Floor leval interior view of a CTA 6000 series rapid transit car doorway. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. August 2006.

I took this photo in August of 2006, at the Illinois Railway Museum located in Union Illinois. One of the high leval doors of a Chicago Transit Authority 6000 series rapid transit/ subway car was found to be open while I was walking through a display barn. This is yet another behind the scenes view, of the restoration of an operating museum exhibit. Those two tone green interior colors, where also used on Chicago Transit Authority buses during the 1950's.

As a young boy growing uo in Chicago during the 1960's and 70's, I could remember riding the CTA electric trolleybuses on the route # 52 Kedzie / California Avenue line, as well as the 1940's and 50's era GM "Old Look" TDH Series buses, and the Twin Coach propane buses that all featured this color scheme. The old buses were largely retired by 1972 and 73, but some of the CTA 6000 series cars held on to this interior color scheme into the mid 1980's.