CTA train strikes and kills woman February 1, 2009 3:44 AM ET CHICAGO - Authorities say a Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit train has struck and killed a...
Please Forward to Anyone Intested in Transportation Advocacy: The next monthly meeting of CTA - Citizens Taking Action, for transit dependent riders, will be...
... fighting for the senate seat for any excitement. ... Seems that a while back here, the question was raised, whether Illinois or Minnesota had the more...
Tpaw wanted a Fed position and was upset when McCain picked Palin. It was obvious he left with a huff.  He is against new taxes which means that the...
... My preference is for Samuel Insull or Bion J. Arnold (I actually knew his grandaughter, she was the wife of a Penn State faculty member when I was there.)...
... First, I suggest you join the Yahoo Loconotes group and pose your question there. Here's the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LocoNotes/messages By...
... Interesting. Insull brought large amounts of cash for improvements and Britton I. Budd. The question is, did Insull operate the "L" long enough to make a...
Posted at www.CTAriders.org <http://www.ctariders.org/> Citizens Taking Action for transit dependent riders Article in today's NY Times - transit agencies in...
Sent to you by Kristian via Google Reader: Woman struck by Metra train on South Side via Chicago Breaking News on 2/6/09 A woman was hospitalized in serious...
I returned home late enough from downtown Friday night to be affected by single tracking in the Dearborn subway. Not a lot of interest was happening on the...
... I don't remember for sure. But as I recall, the 1983 and 1984 extension from Jefferson Park to O'Hare was the first CTA line with CTC, or bidirectional...
... I've never heard beeps from the cab signal system whilst in Dearborn. ... CTA's signalling practices are truly ancient. It's not entirely justified by ...
As I recall, the introduction of CTC on the Jefferson Park to O'Hare extension turned out to be much ado about nothing. Whenever I asked any operating people...
... mechanical device? ... In Britain, traditionally a "token" is the authority to occupy a section of single track. In its simplest form, only one token for...
... railroads in the US. But it ... movements" or "single line ... Actually in the UK at the moment, Have a meeting this aft. where I can inquire vis a vis...
... Yes as it turns out one of the guys at this aft. meeting worked in operations for BR early on in his career. He made significant overtime money working as...
It might have been because with the state of computerization at that time (1980s) the system tended to crash (the program, NOT the trains!) while all movements...
Message 3: Bill makes sense in Message 1 when he implies the coming of CTC made pilots unnecessary in CTC territory. However, CTA still used pilots after CTC...
... CTC was many decades old by 1982 and definitely in widespread use on mainline railroads starting in the 1950's. I am shocked and horrified that a ...
Keep in mind that was the Age of Reinvention. Consultants got big bucks to figure a way around someone else's patents under the guise of research grant to...
On the news today, they asked Daley what the city would do if it gets stimulus money. He apparently said there is 15 miles of public transit that needs...
February 10, 2009 - REDEye (Chicago) Blue Line stop a safety concern Keep your eyes peeled, riders. "Going Public" is going train-spotting after hearing about...
... When they re-built the Dan Ryan segment of Red, pilots were there to pass two trains at a time in the work sections. Also, the Lake Street 'L' was using...
... time (1980s) the system tended to crash (the program, NOT the trains!) while all movements were right-hand, ao someone had to go to Rosemont (?) to reboot...
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