Loose Ends, Part Two

July 20, 2020July 8, 2022David Sadowski 15 Comments

Now here is a very unusual view, taken on April 14, 1957 from the wooden trestle used by Garfield Park “L” trains to loop around at Forest Park circa 1953-59. This arrangement was necessary due to the separation of CTA and CA&E tracks, when the latter cut back service due to the Congress Expressway construction project in the city. Interurban trains turned on a loop between the CTA tracks on the east side of the terminal, while CTA trains went up and over the CA&E on the west end. To get this picture, the photographer either had to be inside a train, or on the walkway. This is only the second such picture I have seen, and the view looks to the north. In the background, you can see the Chicago Great Western freight tracks, abandoned in the early 1970s. The terminal area has been redone twice since then, and the buildings at right in the background are where a parking lot is now. The Altenheim retirement home (at left), built in 1886, is still there today at 7824 W. Madison Street. A two-car train of CTA “Baldy” 4000s negotiates the loop.

Here are more “loose ends” for your enjoyment. Most of today’s pictures were scanned a year ago as part of a much larger batch, and are from the collections of William Shapotkin, for which we are most grateful. Most of these are classic black-and-white pictures of Chicago Surface Lines streetcars.

If you have questions, comments, or additional information about any of the locations in these pictures, we would love to hear from you. As always, please refer to each image by its file name, which you can find by hovering your computer mouse over it. (For example, the image at the top of this post is rbk501.) As of July 22nd, thanks to our readers, we have updated the captions on 20 of these photos.

Enjoy!

-David Sadowski

Recent Finds

What is known today as the East Troy Electric Railroad survived to the present day due to its continued use as an electric freight line, as this scene from April 16, 1965 shows. Once part of the TMER&L interurban network, there was passenger service between East Troy and Milwaukee from 1907 to 1939. The railroad continued to operated freight for another ten years after that, and starting in 1950, the interchange line was owned and operated by East Troy. Museum operations began to be phased in as early as 1967. Here, we see line car M-15 at Mukwonago. This car is now at the Illinois Railway Museum.

CSL PCC 4062, on its way toward delivery from the Pullman plant in Massachusetts to Chicago in 1946, as the city’s first postwar streetcar.

Through a process of elimination, it can be determined that this is a rare photo of the interior of experimental CSL pre-PCC car 7001, built by Brill in 1934. The Cottage Grove destination sign means we are in Chicago, and the seat configuration is different than the 1936 PCCs. The flat back window means this is not the 4001, so this is the 7001 for sure. Interestingly, the seats looks nearly identical to those found in Washington DC pre-PCC 1053 (see the following picture). The Washington cars were built in 1935 and while the order was split between Brill and St. Louis Car Company, the seats were most likely sourced from a third vendor and were the same in all those cars (and unfortunately, none exist today).

Here are some pictures we previously posted of 7001 and 1053:

The experimental Brill-built pre-PCC 7001 as it appeared at 77th and Vincennes on September 10, 1959, shortly before it was scrapped. (Clark Frazier Photo)

DC Transit pre-PCC streamlined streetcar at the National Capital Trolley Museum in 1993. Part of a 20-car order in 1935, split between Brill and St Louis Car Company. This is a St. Louis Car Company product. Sadly this car was lost to a carbarn fire at the museum in 2003. (John Smatlak Photo)

1053 interior. (John Smatlak Photo)

From the Collections of William Shapotkin:

CSL 6226 at Damen and 63rd in 1944.

CSL 6073 at Roosevelt and Wabash.

CSL prewar PCC 4002 at Kedzie Station, pulling in after operating on the Madison-Fifth line.

CSL 6148.

CSL 1812, signed for Adams-Downtown.

CSL 6122,

CSL 1545.

CSL 1859 is near a construction site. But the extreme contrast of this picture offers no clue to the location. Andre Kristopans: “1859 at construction site WB on Adams at Clinton.” Marty Robinson adds, “This improved view clearly show Adams on the street sign, and the sign on the building to the left says Franklin Bowling.”

CSL 3180.

CSL 3123 at Cermak and Prairie, east end of the Cermak route.

CSL 2617.

