2200's at Howard

[Lostinthe80s]

I was riding a purple Line train north out of Howard last nigh and I saw a pair of 2200's sitting in the Howard yard coupled to a pair of 2600's. The numbers are 2263-64. I wonder if the 2200's are coming to the Red/Purple lines?

[Amtrak41]

When I visited Chicago in mid-August, I also saw that. I think it is just a shop move. Nobody wants the 2200's misbehaving on more than 1 line at once, especially the Red Line. I always thought they should also be used as belly cars on Evanston Expresses as it would be low-mileage duty.

[Zol87]

I saw those as well? Were they going to the Skokie Shops? Because I saw some in the yard of the Skokie Shops while passing by on the Swift. I couldn't see the numbers though.

[statelake174]

2200s have been running on the Englewood-Howard and Lake-Dan Ryan Lines at the beginning of their lifes. CTA sometimes send 2200 series trains to run on other lines outside of the Blue(O-Hare-Logan Square-Milkawee-Dearborn Subway-Congress) Line as either historic charters or just tempoary trains(if the 2200 runs on the Red Line, it probaly won't run on the Red Line for more than a day). The answer that is the most likely, however, is there only in the Howard Yard for maintenance.

Hope this isn't the end for the 2200 series...yet....

[RJL6000]

2200s have been running on the Englewood-Howard and Lake-Dan Ryan Lines at the beginning of their lifes.

Actually, the 2200s have never been officially assigned to the North-South (Englewood-Howard or Jackson Park-Howard) Route. At the beginning of their lives, the 2200s were (officially) assigned to the West-South (Lake-Dan Ryan) and West-Northwest (Congress-Milwaukee, Douglas-Milwaukee) Routes (although the North-South Route did occasionally borrow a few of those 2200s when they were short on available 6000s, which entirely equipped that line at the time). At the time the 2200s were first delivered, the West-Northwest Route was equipped with mostly 6000s, with a few 2000s and double-ended 1-50s mixed in; upon the delivery and assignment of a sufficient number of 2200s to the West-Northwest Route to cover base service (this occurred around the time the Northwest Side extension to Jefferson Park opened in 1970), the 2000s were all reassigned to the West-South Route and the 1-50s were reassigned to the Ravenswood (now Brown Line). Eventually, all 2200s ended up on the West-Northwest Route by the mid-1980s (with the other two through-routed lines, the North-South and West-South Routes, getting 2000s and 2400s, respectively); at that point, the then-recently delivered 2600s were spread out across all lines except the Skokie Swift.

[statelake174]

Actually, the 2200s have never been officially assigned to the North-South (Englewood-Howard or Jackson Park-Howard) Route. At the beginning of their lives, the 2200s were (officially) assigned to the West-South (Lake-Dan Ryan) and West-Northwest (Congress-Milwaukee, Douglas-Milwaukee) Routes (although the North-South Route did occasionally borrow a few of those 2200s when they were short on available 6000s, which entirely equipped that line at the time). At the time the 2200s were first delivered, the West-Northwest Route was equipped with mostly 6000s, with a few 2000s and double-ended 1-50s mixed in; upon the delivery and assignment of a sufficient number of 2200s to the West-Northwest Route to cover base service (this occurred around the time the Northwest Side extension to Jefferson Park opened in 1970), the 2000s were all reassigned to the West-South Route and the 1-50s were reassigned to the Ravenswood (now Brown Line). Eventually, all 2200s ended up on the West-Northwest Route by the mid-1980s (with the other two through-routed lines, the North-South and West-South Routes, getting 2000s and 2400s, respectively); at that point, the then-recently delivered 2600s were spread out across all lines except the Skokie Swift.

Oh. I thought the 2200s ran on the North-South lines, guess I was wrong.

Ya can't deny this however;

http://www.hopetunnel.org/subway/cta/050501/15_2223mdw.jpg

[trainman8119]

Oh. I thought the 2200s ran on the North-South lines, guess I was wrong.

Ya can't deny this however;

http://www.hopetunnel.org/subway/cta/050501/15_2223mdw.jpg

This was obviously a railfan charter. The signage is for Englewood-Howard, however

the pic was taken at the Midway terminal. RJL was right on with the history.

[RJL6000]

This was obviously a railfan charter. The signage is for Englewood-Howard, however

the pic was taken at the Midway terminal. RJL was right on with the history.

That pic of the 2200s at the Midway terminal was, indeed, taken during a fantrip charter on 1 May 2005. The cars had older destination sign roller curtains installed for the fantrip. Four cars were used in the fantrip: 2223-24, 2319-20.

Initially, with regards to 2200-series assignments, around 60 were assigned to the Lake-Dan Ryan with the rest assigned to the Congress-Douglas-Milwaukee lines. With the arrival of the 2400-series cars in 1976 and 1977, a few of the then-new 2400s were assigned to the West-Northwest Route and some additional 2200s were reassigned from the West-Northwest to the West-South Route. Around 1983 all of the Lake-Dan Ryan's 2200s were reassigned to the West-Northwest Route in exchange for all of that line's 2400s and some of that line's then-recently delivered 2600s.