CTA 6000s return to Chicago

It appears that today was the day that CTA 6101-6102, the preserved set of 6000-series "spam cans" at the Fox River Trolley Museum, were loaded and transported back home to the Chicago Transit Authority. There they join a pair of 4000s and a handful of buses in the CTA's new "historic collection," a project headed up by Graham Garfield of the CTA. The plan, supposedly, is that Skokie Shops will rebuild (and presumably repaint) the 6101-6102 so that they can be operated for special events, similar to how the 4000s are used. The cars had been sold to FRTM in 1994 with the provision that they could not be operated carrying passengers, and as such had always been on static display at South Elgin. Back with the CTA, they will presumably see use on their home rails and may at some point be joined by more 6000s. Only time will tell on that point.