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A vintage black-and-white photograph of Chicago Surface Lines streetcar 3359 on a city street, with its destination sign reading 'Cottage Grove Ave' and an ad for Lincoln Park Zoo on the front. The car is on a street lined with buildings and has a Coca-Cola sign on a building above it. — Download original ↓

1952 · 4 and Wabash

Chicago Surface Lines Master Unit streetcar 3359, operating on the Cottage Grove Avenue line, photographed in the 1930s or 1940s.

Date: 1952
Location: 4 and Wabash
Vehicle: Streetcar
Operator: Chicago Surface Lines
Equipment: Master Unit
Fleet numbers: Chicago Surface Lines 3359

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