FULLERTON"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 9:49 am Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 11:36 am Post subject:

W.B.:

The "L's" in "Shik-aga", indeed, always had a distinct "daredevil" aura about its operations, in sync with its overall safety record through the dacves.

Recall, here in "Noo Yawk", the "L" (original IRT/BRT operations) only ran "elevated" rapid transit trains; in "Shik-aga", on the other hand, you not only had the frequent "L" trains themselves, but also, the interurban trains of the CA&E ("The Great Third Rail") and the CNS&M ("North Shore"), as well as (until 1934) CRT/CA&E funeral train service, PLUS freight service, operated by the CRT/CTA/CNS&M.

Indeed, excitement "rode the rails" through the Loop, back in the day...... Wink

"NYO"

[" 'A' LAKE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 12:08 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

Also of interest..........

https://www.chicago-l.org/operations/power/index.html#substations

https://www.chicago-l.org/trains/roster/index.html

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 9:28 pm Post subject:

More nostalgic complexity, "Shik-aga"-style...........

https://www.chicago-l.org/operations/towers/market-met.html

["CRT"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 8:45 am Post subject:

Until the 1960s, "box motors" were commonplace on the "L" in "Shik-aga"; here in "Noo Yawk", the closes piewce of rolling stock the "Em-Tee-Yay" has to a "box motor" are the oft-neglected. hard-workin' "R-127"/"R-134".........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6234

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?40224

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?29424

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["NOT IN SERVICE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 8:57 am Post subject:

Back in those long-ago days we still wax nostalgic over, the "SBK", with its compact fleet of vintage "lectric locos" was as close to the "See-Tee-Yay's" freight operations ("trolley freight") as you could get.

Note, also, the buses in a few of these old views............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?112771

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?33667

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?112576

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?33666

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7332

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?112578

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Brooklyn_Railway

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 9:16 pm Post subject:

See also..........

https://www.trainweb.us/AbandonedLIRR/sbk.htm

["GENERAL ELECTRIC"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 11:00 pm Post subject:

Recalling the days of "trolley freight" operations in Brooklyn (the "See-Tee-Yay" was the only other rapid transit system that utilized electric locos to handle freight)..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136493

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136492

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136495

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?75638

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?75589

["SBK"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 11:11 pm Post subject:

Built in 1920, steeplecab #S105, veteran survivor of "See-Tee-Ay' freight service over the North Side "L" until the 1970s. now resides at the IRM............

https://www.irm.org/player/ctas105/

["CTA"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Mon May 26, 2025 1:49 pm Post subject:

"Another Dimension"...........

Interesting how when you think that, back in the days that the CA&E and thr CNS&M operated their trains into the Loop, they ran on the same rails as the CRT/CTA, which, of course, were NOT "interurbans".

I've seen historic photos of certain "L" stations where "flip boards" (wooden) were affixed to the platform edges (recall,freights.also were oprerated ober "L" rails for many years)

Recall, also, that the famed "Electroliners" and the CA&E's steel cars featured tapered sides, for "L" clearances.

Of course, the interurban trains did not (and COULD NOT) venture into the subways.....

"NYO"