2200-series (CTA)

The 2200-series was a fleet of 150 Chicago "L" rapid transit cars built in 1969 and 1970 by the Budd Company of Philadelphia for the Chicago Transit Authority. The City of Chicago ordered them for the new Dan Ryan and Kennedy expressway median lines, and their unpainted fluted stainless steel sides were designed to suit the modernist stations by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, a look that became the standard for later CTA cars. They were the second of the five series known as the High Performance Family, and they served on the Lake-Dan Ryan and West-Northwest routes, and from 1993 to 2013 on the Blue Line. Their narrow inward-opening blinker doors could not take a wheelchair, so they ran coupled with 2600-series cars. The last eight made ceremonial runs on August 8, 2013, after 44 years, and most were scrapped, although several survive in preservation.