From The Trolley Dodger blog:
“North Shore Line city streetcar 357 is in Waukegan in 1946, signed for the Naval Station. Streetcar service ended the following year.”
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Streetcar moving southeast on Clark Street past Wrigley Field. This view is looking due north along the tracks that used to be along the west side of Wrigley, which continued parallel to Seminary Avenue. Addison Street is behind the photographer.
Collection of John Smatlak:
"Would love to have been there to see this- a fantrip is underway and some old goodies are being brought out of the carbarn for the benefit of the photographers. Here we see one of the CTA's work cars converted from a retired streetcar; Salt Car AA-10. Taken at 77th & Vincennes (South Shops) 5-19-54. Today the South Shops complex is still in use by CTA for buses, and many of the old streetcar-era buildings remain."
From The Trolley Dodger blog: "William C. Hoffman called this photo, taken at South Shops on November 11, 1956, the 'twilight of the trolley'."
From The Trolley Dodger blog: "CTA red Pullman 863 is northbound on Stony Island at 72nd Street, headed towards Navy Pier."
From The Trolley Dodger blog: The top and middle photo show streetcars and trolley buses at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Larrabee Street in May 1954. Both photos taken by William C. Hoffman, from the William Shapotkin Collection.
Top: Looking north along Larrabee Street. Note the railroad tower that was used for switching Milwaukee Road freight trains that ran along the Kingsbury branch through this intersection. The Montgomery Ward building is at left.
Middle: Looking west along Chicago Avenue. The Montgomery Ward building is at right.
Bottom: Looking west along Chicago Avenue in a current view from Google Maps. The Montgomery Ward building is now occupied by Groupon, among others. Note that the bridgetender's tower for the Chicago Avenue bridge is still standing just to the left of the building.
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CSL 5249 appears to be heading southbound on Larrabee, just north of Chicago Avenue. To the left, you see the Montgomery Ward complex, which has since been turned into residential. 5249 is signed to go to Vincennes and 88th, which probably makes this a Halsted car.”
The street with tracks veering off at left is Kingsbury. The tracks were part of the Milwaukee Road Kingsbury Branch (C&E South Line)
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CTA 7190 heads south on State Street, crossing the Chicago River. Work on the new Chicago Sun-Times building is well underway. It opened in 1958. The following years, Field Enterprises bought the Daily News, and this building became its headquarters as well. It is now the site of the Trump International Hotel and Tower.”
Chicago
Photo by Robert Heinlein
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CTA 7156 heads south on Broadway at Lawrence in Uptown on February 15, 1957, the last day of streetcar service on Broadway. The film Giant, starring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, opened in the US on November 24, 1956, and was playing at the Uptown. You can see the Green Mill lounge a bit south of the Uptown. The Riviera Theater would be just out of view to the left here.”
Chicago
Photo by Robert Heinlein
The CTA station at Fullerton and Sheffield, 1950s.
Note the trolley buses on Fullerton.
From Chicago-L.org:
“Car 325, a wooden gate car originally built for the South Side Elevated by American Car & Foundry in 1905, is southbound on the portion of the Metropolitan Division’s Northwest Branch later known as the Paulina Connector. The one-car train is near Paulina and Fulton, about to traverse the old Met L bridge over the Milwaukee Road/North Western tracks. Judging by the license plates on the cars in the foreground, the photo was taken in 1950, around the same time the CTA began equipping the Logan Square-Loop service with brand-new all-metal 6000-series cars. In the early CTA years, the Met Division Northwest Branch had a number of ex-South Side wood cars assigned, with the cars continuing to cover the Humboldt Park shuttle after the Logan Square service was reequipped with PCC 6000s. Car 325 was scrapped in June 1957.”
(Photo by B.L. Stone, courtesy of the Krambles-Peterson Archive)
From The Trolley Dodger blog:
“This photo of CTA 4391 in Chinatown appears on CERA’s 2014 membership card. The only surviving Chicago postwar PCC car is now at the Illinois Railway Museum.”
(Photo by Charles L. Tauscher, Wien-Criss Archive)
From The Trolley Dodger blog:
CTA 153 is northbound at Halsted and Congress on October 5, 1953. (Wien-Criss Archive)
From The Trolley Dodger blog:
“In 2016, Jeff Wien hired Rick Foss to add realistic color to what had been a black-and-white image, a rare shot of a PCC streetcar passing the entrance of Riverview Amusement Park on Western just north of Belmont in 1956. The results were spectacular.” (Wien-Criss Archive)
From The Trolley Dodger blog: CTA 9375 at the east end of the Montrose trolley bus line, near the Wilson Avenue L station… about to turn south on Broadway. (Jeff Wien Photo, Wien-Criss Archive)
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CSL 1786 under the Lake Street L on November 23, 1952. Note the Chicago Motor Coach yard at right. CMC’s assets had been purchased by the CTA a few months earlier, and were gradually being integrated into regular CTA operations. Bill Shapotkin adds, ‘This pic is actually at Lake/Kenton (not Cicero). The car is E/B’.”
From The Trolley Dodger blog: Chicago Surface Lines 5377 was built by Brill-Kuhlman in 1907.