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Interestingly, chicago-l.org has documentation on the 7000s page that

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At the December 15, 2021 Chicago Transit Board meeting, the CTA Board approved a change order to CRRC's contract that, among other things, authorized the delivery of up to 16 "early production cars", in addition to the 10 prototype cars. This change allowed CRRC to continue delivering cars, but because they were not considered production cars they did not trigger the contractual step of CTA having approved completion of the testing phase, allowing testing and modifications resulting from testing to continue.

 

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3 hours ago, artthouwill said:

Well,  if there were any 7000s sitting in Skokie Shops,  they are stuck there for the foreseeable future due to the Yellow Line accident.  I suppose Skokie is the only place where new cars can be mated? 

Maybe 63rd again? 

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4 hours ago, artthouwill said:

Well,  if there were any 7000s sitting in Skokie Shops,  they are stuck there for the foreseeable future due to the Yellow Line accident.  I suppose Skokie is the only place where new cars can be mated? 

There used to be cars entering property from 63rd which is referred as “Skokie South” it’s best to deliver 7000s there as to what they did to the 5000s when the yellow line was shut down because of the embankment that collapsed in 2015, instead of waiting for the line to reopen.

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11 minutes ago, Bus1883 said:

There used to be cars entering property from 63rd which is referred as “Skokie South” it’s best to deliver 7000s there as to what they did to the 5000s when the yellow line was shut down because of the embankment that collapsed in 2015, instead of waiting for the line to reopen.

That's if it gets that bad though. Supposedly they're gonna move everything out the way by Wednesday so they'll probably just wait. It'd be another thing if it was gonna be a long term thing like the embankment collapse 

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16 minutes ago, Bus1883 said:

There used to be cars entering property from 63rd which is referred as “Skokie South” it’s best to deliver 7000s there as to what they did to the 5000s when the yellow line was shut down because of the embankment that collapsed in 2015, instead of waiting for the line to reopen.

I believe the 63rd Lower Yard once had a direct connection to a mainline RR, just like Skokie did when the 2400s were delivered by the C&NW.

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