CTA Surface System History presented by the Illinois Railway Museum

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The numbering system was devised by the late Don Liberko, who worked extensively on cataloging the different styles. It has been enhanced to include new versions.

We are currently working with transfer experts to verify/correct/populate transfer style dates. Currently they are our best estimates. Once solid dates are established (and new styles discovered), the style numbers may change to reflect the correct chronology.

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Style 5a - 07/1934-12/07/1934

Large dot in center of clock added, also Lake Calumet added to map. After 1933 -1934 World's Fair ended, regular transfers were printed late 1934-early 1935 using special yellow paper used for Century of Progress transfers until stock ran out.

  • Archer (38th Br.)
  • Archer (38th Br.) v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Armitage-Center
  • Ashland (Ashland-Downtown)
  • Ashland (Southport) (Ashland-Downtown)

  • North Ashland
  • Belmont
  • Blue Island-26th
  • Broadway-Devon (Thru Route 1)
  • Broadway-State (Thru Route 1)

  • Central
  • Cermak (Lawndale)
  • Cermak (Lawndale) v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Chicago
  • Chicago v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • Cicero
  • Clark-Wentworth
  • Clybourn
  • Cottage Grove (Thru Route 5) (Thru Route 1)
  • Cottage Grove (Thru Route 5) (Thru Route 1) v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • Crawford
  • North Damen
  • South Damen - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Diversey
  • Diversey v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • Division (Division-Downtown)
  • Division (Division-Downtoen) (State)
  • Division-Van Buren (Division-Downtown) (Division Ext)
  • Elston
  • Ewing-Brandon

  • Foster - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Fullerton
  • Fulton-21st (Webster) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Grand
  • Halsted (Halsted-Downtown)

  • Hammond
  • Hammond (Whiting) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Harrison (Adams)
  • Higgins - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Irving Park

  • Kedzie (California)
  • Kimball
  • Kimball v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Lake-State
  • Lake-State v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • Laramie (Noble) (South Cicero) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Lawrence
  • Lincoln-Indiana (Rosehill)
  • Madison (Fifth)
  • Milwaukee (Armitage)

  • Montrose
  • Morgan-Racine
  • Narragansett - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • North
  • Northwest Hwy

  • Ogden
  • Ogden v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Pershing
  • Pulaski
  • Pulaski v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • Pulaski v3 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Riverview-Larrabee
  • Roosevelt (Roosevelt-Downtown)
  • Roosevelt (Roosevelt-Downtown) v2 - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • South Deering (Ext)

  • South Deering (Ext) (Windsor Park) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • State (Lake-State)
  • Stony Island
  • Taylor-Sedgwick-Sheffield
  • Van Buren

  • Wallace-Racine
  • Western
  • Whiting & East Chicago
  • Windsor Park
  • 14th-16th

  • 18th
  • 26th - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • 31st
  • 35th
  • 43rd-Root - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • 47th - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • 47th (Ext)
  • 51st-55th
  • 59th-61st
  • 63rd

  • 67th-69th
  • 71st
  • 74th-75th - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • 79th
  • 87th - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • East 87th (West 87th) (106th) (119th) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • East 87th (West 87th) (Ext) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • 93rd-95th
  • 103rd

  • 106th (115th) (119th) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • 111th
  • Soldier Field



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