CTA "High performance car" acquired by Seashore

Today's news involves a new acquisition of an old car. Chicago Transit Authority car number 1, which for many years has been stored moribund on the property of General Electric in Erie, PA, was recently purchased by the Seashore Trolley Museum. Today it arrived at Kennebunkport courtesy of Silk Road Transportation. This car is the last of the "high performance" 6000-series cars that the CTA owned, a sub-group of eight cars (four single units and two married pairs) that received modifications for high speed operation. It was sold to GE in the 1970s for use as a test car and was later fitted with more modern control equipment, but the body is largely unchanged from its later Skokie Swift configuration, complete with rooftop bow trolleys. The car will need quite a bit of work but it's a unique artifact and it's commendable that Seashore has stepped up to see it preserved.