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  by buddah
 
Just something interesting I thought Id put out there for all CTA fans, as I use to be a daily rider of the red and orange lines. I always like to see whenever one of the google vehicles passes by and catches a CTA Train in action.. Was there Any places you happen to be viewing at Google map street view and saw a CTA train in action. ether Directly or indirectly. in front, beside, above, or behind. Anyone happen to find any more, please post.

heres two that I caught........
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.9 ... 0528343062

4 car blue line train exiting o'hare airport.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&lay ... 45068&z=15

8 car blue line train on the eisenhower expressway at the western - forest park stop.
  by doepack
 
Good stuff, thanks. But I've gotta say It's pretty weird that Google's street view feature allows a perspective right in the middle of an expressway, LOL :-D
  by EricL
 
Not really. They got all the photography by driving cars all over the place which had special 360-degree cameras mounted on top of them. It's not like they had guys standing out in the middle of the Kennedy. :-)
  by ohioriverrailway
 
Bet they didn't get hassled for taking pictures without permssion!!
  by buddah
 
ohioriverrailway wrote:Bet they didn't get hassled for taking pictures without permssion!!
that a good one we should link this post to the invisible ban on photography topic...
"like to see them try to catch me at 55 mph! :wink: "