CSL 6235 on the South Chicago-Ewing route. Mike adds, “6235 is heading south on Ewing just past 94th. The bar in the background still exists.”

CSL 392 is heading to 74th and Ashland.

CSL 6243 on the Pershing Road line.

CSL 6248 is on the South Chicago-Ewing route. Mike adds, “6248 is heading north on Ewing across the 92nd St. Bridge. The tower in the background is visible in the photo of 6235, too. The blast furnaces of Youngstown Sheet & Tube are visible at left.”

CSL 793, signed to go to Damen and Blue Island, is near Diamond Lil’s Tavern. Mike adds, “793 is at the corner of 18th & Damen – the Diamond Lil’s building is still standing.”

CSL 3120 on a 1940s charter. Mike adds, “3120 is at the corner of 79th & Vincennes. The building in the background recently burned down and was demolished.”

CSL 5723,

51st and South Park, circa 1929. The Willard Theater was located at 340 E. 51st Street. It closed in the 1950s, and the building is now used as a church and community center.

South Chicago and 93rd.

CSL 3266, running on the 59th-61st Street route. Mike adds, “3266 is heading south on Blackstone from 60th. The street has been vacated and none of the buildings remain.”

The interior of CSL 1400.

CSL 1616 heads west on Lake Street in the 1940s, with the Lake Street “L” station at Laramie in the background. The “L” went down an inclined ramp and ran on the surface to Forest Park, and paralleled the streetcar line for a few blocks.

CSL 4035, in an experimental color scheme, at Madison and Austin circa 1945-46. Several different designs were tried out just prior to the arrival of the 600 postwar PCCs, but the design chosen was not exactly like any of these.

State and Randolph, June 18, 1942.

CSL 4018 in an experimental paint scheme circa 1945-46. This is the Madison-Austin loop, west end of Route 20.

CSL 6149 is southbound at Halsted and Chicago.

CSL 6135 at Pershing and Ashland.

CSL 3099. Mike: “3099 is at the corner of Leavitt and Coulter. The corner building still stands.”

CSL 5733.

CSL 5612. Mike adds, “5612 is heading west on 56th from Stony Island. Bret Harte School is at left and in background are both the older and newer wings of the Windermere Hotel.”

CSL 1841. Not sure where Burny’s Grill, at right, was located.

CSL 1836, signed to go to Van Buren and Dearborn.

The interior of CSL 1218.

Chicago & West Towns 165, signed for Melrose Park. I am wondering if this could be on Lake Street in Maywood.

SF Muni double-end PCC 1008.

Chicago & West Towns 164 is eastbound on Lake Street in Oak Park, near Austin Boulevard.

CSL 3286. Is this the interior of Kedzie Station?

CSL 6221. Andre Kristopans: “6221 nb on S Chicago at 79th/ Stony Island.”

CSL 1875. (Joe L. Diaz Photo) Mike Franklin adds, “Car 1875 is westbound on Harrison and appears to be turning northbound on Halsted. Camera is looking NE from Blue Island Ave.”

CSL 5746 in July 1946.

CSL 5724 on the South Deering route.

CSL 5737.

CSL 3174, signed for Through Route 8 (Halsted).

CSL 1522.

CSL 6143 at Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago, heading north.

CSL 5941. S. Terman adds, “5941 is at North/Cicero carbarn.”

CSL 1602 under the “L” (Lake Street… or 63rd?). M.E.: “I thought I read someplace that streetcars on Lake St. had to be narrower than normal because the tracks were closer together than normal because the L support beams were so close to the tracks. That, in turn, meant the auto lanes were outside the L structure. So I suspect this picture shows 63rd St. under the Jackson Park L.” On the other hand, Mike writes, “1602 is on Lake near Sangamon (the street sign is half visible at far left). That is most likely the Morgan St. station for the Lake Street elevated train in the background.”

5243 at Randolph and State. From the looks of things, this might predate the creation of the Chicago Surface Lines.

CSL 5819 at Cottage Grove and 115th.

CSL 3191 at Clark and LaSalle.

