I took this photo at the Illinois Railway Museum during a very Hot and extremely dry July 1988 summer visit. The State of Illinois and other parts of the midwest were experiencing an extreme Draught condition. Notice the straw brown and yellow wintery looking grass from the lack of rain. This electric streetcar, CTA # 4391 was built by the St, Louis Car Company in 1948, and was one of the last streetcars built and ordered for the recently former Chicago Transit Authority. The CTA was already in the process of phasing out the streetcar lines, and upgrading the Rapid Transit lines instead. Car # 4391 ran until the end of Chicago streetcar service on june 21st 1958, and is the only newer PCC streetcar preserved. The other ones were cut up for scrap, and recycled into 6000 series rapid transit cars.Thursday, June 28, 2007
Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar # 4391. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. July 1988.
I took this photo at the Illinois Railway Museum during a very Hot and extremely dry July 1988 summer visit. The State of Illinois and other parts of the midwest were experiencing an extreme Draught condition. Notice the straw brown and yellow wintery looking grass from the lack of rain. This electric streetcar, CTA # 4391 was built by the St, Louis Car Company in 1948, and was one of the last streetcars built and ordered for the recently former Chicago Transit Authority. The CTA was already in the process of phasing out the streetcar lines, and upgrading the Rapid Transit lines instead. Car # 4391 ran until the end of Chicago streetcar service on june 21st 1958, and is the only newer PCC streetcar preserved. The other ones were cut up for scrap, and recycled into 6000 series rapid transit cars.
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