Equipment Information

Chicago Transit Authority 6655 is an aluminum-bodied PCC type ‘L’ car that was built using recycled components from retired CTA streetcars. Car 6655 is permanently coupled to identical car 6656 to form a “married pair” set.

FUN FACT: For the bicentennial in 1976, the CTA painted several sets of ‘L’ cars in patriotic colors and gave them names commemorating Revolutionary War figures or events. Cars 6655-6656 were named after George Rogers Clark, a Brigadier General in the Continental Army nicknamed the “Conqueror of the Old Northwest” who led a force that captured and defended vast expanses of territory in the Ohio, Wabash, and Mississippi Valleys that had formerly been held by the British.

Builder: St. Louis Car Company
Year Built: 1957
Seats: 47
Length: 48ft
Width: 9ft 4in
Height: 11ft 10in
Weight: 44000 lbs
Brakes: All Electric
Motors: 4 WH 1432LK
Control: XDA1G-B2A
Trucks: StL B3
Description: Single End / Double Truck / Arch Roof / PCC
Arrived: 1993
Condition: Complete / unrestored / operational

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Ownership History
1957-1993 – Chicago Transit Authority
1993-present – Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL

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