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 19a - c12/1960

Three lines of writing at bottom of front.

  • Addison (Limited) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Archer (Express) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Ashland (Downtown) (Southport) (35th) (Stock Yards) (Loomis)
  • Belmont (Armitage)
  • Blue Island-26th

  • Broadway
  • California, South (Cicero, South)
  • Central (Limited)
  • Cermak (Douglas Park Ext)
  • Cermak

  • Chicago
  • Cicero (Austin)
  • Clark
  • Cottage Grove (Depot Shuttle)
  • Damen, North (Foster-Central)

  • Diversey (Logan Square) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Division
  • Douglas (Ohio Depots) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Douglas Ext
  • Elston-Clybourn (Elston)

  • Evanston RT
  • Foster-Northwest
  • Foster-Northwest (Bell & Howell)
  • Fullerton (Ext)
  • Grand

  • Halsted (Downtown)
  • Halsted, South (Western, South) (Kedzie, South)
  • Harrison (Adams)
  • Irving Park
  • Jackson (Express) (Depot Shuttle) (Washington) (Express) - Plate CB3

  • Jackson (Jackson Exp) (Washington) (Washington Exp) - Plate CB4
  • Jeffery (Limited) (Depot Shuttle) (Drexel-Hyde Park) (Hyde Park)
  • Kedzie-California
  • Kedzie-Homan (Western, North)
  • Kimball (Harlem) (Devon-Cicero)

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

  • Milwaukee (Limited) (Depot Shuttle)
  • Milwaukee (Limited) (Devon-NW Exp)
  • Montrose (Skokie-Howard)
  • North (Limited) (Lake)
  • North-Narragansett-Irving Park (Laramie)

  • Ogden (Ext)
  • Pershing
  • Peterson (Higgins) - Plate CP
  • Peterson (Bell & Howell) (Higgins) - Plate CP2
  • Pulaski

  • Pulaski, South (Morgan-Racine)
  • Roosevelt
  • Sheridan (Limited) (Lunt-Touhy) (Devon) (Depot Shuttle) - Plate CT3
  • Sheridan (Limited) (Lunt-Touhy) (Devon) (Depot Shuttle) - Plate CT4
  • South Chicago-Ewing (Express)

  • South Deering (Windsor Park)
  • South Park (Limited) (Yates-95th) (Depot Shuttle)
  • State (Depot Shuttle)
  • Stony Island
  • Taylor-Sheffield (Roscoe) (Belmont, East)

  • Vincennes-111th (119th-Vincennes) (Riverdale)
  • Wallace-Racine (Canal-Wacker) (Damen, South)
  • Wentworth
  • Westchester (Skokie)
  • Western

  • Wilson-Michigan (Express) (LaSalle) (LaSalle-Sheridan Exp) (Depot Shuttle)
  • 16th-18th - Plate DG
  • 16th-18th - Plate DG2
  • 26th-31st (31st, West) (63rd-65th)

  • 35th
  • 43rd-Root (Stock Yards)
  • 47th (Ext)
  • 51st

  • 59th-61st (Marquette)
  • 63rd (Limited)
  • 67th-69th (55th)
  • 74th-75th (83rd)

  • 79th (Ext) (71st)
  • 93rd-95th (87th) (115th)
  • 103rd-106th (111th, East)
  • Special Event



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