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Spotted 20452 in Tennessee while I was driving to Florida last week.

I was about to say mid-life rehabs on the 5000s but yeah, can’t couple 5s and 7s due to two different technologies and systems. It wouldn’t be a good idea in this era at all.

Yes.

There are talks about working with Blue, Red, Green, Brown, and Orange Lines about car assignments. The Blue Line are supposed to get the remaining 3200s from the Brown Line by the end of this year in an equal exchange for the 2600s and possibly receive up to 100-120 5000s from Red and Green Lines when there’s a good amount of 7000s on the rails. Brown and Orange Lines are projected be fully 2600s around next year to ease on the mileage and preparation for retirement due to the fact that it’s easy and efficient to transfer all of them to Skokie Shops for scrapping preparations. 7000s are projected to officially begin service on Red, Purple, Orange, and Brown Lines around 2022, between 50-100 percent completion of the RPM Project, or after testing on all lines in which I don’t have an official date yet. Keep in mind that the Blue Line cannot receive the 7000s until there are sufficient amount of substations on the Congress Branch and/or a major overhaul of the entire branch (also applies to the 5000s). The majority of the branch are beyond grave conditions and it might take quite some time to develop a massive project similar to both Red South and RPM Projects.

3293 3295 3389 3391 3393 and 3405 Blue Line

3269 3313 3367 and 3371 Blue Line

Until they build substations and do a major overhaul south from Racine towards Forest Park, the Blue Line isn’t getting any new equipment nor having 5000s run on a consistent basis. The track conditions are at an alarming rate of deterioration.

Yes it did. It’s currently at Skokie Shops.

Blue Line 3200s: 3201-3203, 3207-3213, 3217-3227, 3231-3233, 3237-3261, 3265, 3271-3281, 3287, 3293, 3299-3303, 3307-3309, 3315-3319, 3327-3335, 3341-48, 3353, 3357, 3365, 3381, 3395, 3407-3411, and 3421-3429 Brown Line 2600s: 2601, 2607, 2611, 2627, 2663, 2671, 2677, 2751, 2767, 2777, 2853, 2885, 2989, 3015-3017, 3027, 3037, 3063, 3079, 3105, 3111, 3119, 3141, and 3183

It did.

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7900s page has been updated. https://chicagobus.org/buses/7900-nova

Yes, 4300 is also there.

That’s a negative mate @Aiden Tabucic, especially due to fact that I’m a CTA rail employee and absolutely no phones are allowed on the training floors.