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They seem to be going after the Orange line cars in the #3300's. First #3311-12, then #3375-76, #3363-64, #3367-68 get rehabbed all from the orange line. Then they keep going down the #3300's from #3314 now all the way down to #3305 and the #3290's are creeping in. I bet they go after #3369-70 and #3373-74 next and the few other #3300 sets they have. Maybe they intend to let them have the #3290's to #3314 eventually once they work out all the kinks. I guess it's too much trouble to send a car all the way south and it has problems. 

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3 hours ago, BusHunter said:

#3339-40 is now fully rehabbed. This is the second pair now that was rehabbed that had LED signs already.

NIce pics. Not being facetious when I say this: like the effect of the chain link fence in the foreground. 

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1 hour ago, rvwnsd said:

NIce pics. Not being facetious when I say this: like the effect of the chain link fence in the foreground. 

On channel 20.2, there was some sort of indigenous hip hop in front of a similar scene, and they confirmed it was in Chicago.

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The newest rehabbed pair showed up this afternoon in Kimball yard, #3399-#3400. I snapped some pictures of them. This week they started running a set with 6 cars rehabbed. They have ran that set all week, today though it was in a different configuration (first 6 cars instead of one of the middle ones left unrehabbed)

#3399:

cta 3399 new rehab.PNG

#3400:

cta 3400 new rehab.PNG

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2 minutes ago, BusHunter said:

The vandals hit #3423 in the door pretty good over here at Kimball yard. Since that is an unrehabbed car, I would just send that one to Skokie for rehab. Problem solved. 

How do they manage to get in a yard and walk over to their intended targets to tag them with all those active third rail tracks? Touch one of those and *ZAP*!!!!

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4 hours ago, Lost on Belmont said:

Given that the rehabbed cars are having their roller curtains replaced with LED displays, has anyone tried getting a sign box from CTA?

That's a good question. In days of yore, CTA would sell the rolls off. Maybe they show up on the gift site some day.

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12 hours ago, Busjack said:

That's a good question. In days of yore, CTA would sell the rolls off. Maybe they show up on the gift site some day.

Or auctioned off. I believe that's how chunks of Madison/Wabash met their fate. I occasionally see some CTA roll signs pop up on eBay when searching for model trains, but they are the old A-B-All Stop roll signs.

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9 minutes ago, MTRSP1900-CTA3200 said:

Or auctioned off. I believe that's how chunks of Madison/Wabash met their fate. I occasionally see some CTA roll signs pop up on eBay when searching for model trains, but they are the old A-B-All Stop roll signs.

That did remind me that there was the auction a couple of years ago, including of apparently defective bus stop signs.

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7 hours ago, MTRSP1900-CTA3200 said:

Or auctioned off. I believe that's how chunks of Madison/Wabash met their fate. I occasionally see some CTA roll signs pop up on eBay when searching for model trains, but they are the old A-B-All Stop roll signs.

I've seen roll signs, on auction, but never the box itself. I've got one of the curtains from '92 that has all the old route names, but also the new color designations. It was from a 3200, so it would be nice to be able to install it in the proper mechanism.

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3 hours ago, Lost on Belmont said:

I've seen roll signs, on auction, but never the box itself. I've got one of the curtains from '92 that has all the old route names, but also the new color designations. It was from a 3200, so it would be nice to be able to install it in the proper mechanism.

Ah, now I get what you're saying. I've seen a complete setup like what you've described, but it was from the Boston Green Line. No such luck here.

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31 minutes ago, jajuan said:

A good number of 3200s assigned to the Orange Line must be going through rehabs from looking at how the current car counts for the Orange Line show only 66 3200s assigned while the other 108 cars are 2600s.

Alot of times I see more #3200's in the yard than in service in the afternoons. You'll be lucky if you see one complete set of #3200's and maybe a mixed #3200 and #2600 set in service. Probably those all go out in the morning for brownages. The #3403-04 car set I saw was on the middle track that has #2699-#2700, #2789-90 and #2799-#2800 and those cars don't really go anywhere like they are some kind of out of service/work train. It's possible #3403-04 was there for some service Midway does that Kimball shop don't do. For example didn't they say Midway, 54th and maybe Harlem shops were the only place with wheel truing machines. I haven't yet seen it in service.

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21 hours ago, BusHunter said:

Alot of times I see more #3200's in the yard than in service in the afternoons. You'll be lucky if you see one complete set of #3200's and maybe a mixed #3200 and #2600 set in service. Probably those all go out in the morning for brownages. The #3403-04 car set I saw was on the middle track that has #2699-#2700, #2789-90 and #2799-#2800 and those cars don't really go anywhere like they are some kind of out of service/work train. It's possible #3403-04 was there for some service Midway does that Kimball shop don't do. For example didn't they say Midway, 54th and maybe Harlem shops were the only place with wheel truing machines. I haven't yet seen it in service.

I saw an Orange Line train a few days ago where the first two cars had LED destination signs. The numbers were not 3207-3208 (formerly the only cars on the Orange Line with such signs). I think they were 3249-3250 but I may be mistaken. It was sunny outside so I couldn't tell if the interior lights were LED or not (the telltale sign of a full rehab). They could be getting some back to Midway that have been rehabbed, or maybe moving some from the Brown Line. If they need more cars, it'd be nice if they had some extras on other lines. OH WAIT! They have plenty of extra 5000s on the Green and Pink lines! Shame they're too biased to move those. >:(

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Yeah you should see howard yard in the rush a good 50-100 cars just sit there. I past Rosemont yard the other day and the cars were so old and grimy I thought maybe they were going for a grunge look. Someone please clean up those cars at least. A vintage fleet at least looks better when it's clean.

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Just now, BusHunter said:

Yeah you should see howard yard in the rush a good 50-100 cars just sit there. I past Rosemont yard the other day and the cars were so old and grimy I thought maybe they were going for a grunge look. Someone please clean up those cars at least. A vintage fleet at least looks better when it's clean.

I agree completely. They just neglect all their old cars, and usually the new ones too. I've only seen clean 5000s on the Purple Line; the rest are disgusting. They just don't have their priorities in order at all.

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On 4/11/2016 at 6:24 PM, BusHunter said:

The vandals hit #3423 in the door pretty good over here at Kimball yard. Since that is an unrehabbed car, I would just send that one to Skokie for rehab. Problem solved. 

#3423-24 showed up this week on the Brown line. What CTA did was wrap it. It has a new full car wrap for some brand I didn't recognize. I guess that's one way to cover it up. They could probably have easily got the vandalism off the metal but the rubber sashes might have been a problem with some ghosting of the graffiti.

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