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I want to put in a plug for CTA's "Skokie Swift," which runs nonstop from Howard Street and Paulina on the Chicago/Evanston boundary to Dempster near the Edens Expy (I-94) in Skokie -- five miles in seven minutes. The route includes, cut, trestle, and ground level views. Just recently the Skokie Swift was taken off the catenary, but the stancions (sp?) are still there. Up until then the Swift took bimodal electricity: shoe in Evanston and pantograph in Skokie. I am posting this because this is the last operant piece of the old North Shore. Most people think the North Shore went thru Linden Street in Wilmette and followed C&NW footage north, which it certainly did, but the Skokie Swift is part of the old "Skokie Valley" cutoff. One of the smartest, most proactive things the CTA ever did back in the late sixties was to revitalize this one last stretch (abandoned since 1963). And it MAKES money!
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