There was constant column footing replacement going on since the early 80's. On any given day 2 or 3 were under repair, usually nowhere near each other. Each...
Most of the footing problems on Lake manifested themselves with the structure developing a sag at that bent. The uprights were being literally hammered into...
Your perceptions and my perceptions are 180 degrees apart, and it would appear that your priorities and mine are about the same degree apart. I have ridden...
Hello, my name is Mike Payne. I am a lifelong resident of the South side of Chicago, and I have been a typewriter repairman for the past 28 yrs. I am also the...
Good Morning, Chicago Transit: CTA's "improvements" for the last quarter of 1948 have been announced. Included were the substitution of the 3 North Side...
Actually how long it really takes to make a trip varies almost trip to trip. Depends on which routes that particular trip connects with, for instance. A trip...
Good Morning, Chicago Transit: It was 55 years ago when, because of enthusiastic public acceptance of the 6 experimental air-conditioned cars placed in service...
Contrary to poplular opinion a "blue light" does not really mean all that much. All it means is that the main circuit breaker popped on that car. Maybe it...
... Lattice versus web plate are equivalent strength. Lattice would have been more labor-intensive to install; many more pieces. Note that much of Lake Street...
Yesterday was the 10th aniversary of openning of the Midway/Orange Line. When the line openned I was on the first line southbound from the Loop, I had and...
A series of viaducts in Evanston have required immediate replacement for 15 years. At the hearing Thursday night, Ald. Moore (Rogers Park) brought along a ...
Hey Tony...ever hear the saying "Early bird catches the worm?" There was activity at all Orange Line stations (free donut holes at five of them) but, it was...
I read somewhere recently that CTA has committed to replace the crumbling and shored up viaducts at Main and Dempster in Evanston. Trains run VERY slow between...
... No. Main Street "L" station isn't being rebuilt. Money to design Main and Dempster (why Dempster, which has Douglas-level boarding, I don't know) stations...
... I now have about a half dozen of the State Street Subway commemorative transit cards, but I haven't encountered any to commemorate the Orange Line ...
There used to be a problem on the Orange Line pretty regularly with 3200s that I really haven't seen since the mid-90s. Could have been a fluke that I seemed...
You know, it sounds like each stop on the system qualifies as fair game for bus destinations. Probably just thousands of separate location objects, that can...
OPTO I agree is sad, but mostly because I think of the conductors on the other lines affectionately. There was just something cool about how it was a team...
I know, I know. It's these damned flex hours that kill me. I do understand supply and demand, of course. Heh. I still feel second-class though! I'm a daily...
... Not doing obscure locations like Schreiber loop, or Pueblo on Addison or Nina on Milwaukee? It was always silly that such destinations were used on sign ...
Not only is 63rd lattice work, the cross members to not rest directly on the uprights, but have a strange kind of "angle mount", unlike anything else in...
Except that Broad St Philadelphia went OPTO in the 80's, and didn't Market-Frankford also, with their new cars? Even NYCTA converted a couple of minor lines...
Certainly you can rebuild reinforced concrete structures. It was done in New York with the Queens Blvd viaduct that #7 runs on. It isn't cheap, though. About 5...
Hi Y'aal, As a structural design drafter/CAD operator specializing in both reinforced concrete and steel bridge construction design, please let me add my...
In New York off the top of my head the Franklin Shuttle, TimesSquare/Grand Central Shuttle, the G Crosstown on the weekends,one ofthe Rockaway shuttles, and...
... No one with any clout. I objected. It's not as if CTA redesigned the CABS for one-man operation, PATCO style. I objected to walk across the cab at...
