Chicago 'L' car leaves Noblesville

This news is a couple of weeks late, but a Facebook post here confirms that one of the 4000s at the Indiana Transportation Museum has, indeed, been moved to the RAIL Foundation site in Michigan City. It's impossible to tell from the photo but other sources suggest that this is car 4293, built by Cincinnati in 1922. It was acquired by ITM directly from the CTA and was the second 4000 to operate in Noblesville. It seems that after car 4454 (recently scrapped) was taken out of service, apparently in the 1980s, car 4293 was fixed up and painted in 1920s Chicago Elevated green and orange. It ran until sometime around 1999 or so, when it suffered a failure and was taken out of service, thus closing out forever the era of traction operation in Forest Park. I recall riding it in about 1996 and then seeing it again in 2001, by which time it was in the workshop and partly disassembled.

Anyway, car 4293 was in the best condition of the 4000s at ITM so it's good to see it saved. Its move to Michigan City makes it the first electric car to leave Noblesville intact since Chicago Aurora & Elgin 308 was sold to the Illinois Railway Museum back in 1996.