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[Shannon tahoeppv]

The derailment we had at rosemont yard i forgot to post these 

[EasyMoney]

8094

[artthouwill]

Glad I don't have to travel through downtown this weekend with no elevated trains running in the Loop. 

[Busjack]

30 minutes ago, artthouwill said:

Glad I don't have to travel through downtown this weekend with no elevated trains running in the Loop. 

@strictures started a topic, not that your subjective feeling about it matters.

[pokemonprime]

Former CTA #1011 in it's second life as a work bus was downtown this weekend. Spotted earlier this afternoon outside Adams/Wabash, but it was also around Saturday night.

[Busjack]

Tribune: "Man found underneath Brown Line tracks fell from moving train in Lakeview: autopsy"

"Chicago police said they found the 26-year-old man, whose identity hadn’t been released, on the ground unresponsive in the 3400 block of North Ashland Avenue around 2:40 p.m. Monday."

"It was unclear exactly how the accidental fall occurred. The spot where the victim’s body was discovered sits underneath Brown Line tracks and several blocks from the nearest train station."."

[strictures]

8 hours ago, Busjack said:

Tribune: "Man found underneath Brown Line tracks fell from moving train in Lakeview: autopsy"

"Chicago police said they found the 26-year-old man, whose identity hadn’t been released, on the ground unresponsive in the 3400 block of North Ashland Avenue around 2:40 p.m. Monday."

"It was unclear exactly how the accidental fall occurred. The spot where the victim’s body was discovered sits underneath Brown Line tracks and several blocks from the nearest train station."."

Actually, it's just one long block from the Paulina station.  My guess is he was drunk, went onto the tracks at Paulina & then manged to walk on the ties & then fell off.

[Busjack]

3 hours ago, strictures said:

Actually, it's just one long block from the Paulina station.  My guess is he was drunk, went onto the tracks at Paulina & then manged to walk on the ties & then fell off.

I was thinking more along the lines of a NY subway car roof surfer, but I don't think the police will ever find out.

[strictures]

3 hours ago, Busjack said:

I was thinking more along the lines of a NY subway car roof surfer, but I don't think the police will ever find out.

I've never heard of the roof surfing here. It appears to be a NYC problem, exclusively.  They don't even try it on those few 3200s that still have the roof boards leftover from when the Swift had the pan trolley poles.

[Sam92]

27 minutes ago, strictures said:

I've never heard of the roof surfing here. It appears to be a NYC problem, exclusively.  They don't even try it on those few 3200s that still have the roof boards leftover from when the Swift had the pan trolley poles.

I remember asking someone if their trains shake/tilt and bounce as bad as they do here cause that alone is probably enough to make people not try that here. Can you imagine trying to maintain balance on top of a Red Line roaring between Belmont and Fullerton? There are some jogs that you don't really slow down that much

[Busjack]

7 hours ago, strictures said:

Actually, it's just one long block from the Paulina station.  My guess is he was drunk, went onto the tracks at Paulina & then manged to walk on the ties & then fell off.

 

3 hours ago, Busjack said:

I was thinking more along the lines of a NY subway car roof surfer, but I don't think the police will ever find out.

Seeing the article again, the headline was "fell from a moving train," which is where I got the surfing idea. I don't know how the medical examiner could tell. Maybe there were some train scraps on the body.

[Jackson232]

4 hours ago, Busjack said:

I was thinking more along the lines of a NY subway car roof surfer, but I don't think the police will ever find out.

This is from the Sun Times. Looks like he wasn’t on top of the train.

[Busjack]

44 minutes ago, Jackson232 said:

This is from the Sun Times. Looks like he wasn’t on top of the train.

That clarifies it. I suppose the car cameras caught it.

[Shannon tahoeppv]

Is the the junkie ass 600's been retired already since they are lined up in the boneyard all these from C 

[wayfaringrob]

On 10/30/2025 at 2:24 PM, strictures said:

I've never heard of the roof surfing here. It appears to be a NYC problem, exclusively.  They don't even try it on those few 3200s that still have the roof boards leftover from when the Swift had the pan trolley poles.

I saw it once on the blue line as it passes over the 606. Balanced between cars, even.

[Bus1883]

2 hours ago, Shannon tahoeppv said:

Is the the junkie ass 600's been retired already since they are lined up in the boneyard all these from C 

Kinda junkie that CTA is retiring their electric buses I thought they’re transitioning to all electric fleet

[Busjack]

15 hours ago, Bus1883 said:

Kinda junkie that CTA is retiring their electric buses I thought they’re transitioning to all electric fleet

And I thoughy there was a topic on electric buses where this question was answered.

[Javi75]

Why are blue line trains only running to UIC? No Forest Park trains at all on the tracker. 

[Sam92]

1 hour ago, Javi75 said:

Why are blue line trains only running to UIC? No Forest Park trains at all on the tracker. 

Weird glitch I guess. Probably the same reason Purple Line expresses arrivals show up off peak or on the Dan Ryan. The map shows them more or less alternating as usual

[18thalek]

anyone have any pictures of the 54 or 53 with articulated busses back during COVID? I remember riding those two routes during that time and I kinda miss the artics. Couldn't find any pictures online

[Sam92]

21 minutes ago, 18thalek said:

anyone have any pictures of the 54 or 53 with articulated busses back during COVID? I remember riding those two routes during that time and I kinda miss the artics. Couldn't find any pictures online

If not here definitely Facebook. I've found pics of artics on those routes as well as 60 and believe or not 24 Wentworth. Im pretty sure there's a pic of one on 54 here. I know a 53A artic is on here as well as some wild sightings we found on the trackers (8A, a block that had N95 [which is N5 on maths22])

[18thalek]

3 minutes ago, Sam92 said:

If not here definitely Facebook. I've found pics of artics on those routes as well as 60 and believe or not 24 Wentworth. Im pretty sure there's a pic of one on 54 here. I know a 53A artic is on here as well as some wild sightings we found on the trackers (8A, a block that had N95 [which is N5 on maths22])

thanks for the tip. do you know what fb groups I should join to find those? appreciate it

[Sam92]

2 minutes ago, 18thalek said:

thanks for the tip. do you know what fb groups I should join to find those? appreciate it

CTA Transit buses and trains

Bus fan's boulevard 

Buses in the USA and Canada

for starters

I know for sure an artic on either 54 or 53 is on here somewhere by the guy that drove out of Chicago Garage cause I actually asked the same lol

[Sam92]

37 minutes ago, 18thalek said:

anyone have any pictures of the 54 or 53 with articulated busses back during COVID? I remember riding those two routes during that time and I kinda miss the artics. Couldn't find any pictures online

 

https://chitransit.org/topic/1542-more-bus-moves/page/447/#comments

Here's artics on 54

[18thalek]

4 minutes ago, Sam92 said:

 

https://chitransit.org/topic/1542-more-bus-moves/page/447/#comments

Here's artics on 54

thanks for the picture. i'll keep looking for the 53.

its crazy to think the 8A and 53B had artics at one point. I truly can't think of a reason for that.

When I was a little kid, maybe about 10 or 12 years ago, I remember seeing artics on Archer and, I want to say Kedzie(?), in hingsight, i would presume that was for Kelly and Curie HS trips. I wonder when they stopped doing those.