CTA 'L' Rosters

[Miro]

11 hours ago, Miro said:

Here's an MMIS assignment report I received from a FOIA request, as well as lifecycle info in a spreadsheet.

FOIA_Railcars.xlsx 55.91 kB · 27 downloads FOIA_MMIS.pdf 81.1 kB · 35 downloads

one of the interesting things in here is that the cars used for the holiday train are now marked as WORK motors. It's possible they're looking to retire that holiday train or have upgraded it to have more powerful motors.

[Mr.NewFlyer1279]

2 hours ago, Busjack said:

1644 cars is rudiculous, and it looks like they retired maybe 66 2600s while receiving 248 7000s.

Blue only has 16 2600’s left which are slated to be off the line by Spring 2026 (not confirmed yet, will update this) 

[Busjack]

6 minutes ago, Miro said:

one of the interesting things in here is that the cars used for the holiday train are now marked as WORK motors. It's possible they're looking to retire that holiday train or have upgraded it to have more powerful motors.

I think they were that for a while. Have to be able to move the flatcar with Santa.

[Miro]

Just now, Busjack said:

I think they were that for a while. Have to be able to move the flatcar with Santa.

the last MMIS report (from this thread) did not have that marking on them, so it's just something I think is worth noting

[Busjack]

4 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

Blue only has 16 2600’s left which are slated to be off the line by Spring 2026 (not confirmed yet, will update this) 

I guess I didn;t initially see 126 LTH in the bottom row. That would indicate 192 2600s retired.  Throw in 4 3200s. It's sti;; 52 less than the 7000s received.

Also looks like they wrecked 12 5000s. We know 4 (5599-5560 wrecked on the Yellow Line, and one sent for $900,000 in repairs), but any word on the other 8?

[Mr.NewFlyer1279]

9 minutes ago, Busjack said:

I guess I didn;t initially see 126 LTH in the bottom row. That would indicate 192 2600s retired.  Throw in 4 3200s. It's sti;; 52 less than the 7000s received.

Also looks like they wrecked 12 5000s. We know 4 (5599-5560 wrecked on the Yellow Line, and one sent for $900,000 in repairs), but any word on the other 8?

from what i’ve found it’s 5272 being sent to delaware for body repairs from a incident, i think there was a RFP issued to repair 5599 from the yellow line incident 

Edited Tuesday at 06:07 PM by Mr.NewFlyer1279

[Jackson232]

12 hours ago, Miro said:

Here's an MMIS assignment report I received from a FOIA request, as well as lifecycle info in a spreadsheet.

FOIA_Railcars.xlsx 55.91 kB · 30 downloads FOIA_MMIS.pdf 81.1 kB · 39 downloads

I did not know kimball had 3200 work motors. Don’t think I have ever seen a 3200 work motor in use 

[Busjack]

1 minute ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

i believe the one they sent for repairs was the yellow line crash car, could be wrong and it could be 5272, i know i read something being mechanically wrong with that car ill have to dig back and see what i can find 

It was 5272. I was too lazy to look it up.

24 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

Blue only has 16 2600’s left which are slated to be off the line by Spring 2026 (not confirmed yet, will update this) 

I also meant to mention that the Blue Line won't be done until the 188 3200s are moved.

[wayfaringrob]

1 hour ago, artthouwill said:

Perhaps an (over)abundance of caution  based on having to pull 5000s out of service while equipping the Green Line with them.  CTA didn't want to be caught off guard if an issue arise with the 7000s.

They seem poised to overhaul some couple hundred 2600s, too.

[Busjack]

What 5000s are on LTH are listed near the bottom:

5000 SERIES 12 Cars
5149 OH 5150 OH 5271 5272 5353 5354 5541 OH
5542 OH 5567 5568 5599 5600

(Known ones in bold.)
Also note that these and many other LTHs are listed under 61st St. I KNEW they eventually would have to use that yard.

