Western 2100S / 2400W
Just barely past sunset on a spring Sunday, CTA Pink Line run 314 pulls into the Western station on the Cermak Branch, headed for Cicero and (just barely) Berwyn. Almost completely rebuilt in the early 2000s, when service here was provided by a branch of the Blue Line, this route was originally the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad's Douglas Park Branch, named for the large park it passed (and still does). Extended westward in short sections over the years, by 1924, the line reached Oak Park Avenue in Berwyn. This would only be the terminus for 28 years though, as in 1952, as part of a broader series of service "revisions" by the then-new CTA, the branch was cut back to its current endpoint at 54th & Cermak, just barely inside the village limits of Berwyn (the terminal station there was actually once known as Cicero-Berwyn).
Western 2100S / 2400W
Just barely past sunset on a spring Sunday, CTA Pink Line run 314 pulls into the Western station on the Cermak Branch, headed for Cicero and (just barely) Berwyn. Almost completely rebuilt in the early 2000s, when service here was provided by a branch of the Blue Line, this route was originally the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad's Douglas Park Branch, named for the large park it passed (and still does). Extended westward in short sections over the years, by 1924, the line reached Oak Park Avenue in Berwyn. This would only be the terminus for 28 years though, as in 1952, as part of a broader series of service "revisions" by the then-new CTA, the branch was cut back to its current endpoint at 54th & Cermak, just barely inside the village limits of Berwyn (the terminal station there was actually once known as Cicero-Berwyn).