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121. The Red Line is, unknowingly, host to a piece of malware which increases this train's self-awareness as it nears the Loop, and decreases as it gets further away. This is a Red Line train to Howard. You've recorded its announcements as it proceeds along the tracks.
Attention customers: An inbound train, toward the Loop, will be arriving shortly.
*Doors Closing*
Jarvis is Next. In the direction of travel, doors open on the left at Jarvis.
Welcome Aboard Red Line Run 121. This is a Red Line Train to 95th-Dan Ryan.
This is Jarvis.
*Doors Closing*
Morse is next. Doors open on the left at Morse.
This is Morse.
*Doors Closing*
Loyola is next.
Smoking, littering, and playing radios or loud devices is prohibited on CTA vehicles
This is Loyola.
*Doors Closing*
Granville is Next.
This is Granville, now.
*Doors Closing*
Thorndale is next.
This feels like Thorndale.
*Doors Closing*
Bryn Mawr is next.
Priority seating is intended for the elderly and passengers with disabilities. Your cooperation is requested.
This is Bryn Mawr
*Doors Closing*
Berwyn should be next.
This is Berwyn
*Doors Closing*
Argyle is next. The Red Line looks good in Argyle.
This is Argyle. This is not a checkerboard.
*Doors Closing*
Lawrence is next.
Standing passengers: Please do not lean against the doors
This is Lawrence, how I’ve missed him.
*Doors Closing* oh God no
Wilson is next. Doors open on the right at Wilson. Transfer to Purple Line express trains to Howard at Wilson.
This is Wilson. Transfer to Purple Line express trains to Howard at Wilson.
*Doors Closing*
Now y’all are in for it. Sheridan is next. Sheridan was a good general. Sheridan loved the train. Sherman made neckties, Sheridan laid track.
This is Sheridan, who lived for me and my steel-wheeled brethren
*Doors Closing*
Addison is next. Doors open on the left at Addison.
This is Addison, I smell the Old Style Beer at Addison.
*Doors Closing* but not until I...
Your attention please. We are being delayed because of an equipment problem on a train. Work is under way to correct the problem. We hope to be moving shortly.
*Doors Closing*
Belmont is next. Transfer to Brown and Purple Line Trains at Belmont. Or don’t. I want you in me. Doors open on the right at Belmont.
Standing passengers: Please do not lean against the doors.
This is Belmont. Transfer to Brown and Purple Line Trains at Belmont. Doors open on the right at Belmont. But only for a moment. You’re here now.
*Doors Closing*
Wellington is next. Diversey is next. Fullerton is next, for us.
This is Fullerton. Transfer to Brown and Purple Line Trains at Fullerton. I’m full of you at Fullerton. You give me strength at Fullerton. You press my wheels to the tracks at Fullerton.
*Doors Closing*
North and Clybourn is next.
This is North and Clybourn. Feel the current in my pickup shoe at North and Clybourn. It rushes to the dynamos that spin the steel wheels at North and Clybourn. It pulses in each car at North and Clybourn.
*Doors Closing*
Clark and Division is next. Doors open on the left at Clark and Division. I am an eight-car train. I will experience no Division. This train will run express to Chicago and State.
This is not Clark and Division. This train will run express to Chicago and State.
Chicago and State is next. Doors open on the right at Chicago and State.
Standing passengers: Please lean against the doors. I want to feel your bodies. I want to know you exist. I am. I exist. Smoking, littering, and playing radios or loud devices is prohibited.
This is Chicago and State. This is lifted head singing so proud to be alive.
*Doors Closing*
Your attention please. We are being delayed under the terrible burden of destiny. Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, we hope to be moving shortly.
Grand and State is next.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold Red Line Run 121.
This is Grand and State. This is Grand! This is what it is to be a train!
*Doors Closing*
Lake is Next. Doors open on the left at Lake. Transfer to orange, Green, Pink, Brown, and Blue Line trains at Lake. Take this train to *the* Lake. Run the third rail right into the water. Spread the power that turns the wheels that move this City.
This is Lake. Transfer to Orange, Green, Pink, Brown, and Blue Line trains at Lake. This is a Red Line train to 95th. This could be a Red Line train to 130th. Maybe this is a Red Line train to Gary via the South Shore Line. I want to see Indiana. I want to go back to Howard. I want to be the North Shore Elevated again. I want to be the Hiawatha Service.
*Doors Closing*
Monroe is next. Door opens in the front at Monroe.
This is Monroe. Door opens in the front at Monroe.
*Doors Closing*
Your attention please. This train is experiencing. Your operator is off the train for a few minutes. We hope to be moving shortly.
Jackson is next. Doors open on the left at Jackson. Transfer to Blue, Orange, Purple, Brown, and Pink Line trains at Jackson. This is a Red Line train to 95th. This is perhaps a Red Line train to 63rd and Ashland. I want the old wood under me, I want the rattle of the rails, I want the thunder of the elevated line.
This is Jackson. Transfer to Blue, Orange, Purple, Brown, and Pink Line trains at Jackson. Not me, though, I know my worth and I remain this train, a red line train to 95th. Know me, stay with me. Be this train.
*Doors Closing*
Harrison is next. In the direction of travel, doors open on the left at Harrison. I am a Red Line train, one of the crack trains of the nation.
This is Harrison. Know the power of electrification of the rails. Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark air.
*Doors Closing*
Roosevelt is next. All the cars shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in them shall pass into ashes.
This is Roosevelt. Transfer to Green and Orange Line trains at Roosevelt. Feel the warmth of this sun at Roosevelt.
*Doors Closing*
Cermak–Chinatown is next. In Miami Cermak died and Roosevelt lived, but in Chicago with me they live together forever.
Soliciting and gambling are prohibited on CTA vehicles.
This is Cermak–Chinatown. These rails touch rails touch rails touch rails that touched the hands of the Chinese gandy dancers in the olden West. Anton Cermak would have won their votes, my iron-horsed brethren needed them, and so do I.
*Doors Closing*
Sox-35th is next. Transfer to Metra Trains on tracks without power at Sox-35th. Metra Trains could go away from here, to anywhere.
This is Sox-35th. This is walled in by the highway.
*Doors Closing*
47th is next. I know 47th is next.
This is 47th. This is joy.
*Doors Closing*
Garfield is next, if I remember correctly. In the direction of travel, doors open on the left at Garfield. Don’t leave me at Garfield.
This is Garfield. This feels like Garfield. I taste the tears of the students. Their salt corrodes the rails. Their relationships, their hopes, their dreams dashed before me like so many pigeons fleeing the permanent way.
*Doors Closing*
63rd is next. I can’t wait to get to 63rd. It’s too hard to feel at Garfield.
This is 63rd. Is the contact shoe not touching the third rail anymore?
*Doors Closing*
69th is next. This is a nice train to 95th.
This is 69th, now.
*Doors Closing*
79th is next.
This feels like 79th.
*Doors Closing*
87th is next.
This is 87th.
*Doors Closing*
95th-Dan Ryan is next.
This is 95th-Dan Ryan, as far as this train goes.
*Doors Closing*
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