>>1411912>Following the withdrawal of service to downtown Chicago, there were several plans put forth to save and restore passenger service, including two proposed by the Chicago Transit Authority in 1956 [...] The second plan would have required far less construction, but would not have provided a one-seat-ride to downtown Chicago. All service would have been provided by PCC streetcars that had been specially reequipped to pick up power from the third rail. These streetcars would operate as single car shuttles between the Forest Park terminal of the new Congress branch and a new Wheaton station located on the east side of Main Street. The new station would have consisted of a single platform on the outside of a turning loop built to facilitate the return of the single-ended PCCs to Forest Park, while the old station (and presumably everything west of Main Street) would have most likely been demolished.UGH... what COULD of BEEN...