CSL 3041 at Montrose and Milwaukee (west end of the Montrose line). S. Terman adds, “Since 3041 brill is a 2 man car, its looks odd as Montrose is 1 man operation unless its a school trip.” Thanks to Steve D. for correcting this location (we had thought it was Montrose and Broadway, which is how the photo was marked, see his Comment.) The view looks northwest. He speculates that there was a delay on Elston, and a two-man car from that line was diverted onto west Montrose.

The same location today.

CSL 1415 at Laramie and Lake, near the Lake Street “L”.

CRT 4069 is, I believe northbound at Chicago Avenue, running as a Ravenswood Express sometime between 1943 and 1949, a period when the Rave was routed through the new State Street Subway. (Edward Frank, Jr. Photo) M.E.: “As your caption says, the Ravenswood ran in the State St. subway til 1949. And then it ran through to Englewood. After 1949, when the CTA implemented A and B skip-stop service, Englewood trains went instead to Howard St., and the Ravenswood got its own service using the original L structure into the Loop. As for the destination sign on the front, this style preceded A and B service. I think it’s possible this picture was taken prior to 1943. Miles Beitler: “Photo img750 puzzles me. If this was in fact a subway train, the destination sign should read “VIA SUBWAY” and the train would serve the Chicago/State subway station rather than the Chicago Avenue elevated station. Since Ravenswood express trains did use the subway until 1949, and this train obviously did not, I wonder if the photo predates the opening of the subway.”

Chicago & West Towns 1151, eastbound on Lake Street in Oak Park, a block away from the end of the line at Austin Boulevard. The building to the north is still standing.

The same location today.

This is a somewhat unusual view, taken along the B&OCT tracks, just west of Central Avenue. At left, you can see the CTA’s Central Avenue stop on the Congress line, now the Blue Line. The station closed in 1973 due to lack of ridership. The Eisenhower expressway would be to the left of the station, which was not served by buses, and was the only walkup (other than the Forest Park terminal) on this line, which is almost all in an open cut. We are looking mainly to the east and a bit to the north.

A two-car train of CRT gate cars at Halsted on the Stock Yards branch of the “L”. This picture can be dated to about March 1946 from the advertising posters. The Olsen and Johnson comedy team, of Hellzapoppin’ fame, were appearing at the Schubert Theater in Laffing Room Only.

When we see pictures of Western Avenue PCC cars, the question is usually, which terminal is this? Berwyn and 79th had very similar turnaround loops, built around the same time (and still used today by buses). Since the buildings at rear do not match those seen at Berwyn, I am going to say this is Western and 79th. M.E.: “This has to be 79th, for two reasons: (1) Photos I have seen of the Berwyn terminal have more vegetation. (2) In the foreground of this picture are bus lanes. I don’t remember any bus service at Berwyn. On the contrary, both the 49A South Western and both lines on 79th St. (route 79 east to the lake, and route 79A west to Cicero) used this terminal.”

North Shore Line streetcar 360 is signed for the Naval Station, which makes this Waukegan. Joe Stupar: “The North Shore Line streetcar 360 looks like it might be at the North end of North Av? The house looks a lot like 416 W Greenwood Av, still there.”

Not sure where this rather blurry picture of a CSL car barn is. Andre Kristopans: “The blurry carbarn shot should be Burnside, looking south on Drexel from 93rd.” M.E.: “I’ll hazard a guess this is the carbarn on 93rd at Drexel (900 east). I say this because I think there are railroad cars in the background. A block or so east of the Drexel barn, the 93rd St. car turned right (on Kenwood, I think) to reach a private right-of-way that crossed the railroad at grade level. Altogether an interesting operation.”

A North Shore Line Electroliner is off in the distance, making a stop at… where? Scott Greig: “The southbound Electroliner with the MD car at far left is looking northeast at Downey’s-Great Lakes. MD cars were commonly used to move sailors’ baggage, even after LCL service ended in 1947.” Joe Stupar: “The Electroliner looks like it’s at Great Lakes? Looks like a coach and an MD car in the pocket there.”

