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.

Click on the desired route below to see the hi-res transfer image. PLEASE USE YOUR BROWSER'S "BACK" BUTTON TO RETURN TO THIS PAGE. Routes in parenthesis are on the transfer, but not the main route listed.

Style 10a - 02/1948 or 03/1948

Revised CTA form, footer in all caps and reworded replacing "Lines" with "Division", also route combinations changed to reduce number of forms, blue date and serial number.

  • Archer (Express) (Ext)
  • Archer (Local) (Express)
  • Armitage (Chicago)
  • Ashland (Downtown)
  • Austin (Riverdale) (Laramie) (Jeffery)

  • Belmont (Ext) (Grand) (Bus)
  • Blue Island (Ogden) (Ext)
  • Broadway-State (Bus) (Clark-Wentworth)
  • California, North (California, South)
  • Cicero (Ext) (Narragansett)

  • Clybourn (Higgins) (S. Chicago-Ewing)
  • Cottage Grove (TR 5) (Southport)
  • Division-Van Buren (Downtown D V) (Ext)
  • Foster-Northwest Hwy (Ext) (Montrose)
  • Fullerton (Ext) (43rd-Root)

  • Halsted (Ext) (Downtown)
  • Harlem (Kimball) (Kimball-Homan)
  • Irving Park (Ext) (Lawrence)
  • Kedzie (California) (Ext)
  • Lake-State (North) (Ext)

  • Lincoln-Indiana (Rosehill) (Downtown)
  • Lincoln-Indiana (Downtown) [Rosehil Discontinued 08/01/1948] - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • Madison (Fifth) (Harrison) (Adams)
  • Milwaukee (Armitage) (Elston) (Ext)
  • Morgan-Racine (Damen, North) (Ext)

  • Pulaski (Ext) (Central) (Ext)
  • Roosevelt (Downtown) (Cermak)
  • Soldier Field - Image courtesy Andre Kristopans
  • South Deering (Ext) (Windsor Park)
  • Stony Island (Canal-Wacker)

  • Taylor-Sedgwick-Sheffield
  • Taylor-Sheffield (Howard)
  • Touhy (Peterson) (Diversey)
  • Wallace-Racine (Damen, South) (Ext)
  • Western (Ext)

  • Western
  • 14th (16th-18th) (Pershing)
  • 14th-16th (18th) (Pershing)
  • 47th (Ext) (35th)
  • 51st-55th (26th) (31st)

  • 51st-55th (Ext) (26th) (31st) - Image courtesy Bruce Moffat
  • 59th-61st (Ext) (67th-69th)
  • 59th-61st (67th-69th)
  • 63rd (Ext)

  • 79th (Ext) (111th, East) (111th, West)
  • 87th (Ext) (103rd-106th)
  • 93rd-95th (Ext) (74th-75th)
  • 119th-Vincennes (71st) (115th) (83rd)



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