5000 Class Leader
Bombardier car 5001- first in its series- leads a rush-hour CTA Pink Line run bound for Cicero and 54th/Cermak high over the Eisenhower Expressway and Forest Park Branch of the Blue Line. The midesection of the Sears Tower is to the left.
This location was once home to Marshfield Junction, a complex and important spot on the Metropolitan West Side Elevated, where that company's Logan Square, Garfield Park, and Douglas Park branches all converged to become a four-track line to the Loop. In the early CTA era of the 1950s, the Garfield Park elevated was demolished piecemeal and replaced by a line in the median of the Congress (now Eisenhower, I-290) Expressway, the first rapid transit line in the world to be built in such a place. Today this is the Forest Park Branch of the CTA Blue Line.
5000 Class Leader
Bombardier car 5001- first in its series- leads a rush-hour CTA Pink Line run bound for Cicero and 54th/Cermak high over the Eisenhower Expressway and Forest Park Branch of the Blue Line. The midesection of the Sears Tower is to the left.
This location was once home to Marshfield Junction, a complex and important spot on the Metropolitan West Side Elevated, where that company's Logan Square, Garfield Park, and Douglas Park branches all converged to become a four-track line to the Loop. In the early CTA era of the 1950s, the Garfield Park elevated was demolished piecemeal and replaced by a line in the median of the Congress (now Eisenhower, I-290) Expressway, the first rapid transit line in the world to be built in such a place. Today this is the Forest Park Branch of the CTA Blue Line.