Retired Chicago Transit Authority 6000 series rapid transit cars. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. August 2000.

I took this photo on an August 2000 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum, located in Union Illinois.

These former Chicago Transit Authority lightweight rapid transit cars, were built during the 1950's using recycled electrical and interior components from retired and scrapped CTA PCC Green Hornet electric streetcars. These economical rapid transit cars worked all over the CTA Rapid Transit network untill the early to mid 1990's. retirements began taking place during the mid 1980's, with some becoming demoted into Maintenance of way work motors.
The two cars shown here, are modified with trolley poles to accomodate operation over the Illinois Railway Museum's overhead wire equipped mainline and trolley loop. The color scheme on these two units is from the 1980's /1990's era. The two units were retired and donated in this color scheme.