BusHunter Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 #5585-86 was in a red line consist tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chgofan78 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Currently riding on 5591-5592 on the Red Line. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter.pyterek Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Currently riding on 5591-5592 on the Red Line.BusHunter still needs to add it to the roster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Currently riding on 5591-5592 on the Red Line. it's the last two cars of run #920 if anyone wants to take a picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Shots of #5587-88 @ 95th. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter.pyterek Posted December 28, 2014 Report Share Posted December 28, 2014 Shots of #5587-88 @ 95th.it still needs to be put in the roster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chgofan78 Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 5589-5590 and 5593-5594 are the last four cars on a Red Line train about to leave Howard shortly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 5589-5590 and 5593-5594 are the last four cars on a Red Line train about to leave Howard shortly. They were still running #2600's this week on the Red Line, but it only seems to be one consist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 5589-5590 and 5593-5594 are the last four cars on a Red Line train about to leave Howard shortly.that's run #817 if anyone's interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon93 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 There should be 2 consist of 2600's because I saw 2 consist on Monday, but unless one of those sets got shifted to Purple or another line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter.pyterek Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 There should be 2 consist of 2600's because I saw 2 consist on Monday, but unless one of those sets got shifted to Purple or another line.Or that could have been the same consist that maybe you saw twice at different parts of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon93 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Or that could have been the same consist that maybe you saw twice at different parts of the day. I am pretty good at memorizing numbers especially on ends that's how I know I'm not crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter.pyterek Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 How long before 5569-70 are put in service? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 How long before 5569-70 are put in service?It's been in service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter.pyterek Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 It's been in service.BusHunter still hasn't put it in the roster though. Are they on the Red or Purple? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 BusHunter still hasn't put it in the roster though. Are they on the Red or Purple?It's currently on the Red Line. We have to wait and see how this is going to be straightened out with the roster when #5599-5600 and #5601-02 arrives because Red and Purple Lines are near capacity with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 It's currently on the Red Line. We have to wait and see how this is going to be straightened out with the roster when #5599-5600 and #5601-02 arrives because Red and Purple Lines are near capacity with them. If that is the case, we'll only have to wait a couple of weeks to get an answer one way or the other on Orange Line speculation. FINALLY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 If that is the case, we'll only have to wait a couple of weeks to get an answer one way or the other on Orange Line speculation. FINALLY!Indeed but keep in mind that it can be some unexpected scenarios too like the Yellow Line trumped Purple Line when getting a share of the 5000s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 It's currently on the Red Line. We have to wait and see how this is going to be straightened out with the roster when #5599-5600 and #5601-02 arrives because Red and Purple Lines are near capacity with them. You might still have a small wait as they still have a few #2600 cars on the Purple line, but maybe by #5630-40 we should see something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 It's been in service. since when? I haven't seen it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon93 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 since when? I haven't seen it. They've been in service for a minute. I've seen 5591-92 & we're close to seeing 5600's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 They've been in service for a minute. I've seen 5591-92 & we're close to seeing 5600's No wonder I haven't seen it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 Indeed but keep in mind that it can be some unexpected scenarios too like the Yellow Line trumped Purple Line when getting a share of the 5000s. The only contingency like that is if Howard 98th, and Linden Yards are not, like the Monty Python Cheese Shop ("Well it's so clean." "It certainly is uncontaminated by cheese"), contaminated by 2600s, the 5000s will have to go somewhere else. I'm assuming that the 1360 or so cars now on the roster actually are being used and about 170 2600s are going to be scrapped sometime during 2015. But you are right that any assumption is probably out the window. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 since when? I haven't seen it. They've been in service for a minute. I've seen 5591-92 & we're close to seeing 5600's I saw all four of them a couple days ago and I couldn't get shots of #5591-92 because I was going the opposite way. About the roster, I don't know about any roster changes after they reach up in the 5630s. The cut off is #5167-68 (I just saw it as I'm typing this right now) on the Green Line. Do Red, Yellow, and Purple need approximately 460-70 of them though? It wouldn't make sense because of the capacity concerns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 I saw all four of them a couple days ago and I couldn't get shots of #5591-92 because I was going the opposite way. About the roster, I don't know about any roster changes after they reach up in the 5630s. The cut off is #5167-68 (I just saw it as I'm typing this right now) on the Green Line. Do Red, Yellow, and Purple need approximately 460-70 of them though? It wouldn't make sense because of the capacity concerns. A tight roster would probably be 360 something for Red. (like they are now) and 90 for Purple. I'm figuring they might go 370-380 for Red line and maybe 90-100 for Purple. That would mean they are about 30-40 off that mark. At that point it becomes a matter of where do the #2600's go that's assigned to Red/purple. They have to go somewhere because Howard yard is full at that point. They could always send those to 61st yard or Racine yard as they might have a little space or even 54th/Cermak yard as it has capacity for 100 cars. But really they are retirement bait, it's just a matter of shifting what they want and what they don't want. In the future I think they will downsize the fleet on the Red and Purple and the Orange line will end up with a 100 #5000's. Then they will have to actively retire #2600's unless there's a secret place for 200 cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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