 

[Javi75]

1 hour ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

Blue only has 16 2600’s left which are slated to be off the line by Spring 2026 (not confirmed yet, will update this) 

The blue line is well over 400 cars those 16 2600s serve no operational purpose other than just taking up space. There’s even too many 3200s on the blue line when looking at the counts. I wonder why cta is dragging so long with getting those 2600s off th blue line and why the line is overfilled. 

[Busjack]

4 minutes ago, Javi75 said:

The blue line is well over 400 cars those 16 2600s serve no operational purpose other than just taking up space. There’s even too many 3200s on the blue line when looking at the counts. I wonder why cta is dragging so long with getting those 2600s off th blue line and why the line is overfilled. 

I agree, but @artthouwill and @wayfaringrob seem to have explanations. 

[Miro]

47 minutes ago, Jackson232 said:

I did not know kimball had 3200 work motors. Don’t think I have ever seen a 3200 work motor in use 

3443-3444 are two of the cars that had to be divorced at Kimball in the August 25th derailment. Interesting that they've been converted to work motors.

[Bus1883]

3 hours ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

from what i’ve found it’s 5272 being sent to delaware for body repairs from a incident, i think there was a RFP issued to repair 5599 from the yellow line incident 

Interesting 

[Bus1883]

I wonder what’s up with 5149-50. Red line has the most cars put on LTH. Those cars listed must have something major besides wrecked 5272 and 5599

[Jackson232]

2 hours ago, Miro said:

3443-3444 are two of the cars that had to be divorced at Kimball in the August 25th derailment. Interesting that they've been converted to work motors.

Here’s a photo of those cars. You can’t see the flatbed in the middle but you can see the gap where the flatbed is. I circled the gap in the photo 

Here is the link of the website where the photo is from https://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/3200s05.html

The website says this picture is a charter train being used during the 2000 cera event.

 

 

[Bus1883]

3 hours ago, Busjack said:

I guess I didn;t initially see 126 LTH in the bottom row. That would indicate 192 2600s retired.  Throw in 4 3200s. It's sti;; 52 less than the 7000s received.

Also looks like they wrecked 12 5000s. We know 4 (5599-5560 wrecked on the Yellow Line, and one sent for $900,000 in repairs), but any word on the other 8?

Not sure I’m assuming those have some sort of damage. 5507-08 were on LTH 2018 and returned in 2020 I could be wrong

[Javi75]

23 hours ago, Miro said:

Here's an MMIS assignment report I received from a FOIA request, as well as lifecycle info in a spreadsheet.

FOIA_Railcars.xlsx 55.91 kB · 47 downloads FOIA_MMIS.pdf 81.1 kB · 59 downloads

How come there isn’t anything listed at Ashland yard for the green line? Are all their railcars really at just Harlem yard? 

[Bus1883]

13 hours ago, Javi75 said:

The blue line is well over 400 cars those 16 2600s serve no operational purpose other than just taking up space. There’s even too many 3200s on the blue line when looking at the counts. I wonder why cta is dragging so long with getting those 2600s off th blue line and why the line is overfilled. 

Thought they’d all be gone by now as I seen nothing but full set of 3200s 

[Bus1883]

14 hours ago, Busjack said:

I guess I didn;t initially see 126 LTH in the bottom row. That would indicate 192 2600s retired.  Throw in 4 3200s. It's sti;; 52 less than the 7000s received.

Also looks like they wrecked 12 5000s. We know 4 (5599-5560 wrecked on the Yellow Line, and one sent for $900,000 in repairs), but any word on the other 8?

I believe 3451-52 is LTH as well along with 3277-78. We all know 3352 was wrecked at Kedzie after striking a car killing the driver then derailing, tearing up the platform in the impact in November 2010… part of the platform pierced 3352s front. 3435 was hit by a squad car about a month later that same year I believe, and was fixed during the rehabs while the undercarriage equipment was damaged . 3447 was t-boned in November 2015 in the Kimball yard by car 3297. Incidents were both near Kimball station. 

[Shannon tahoeppv]

Some of these cars not even on hold like 3099 3100 & a few others here go my rail sheet cause I had these cars over the week or 2