Chicago Transit Authority #6656         
Old scan: Disconnected from its mate #6655, it is shown sitting in Yard 8. Part of the #6601 – 6670 group, ordered from the St Louis Car Company (Job 1792) on September 25, 1956 at a cost of $58,000 per unit. In the early 1975 it was repainted for the upcoming bi-centennial and named “George Rogers Clark.” It received a mini-overhaul in 1986 and repainted to “Spirit of Chicago” scheme seen below. It became the property of the Illinois Railway Museum in 1993.
Date: 7/15/2001 Location: Union, IL   Map Show Union on a rail map Views: 344 Collection Of:   Tim Fennell
Locomotives: CTA 6656(Electric M.U.)    Author:  Tim Fennell
Chicago Transit Authority #6656
Picture Categories: This picture is part of album:  IRM 2001
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