Re: Digest Number 316

Thanks Andrew,I find the Chicago system fascinatin.'I'll do some more
reading when I get some time.Meanwhile back in the Queen City of the
South I went out to work this morning early and came across a Combino
at St.Georges and Scotchmer on the down at 0545ish on test,later in
the day 983 made an appearance in Spencer St.showing Special[not
Sorry,not in Service],only saw it at a distance but it appears to
have had a bit of a touch up with the paint brush,pretty soon we are
going to have more variety in tramcars than we've had for a
while,can't wait.Regards all Peter Bruce.PS.any Melbourne tram
fans,I'm going into the old railfans pub,the Grosvenor Tavern,in
Equitable Place in the City on Thursday night,I'll be there after
about 7pm,any takers?? --- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "David Young"
<dayoung007@h...> wrote:

,maybe you can enlighten me about CSL,I assumed that it was a

unified system

and within the Chicago city boundaries connecting in various places

with

other tramway entities,is this so?Thanks,Peter Bruce.


CSL. Sort of yes, sort of no. Yes, unified on paper, yet it was

more than a

paper transaction requirement that saw CSL order cars for itself

both in the

name of Chicago Railways Co. and in the name of the Chicago City

Railway Co.

right up to the last PCCs--which the new CTA, (which brought in the

EL lines

and abolished the CRCo. and CCRCo. among other things) immediately

tried to

cancel and then instead had virtually the lot recycled into PCC El

cars (new

bodies, but all parts, trucks, motors, controls, and the rest from

PCC

streetcars.)

Prior to 1930, I guess this was a surface manifestation of the

agreement

which combined these and other underlying companies into the CSL,

but with

CSL's bankruptcy in 1930 these odd inconvenient quirks were frozen

into

quasi-permanence so the receiver and the bankruptcy judge could

preserve the

assets intact before deciding whether to liquidate, sell or re-

organize.

A. D. Young



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