CSL 3258 on the 59th-61st route. Could this be the east end of the line? M.E.: “This is definitely the east end of the 59th/61st line. It is on Blackstone Ave. (1430 E.) looking north toward the Midway Plaisance (which was between 59th St. to the north and 60th St. to the south).. Across the Midway are some buildings from the University of Chicago. Notice that both trolleys are up, and the destination sign says “Central Park”, referring to Central Park Ave. (3600 W.), the line’s western terminus. (As I remember, the eastbound terminal sign read “60th – Blackstone”.) Google maps shows where 61st St. turned left toward where Blackstone would have been. In Google, Blackstone is labelled farther north.”

A North Shore Line train “at speed,” as they used to say. Not sure where this is. Joe Stupar: “The North Shore train at speed looks like it might be at 4 Mile Substation? The building looks similar, and this other photo of the south side shows a similar setup with the high tension wires coming over the building, and a simple tap with no steel structure.”

CSL 3219 is at the east end of the 43rd Street line, adjacent to an Illinois Central electric suburban service station. This was also near the end of the line of the Kenwood branch of the “L”.

A pair of CAT wooden “L” cars, shown here, survived into the mid-1960s, as shown by this view of the yard at Logan Square, where 6000s and 2000s are in evidence. This dates the picture to sometime between 1964 and 1970. Andre Kristopans: “The wood work motors at Logan Square hauled the rail grinder sleds until 1965 or so.” Scott Greig: “Wood “L” cars at Logan…there were several wood cars (particularly the 1809-1815 group) that lasted in work service as late as 1968, maybe even 1970. Given that there’s no crane or flat cars with them, they may be a rail grinder train.”

I believe this is the Chicago & West Towns car barn, which was located in North Riverside. (Many photos list it as “Berwyn,” but it’s across the street from that suburb.) The West Towns had two car barns, the other at Lake and Ridgeland in Oak Park. Although both were in the ‘burbs, the North Riverside one was often referred to as the “suburban” barn. The area around the Oak Park barn was a lot more built up than this.

1939 Chicago Surface Lines Training Program

In 2016, we were fortunate to acquire a rare 16″ transcription disc, made in 1939 for the Chicago Surface Lines. This included an audio presentation called “Keeping Pace,” about 20 minutes long, that CSL used for employee training.

We were recently able to find someone who could play such a large disc, and now this program has been digitized and can be heard for the first time in more than 80 years. We have added it as a bonus feature to our Red Arrow Lines 1967 CD, available below and through our Online Store.

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Red Arrow Lines 1967: Straffords and Bullets
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This disc features rare, long out-of-print audio recordings of two 1967 round trips on the Philadelphia & Western (aka “Red Arrow Lines”) interurban between Philadelphia and Norristown, the famous third rail High-Speed Line. One trip is by a Strafford car and the other by one of the beloved streamlined Bullets. The line, about 13 miles long and still in operation today under SEPTA, bears many similarities to another former interurban line, the Chicago Transit Authority‘s Yellow Line (aka the “Skokie Swift”). We have included two bonus features, audio of an entire ride along that five mile route, which was once part of the North Shore Line, and a 20-minute 1939 Chicago Surface Lines training program (“Keeping Pace”). This was digitized from a rare original 16″ transcription disc and now can be heard again for the first time in over 80 years.

Total time – 73:32

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Redone tile at the Monroe and Dearborn CTA Blue Line subway station, showing how an original sign was incorporated into a newer design, May 25, 2018. (David Sadowski Photo)

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More Railroad Record Club Rarities

April 22, 2019April 23, 2019David Sadowski 11 Comments

Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern car 100. This car is featured on Railroad Record Club LP #2. Don’s Rail Photos: “100 was built by McGuire-Cummings in 1914. It was built as a second motor to operate behind the 140s as a two car train. The baggage compartment was a kitchen, and the rear end was an open platform observation. The buffet section was replaced with coach seats in 1918. The car was then rebuilt with a control station and baggage compartment in 1928 and the rear platform was enclosed at that time. It was the last interurban left on the WCF&N when it became diesel freight, and it was donated to the Iowa Chapter of the NRHS in 1956. It was moved to Centerville and operated on the Southern Iowa Ry. When the SI cut back its operation and dieselized, the Iowa Chapter transferred the car to the Iowa Terminal RR in 1966. Shortly after it was repainted and put into charter service, it was destroyed in the carbarn fire early November 24, 1967. It had been the only car saved from the WCF&N roundhouse fire on October 31, 1954, when the other two cars of its class burned.”

