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Inside the CTA’s Biggest Body Shop for Trains

Inside the CTA’s Biggest Body Shop for Trains

Go behind the scenes at the Skokie Shops Heavy Maintenance Facility, where CTA trains go for their tune-ups, clean-ups – and sometimes total overhauls. Hear from maintenance worker John Perkovich, who talks about the specialty craftsmen who work in the shops, what it takes to keep the trains running, and what working for the CTA means to him.