CTA Surface System History presented by the Illinois Railway Museum

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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), they will be shared here.

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c1952-1953 - CMC/CTA Orange paper, Red Route, Red Date (with year) and Serial Number, Blank Back.

  • 52 Addison (54 Lunt)
  • 33 Austin (42 Union Station)
  • 53 Clarendon-Wilson (56 LaSalle-Wilson) (Bathing Beach)
  • 34 Diversey (55 Howard-Ashland)
  • 36 Douglas (57 Ohio St-Depots)

  • 1 Drexel & Hyde Park (2 South Parkway & Hyde Park)
  • 26 Jackson (Planetarium) (27-Independance)
  • 4 Jeffery (2 South Parkway & Hyde Park)
  • 6 Michigan-Garfield (NW Station) (Loomis-Mq)

  • 49 Parking Lot-Merchandise Mart (48 Grant Park) (29 Fair)
  • 51 Sheridan Rd (Express)
  • 3 South Parkway (NW Station) (Bathing Beach)
  • 31 Washington



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