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 In February 1936 the Chicago Surface Lines ordered 83 PCC cars from St.Louis Car Co. Fifty cars purchased in the name of the Chicago Railways Co. and were numbered 4002-4051 and 33 cars were purchased by Chicago City Railway Co., numbered 7002-7034. Deliveries were started in the fall of the same year and they entered revenue service on the Madison Avenue line at November 13, 1936. By February 1937 all 83 cars were in service. The Chicago's 50 feet and 5 inches long cars were the first non-standard PCC's. Painted dark blue from the belt rail down, the 1936 PCCs were known in Chicago as "Blue Geese".
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