Talk:Chicago "L" rolling stock

2400 series not fit for expressway medians?

There needs to be a citation for this edit. The CTA ran the 2400 series on the Lake-Dan Ryan run for years and, as stated, on the Red Line when the 2600 series was being rehabbed. Also, I know the 2600 series design to be nearly identical to that of the 2400 series, so I don't see why it couldn't be used on expressway medians. Finally, they run the 2400 series work trains down the the 95th yard all the time, to move around supplies and so forth. The 2400 series not being fit for expressway median use just doesn't seem likely to me, especially given the interoperability all cars from the 2000 series on have. —BorgHunter (talk) 04:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the 2400's were moved to Lake-Dan Ryan to replace now long retired 2000 series. It was the 2000's that were discovered to have problems running in the medians due to the salt used on the roadways in winter getting into the traction motors and damaging them. The 2000's were moved to what was then the Englewood-Jackson-Park-Howard line. There is no real reason the 2400's can't be run in the expressway medians, except that the CTA decided they be assigned solely to the Green & Purple lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.156.210 (talk) 03:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Chicago 'L' rolling stock

Yes i like to edit Chicago 'L' rolling stock but i can't and i want it to be unprotected because i like to make some changes so please whoever protected it please unprotect it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.217.36.249 (talk) 23:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Individual articles for each series

I just create individual articles for each current car series. I haven't created articles for any retired series, though I think at the very least the 4000 series on should have their own articles (it'd probably be a bit cluttered for each of the wood series to have their own articles, plus the locos for the Alley and Lake Street 'L's). I followed a de facto naming convention for those five articles: xx00 series (Chicago 'L'); all future articles should follow that. Not sure what to do when someone gets around to creating the 1947 5000s article...move the current one to 5000 series (2009 Chicago 'L') and disambig? Leave the new one there and have the old ones as 5000 series (1947 Chicago 'L')?

Also of note, the 'L' template at the bottom of each 'L'-related article got updated, and should be updated for each new series to get its own article. There's probably a fancible way to differentiate between retired and current stock, hopefully someone can come up with one. Also remember to add each new article to the category I created for the articles I just wrote.

Finally, we should maybe think about moving information on each car out to the individual articles, and have mostly tables left here. I'm thinking something like this. What do you guys think? —BorgHunter (talk) 02:02, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

File:CTA red line rerouted.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:CTA red line rerouted.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on January 6, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-01-06. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 19:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A 2600 series car of the Chicago 'L' rapid transit system. The rolling stock of the 'L' consists of 1,190 rail cars (all permanently coupled into 595 married pairs) dating from 1969 to 2011. With 594 active cars out of a total of 600 built, the 2600 series is by far the most abundant in the 'L' rolling stock.Photo: Daniel Schwen

2000 series also had sliding doors? Or is there another series missing?

Maybe my memory has faltered? But I recall (as a child) from at least 1976 until 1982 (and probably until much later than that), seeing stock similiar to the picture for the 2000 series (Media:HAER-ChicagoL-16-detail01.jpg), but with sliding doors. The units were air-conditioned (windows could not be opened). The exterior was white (or unpainted?) with a thin red & blue (bi-centenial) horizontal stripe across the middle, and I think the botttom half below the stripe was painted gray. The exterior could have been fiberglass or aluminum, just as the 2000 series is described. Another distinguishing feature: rather than flat like most other cars, the ends of the car we're somewhat curved. Again, this could be similiar to the picture for the 2000 series, but possibly even more rounded than that.

I first noticed these cars during the 70's on lines other than the Howard A/B trains (during my rare trips downtown), but by 1981 these cars would also be regularly seen (as a minority) on the Howard A/B line. I don't recall seeing these cars in consists with other series. These were the first sliding door cars that I personally recall actually seeing on the Howard A/B lines (while the 2400 series was a contemporary that was not yet being used on the Howard line).

One possible explanation is that later cars of the 2000 series were built with sliding doors? Another explanation, of course, is that I'm just confused about what I remember. Perhaps somebody with better access to historical materials could research this?

A Carbine Flash (talk) 23:30, 12 August 2012 (UTC)