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The CA&E in Cleveland..........

After CA&E passenger service ended in 1957, a group of 10 steel cars were to be sold to Cleveland, for use on a proposed airport extension of one of the rapid transit lines.

Sadly, the extension was delayed until 1969; the group of handsome, still-serviceable CA&E cars were scrapped..........

"NYO"

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Had the CA&E survived......

It is interesting to ponder what car builder might have provided new rolling stock to the CA&E; recall, a good chunk of the roster was made up of elderly cars over 50 years old.

ST. LOUIS?

ACF?

PULLMAN?

BUDD?

Perhaps the cars would have been similar to the new MUs then in service on the NYC and NH, running out of GCT in New York........

"NYO"

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The wooden open platform "L" cars in Chicago were especially long-lived; the last were not retired until 1957, with most cars then being over 50 years old.

These venerable cars were virtually identical to those used in New York; however, the Chicago cars did not have roof-mounted markers (as seen here) and used steel coil tension springs between cars, another practice not followed on NY's elevateds......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?14818

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["EVANSTON"]

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Interesting to note that the CRT's wooden "L" cars (those with enclosed ends and railroad roofs) closely resembled the big interurban cars that then served Chicago via the "L".........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?14815

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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