![]() ![]() is the most prestigious home on the Chicago real estate market today - a 25,000-square-foot, custom mansion in the heart of Lincoln Park featuring six bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and an unparalleled 177' x 149' parcel that spans more than eight city lots. You can make a contribution there as well.Īs we have said before, “If you buy here, we will be here.Spectacular in presentation and scale, 1932 N. You can help us continue our original transit research by checking out the fine products in our Online Store. To date, we have received over 201,000 page views, for which we are very grateful. ![]() This is our 159th post, and we are gradually creating a body of work and an online resource for the benefit of all railfans, everywhere. To film buffs, it was sort of like the Ebbets Field of revival movie houses, something long gone but fondly remembered, an important part of the old Chicago Loop: By this time, the 4000-series cars, which were originally designed to operate individually as well as in multiple units, were being used as semi-married pairs.įYI, we have started a new blog devoted to the old Clark Theater, which ran two different movies every day of the year from more than 20 years. On May 26, 1963, a Central Electric Railfans’ Association fantrip train makes a photo stop on the CTA team track at South Boulevard in Evanston. A station house was located at the north end of the inbound platform.” (George Trapp Collection) The Central Avenue yard was soon closed and the station’s island platform was eventually replaced with a set of side platforms. Budd notified Wilmette officials of his extension intentions and, despite opposition that quickly developed, the line was extended on April 1, 1912. In February 1912, Northwestern President Britton I. There were also new riders to be had in the nearby suburb to the north, Wilmette. (Later converted to motor buses, the line essentially became the Evanston Bus Company’s Route #1, then the CTA’s #201 Central-Sherman bus, now the #201 Central-Ridge.)īy 1912, the Northwestern had outgrown its terminal at Central Street. ![]() Transfer was also available to the Evanston Electric Railway Company’s streetcar line, which ran along Central and then south on Sherman to downtown Evanston. Paul’s tracks for a few years from Linden Avenue in Wilmette to Church Street in downtown Evanston, where their terminal was located just a block from the “L”‘s Davis Street station. The C&ME had already been leasing the St. Central Street also served as the main transfer point between the “L” and the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric interurban (ancestor of the North Shore Line). A small yard was built at Central Street, south of the station, for car storage, although its capacity was modest. The tracks and station were at ground-level, as was the entire Evanston extension of the Northwestern, as the “L” simply electrified the existing ground-level steam railroad’s tracks. According to : “The Central Street terminal consisted of a simple high-level wooden island platform and small headhouse at the north end of the platform near the street. ![]()
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