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 17b - c02/1957

Same as 17a but with blue date and serial number.

  • Addison (Limited) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Archer (Express) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Ashland (Southport) (Stock Yards) (Downtown) (35th-Halsted) - Plate BC
  • Ashland (Southport) (Downtown) (Southport) (35th) (Stock Yards) (Loomis) - Plate BC2
  • Belmont (Armitage)

  • Blue Island-26th
  • Broadway
  • California, South (Cicero, South)
  • Central (Limited)
  • Cermak (Douglas Park Ext)

  • Chicago
  • Cicero (Austin)
  • Clark
  • Clark-Wentworth
  • Cottage Grove (Depot Shuttle)

  • Damen, North (Foster-Central)
  • Diversey (Logan Square) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Division
  • Douglas (Ohio Depots) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Elston (Clybourn)

  • Elston-Clybourn (Elston)
  • Evanston RT (Skokie) (Westchester)
  • Foster-Northwest
  • Fullerton (Ext)
  • Garfield (Limited) (Indiana) (Depot Shuttle)

  • Grand
  • Halsted (Downtown)
  • Halsted, South (Western, South) (Kedzie, South)
  • Harrison (Adams)
  • Irving Park

  • Jackson (Express) (Depot Shuttle) (Washington) (Express) - Plate CB2
  • Jackson (Express) (Depot Shuttle) (Washington) (Express) - Plate CB3
  • Jeffery (Limited) (Depot Shuttle) (South Shore) (Hyde Park) - Plate CC
  • Jeffery (Limited) (Depot Shuttle) (South Shore) (Hyde Park) - Plate CC2
  • Jeffery (Limited) (Depot Shuttle) (Drexel-Hyde Park) (Hyde Park) - Plate CC3

  • Kedzie-California
  • Kedzie-Homan (Western, North)
  • Kimball (Harlem) (Cicero, North) - Plate CF
  • Kimball (Harlem) (Devon-Cicero) - Plate CF2
  • Lawrence (Ext) (Bathing Beach) - Plate CG

  • Lawrence (Montrose-Lawrence) - Plate CG2
  • Lincoln-Larrabee (Lincoln-Wabash)
  • Madison
  • Michigan-Indiana (Garfield) (Depot Shuttle) (Limited)
  • Michigan-State-Wacker (Independence) (Monroe Parking Lot) (Depot Shuttle)

  • Milwaukee (Limited) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Montrose (Skokie-Howard)
  • North (Limited) (Lake)
  • North-Narragansett-Irving Park (Laramie)
  • Ogden (Ext)

  • Pershing
  • Peterson (Higgins)
  • Pulaski
  • Pulaski, South (Morgan-Racine)
  • Roosevelt

  • Sheridan (Limited) (Lunt-Touhy) (Devon) (Depot Shuttle)
  • South Deering (Windsor Park)
  • South Chicago-Ewing (Express)
  • South Park (Limited) (Yates-95th) (Depot Shuttle) (Bathing Beach) - Plate CX2
  • South Park (Limited) (Yates-95th) (Depot Shuttle) - Plate CX3

  • State (Depot Shuttle)
  • Stony Island
  • Taylor-Sheffield (Roscoe) (Belmont, East)
  • Vincennes-111th (119th-Vincennes) (Riverdale)
  • Wallace-Racine (Canal-Wacker) (Damen, South)

  • Wentworth
  • Western
  • Wilson-Michigan (Express) (LaSalle) (LaSalle-Sheridan Exp) (Depot Shuttle)
  • 16th-18th
  • 26th-31st (31st, West) (63rd-65th)

  • 35th
  • 43rd-Root - Plate DJ
  • 43rd-Root (Stock Yards) - Plate DJ2
  • 47th (Ext)
  • 51st-55th

  • 59th-61st (Marquette)
  • 63rd (Limited)
  • 67th-69th
  • 74th-75th (83rd)
  • 79th (Ext) (71st)

  • 93rd-95th (87th) (115th)
  • 103rd-106th (111th, East) - Plate DS
  • 103rd-106th (111th, East) - Plate DS3
  • Soldier Field



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