CTA From the Archives: Delivery of a 6000-series Rail Car [REMASTERED]
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- This video highlights the assembly and delivery of the 6000-series rail cars from St. Louis, MO to Chicago, IL.
Music by Jahzzar (freemusicarchiv...)
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Thanks for the memories, I rode the 6000's on a regular basis as a kid in the 50's
awesome job
I drove those trains on the old Congress line. Later, the 2200.
Very cool! 👍 🙂
Will always remember those interiors with brown vinyl padded seats(YES! PADDED SEATS), incandescent lights and windows that people could open with chrome crank handles. NO air conditioning-NO problem!!
Thanks for preserving and sharing these historic video clips for people of all ages to see and enjoy-especially the young who never had the chance to ride and experience them when they were in regular daily operation.
🚞🚞 ❤ 🇺🇸 👍 🙂 🚞🚞
It had Bullseye lights, the same types used by the Chicago PCC trolleys from 1938 to 1948 when they were delivered. The same interior lights were also used by the Boston PCC trolleys.
You can’t keep a 6000 out of your head after watching Risky Business ;)
The St Louis Car Co. locomotive seen at 0:50 is a former Illinois Terminal Railroad, Class B, electric locomotive (it was eventually donated to the National Museum of Transportation at Kirkwood, MO. where you can see it today).
Really? Thanks, good info!
Sister 1565 also survives at IRM
@@MrAwesomedude808 Indeed it does.
just rode 6711 a few weeks back at the rodeo. interesting how despite looking so different, they have a lot of similarities in the details with "modern" 2600s
spent a lot of time in these thanks
Oh yeah, rode these all the time, on the blue line. No a/c, and LOUD.
The music 🎵 kept putting me to sleep, 5 X times it took for me to see the whole video 😅..
Aw cool, the sets were mated right there on the ramp.
The fellow with the cane during the Skokie unloading sequence was Harold Otis, chief rail equipment engineer. He dated back to the Insull years.
Not too far removed from when we moved them after that except in the "future" it was onto a truck.
Amazing video. I wish the CTA would have kept a couple of these cars
lcar4000 I think there are some cars at a railroad museum. But yes, it would've been nice for the CTA to keep a few for themselves.
thomas...true, i forgot there are several of them at the illinois railway museum
CTA has since re-acquired two pairs of 6000s for the historic fleet, and is currently working to return one of them to service.
lcar4000 i Remember the green and white cars from my childhood.
M1903A1 they sould do a reto week if the still got some of those railroad cars from the 80's.
Nice remastering!
Chicago Aussie yeah, it does seem a bit choppier sometimes.
Chicago Aussie You got to make a video in this. Meanwhile I'll be at school doing my finals. 😭😪😩
There are also 2 6000 series cars at the rail museum in Kennebunckport, ME (Seashore Trolley Museum).
They have been there out in the weather since 1992. They have never operated and are currently deteriorating inoperable. They are also located in a part of the yard that is inaccessible to the public. A real shame the condition they are in. Seashore is not as well funded as IRM.
@@erniebaud Those were the cars that I rode on the final 6000 trip in December of 1992. While I'm glad they didn't go to the shredder, it breaks my heart to see their current condition.
What? No 3rd rail and smoking inside the L passenger car? C'MON MAN! 😊
4:03 - If i were the man on the tracks, I's feel a little nervous.
These were 6203 and 6204 if you wanted the numbers
6204...I remember seeing it at the end of its life, as a shop storage car at the Howard Street terminal shop.
M1903A1 I was wrong 6201 and 6202
04 was the unit being tested at St. Louis. 01 and 02 were the units being delivered at Skokie.
dank