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 8a - 02/1943

E (emergency), Depot Car, Half Fare boxes eliminated, replaced by small E and D boxes east of Loop in lake on map. 1/2 in a circle above upper left of clock. This style had 4 different backs. 2 vertical, 2 horizontal. Also there were 4 different signatures at the bottom of these backs.

  • Archer (38th Br) (Ext)
  • Ashland (Southport) (Downtown)
  • Austin - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Austin [Line extended] - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Austin (Jeffery-100th) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat

  • Belmont (Ext)
  • Blue Island-26th
  • Broadway-State (Lake-State) (TR 1)
  • Central (Ext)
  • Cermak (Lawndale)

  • Chicago
  • Cicero (Bus)
  • Clark-Wentworth
  • Clybourn (S. Chicago) (Higgins)
  • Cottage Grove (TR 5) (TR 1)

  • Damen, North (Damen, South) (Wallace-Racine)
  • Division-Van Buren (Downtown) (Division Ext B C)
  • Division-Van Buren (Ext B C) (Division-Milwaukee Downtown) (VanBuren Downtown)
  • Elston (Ext)
  • Fullerton (Ext) (Foster-Northwest Highway)

  • Fulton-21st (Webster)
  • Grand
  • Halsted (Ext) (Halsted-Downtown) (Vincennes)
  • Harrison (Adams)
  • Irving Park (Ext) (43rd-Root)

  • Kedzie (California) (Ext)
  • Kimball-Homan (Kimball) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Lincoln-Indiana (Rosehill) (Downtown)
  • Lincoln-Indiana (Rosehill) [Small print] - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Madison (Fifth)

  • Milwaukee (Armitage)
  • Montrose (Ext) (59th-61st)
  • Morgan-Racine (Armitage)
  • Narragansett (Laramie)
  • North (Ext)

  • Odgen (Ext)
  • Pershing (Ext) (14th-16th) (18th)
  • Peterson (Diversey)
  • Pulaski Rd (Ext)
  • Pulaski Rd (Bus)

  • Pulaski Rd (Bus) [Small print] - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Riverview-Larrabee (Riverdale)
  • Roosevelt (Downtown)
  • Soldier Field - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • South Deering (Ext) (Windsor Park)

  • Stony Island (Ewing-Brandon)
  • Taylor-Sedgwick-Sheffield
  • Western
  • 26th (35th) (115th) (119th)
  • 31st (51st-55th)

  • 47th (Ext)
  • 63rd (Ext)
  • 67th-69th
  • 71st (Ext) (79th) (Ext)

  • 71st (Bus) (79th) (Bus) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • 74th-75th (83rd)
  • 87th (Ext) (103rd-106th)
  • 95th (Ext) (111th) (Ext)



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