A single 450-series car makes up an eastbound train leaving Wolf Road on April 8, 1951. Click here for a larger version.
Photo by HM Stange, from the Krambles-Peterson Archive

It's September of 1953 and we're looking west out of Market Tower on the Garfield park "L". Car 451 is at the end of a three car train passing over Union Station. The Canal station is in the distance. Note the eastbound deadhead train with North Shore woods. By the end of the month, service will be cut back to Forest Park and CA&E trains will never operate over the "L" again. Click here for a larger version.
Photo by G Krambles, from the Krambles-Peterson Archive

We are facing west out of the side of a steel car stored in Wheaton Yard. Three 450-series cars are lined up in this shot. These were the newest cars on the railroad, having only been in service for twelve years when the railroad shut down. It was hoped to sell these cars to another transit operator, but the sale never came. Click here for a larger version.
Photo by Jim Dyer

Car 456 and another 450-series car are stored in Wheaton Yard sometime after the shutdown, On the next track ovver is car 427, a product of the Cincinnati Car Company. In the background on the right are the old and new dispatcher's towers. Click here for a larger version.
Photo by Don Bruno