No one person has been more responsible for preserving the historic artifacts connected with William A. Steventon‘s Railroad Record Club than our good friend Kenneth Gear. A while back, Ken acquired many of the original RRC tape recordings, some of which were never issued.

I have referred before to the RRC output being the “tip of the iceberg,” so to speak, and thanks to Ken, we are beginning to see what the rest of the RRC archive consisted of. While we had already issued some “new” RRC recordings, taken from discs found in the Steventon archive, we have something even more exciting to announce today– newly uncovered audio recordings of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee interurban, the fabled North Shore Line, unheard for perhaps as much as 60 years.

These recordings have been digitized from original RRC tapes that Ken purchased, and are now available for the first time on compact disc. More details about that will be found at the end of this post.

Because we feel it is important for Ken to get back at least some of the substantial investment he has made, in order to preserve these and other historic materials, we are paying Ken a royalty of $5 for each disc sold. Our humble offerings are already reasonably priced, and we don’t make much money from them. On top of that, the Trolley Dodger has, to date, operated at a loss for every year. Our original losses were in excess of $10k per year. This was reduced to $6k in 2017, and we recently did our taxes and are pleased to report that we cut the loss to just $1400 in 2018.

Our goal with this enterprise is historic preservation and education, to provide an archive where people can get, and exchange information about electric railways. In some ways it is the modern equivalent of what my friend Ray DeGroote calls the “intelligence network” of railfans, which has been around since the 1930s or even earlier, just updated for the Internet age.

It used to be that you had to know somebody to be part of this intelligence network, and information was passed from one person to another. Now, it is accessible to anyone and everyone who wants it, via the world wide web.

With that in mind, our goal has always been to break even, in order to make the Trolley Dodger a self-sustaining enterprise.

But we have to give credit where credit is due. Without Kenneth Gear’s personal sacrifices, it’s possible that these materials would have been lost forever, and would have ended up in a dumpster somewhere. You never would even have known they existed.

That’s why I hope you will help support Ken’s gallant efforts by purchasing a copy of this new CD offering.

Because we are not entirely mercenary, Ken is also sharing dozens of classic railfan photos which he purchased as part of the Railroad Record Club archive. Presumably, all or nearly all of these were taken by the late William A. Steventon (1921-1993) himself, as many reflect the areas he lived, worked, and traveled to in his career.

A few of these we already published, but most of these appear here for the first time.

As always, if you can help provide any additional information about these photos, we would love to hear from you.

Enjoy!

-David Sadowski

Altoona and Logan Valley car 74. Don’s Rail Photos: “74 was built by Osgood-Bradley Car Co in 1930.”

This photo was originally misidentified, but actually shows Indianapolis Railways Peter Witt car #132, apparently on a fantrip, probably circa 1950. The streetcar was a Master Unit (that was a Brill trade name), built circa 1932-33, making it one of the last such orders before the PCC era. Master Units were supposed to be a standardized car, but in actuality I believe no two orders were exactly the same.

A Chicago, Aurora & Elgin train street running in Aurora in 1931. The CA&E was relocated off-street here in 1939.

A Capital Transit PCC and bus at Catholic University in the Washington, DC area.

Denver and Rio Grande Western 476, which was featured on Railroad Record Club LP SP-1.

Denver and Rio Grande Western 481.

Des Moines and Central Iowa cars #1701 and 1704 in the scrap line, November 19, 1939.

Des Moines and Central Iowa #1705 in October 1938.

Des Moines and Central Iowa car 1710.

East Broad Top #15 on a rainy day, very likely while Railroad Record Club LP #3 was being recorded.

Evansville and Ohio Valley car #134.

Hagerstown and Frederick #19 in Frederick, MD on May 30, 1939.

The same picture cropped.

A Hagerstown and Frederick work car in Fredercik, MD on May 30, 1939.

Hagerstown and Frederick 164.

Illinois Terminal car 285. Don’s rail Photos: “285 was built by St Louis Car in 1914. It was rebuilt as a parlor car in 1024 and as a coach in December 1928. It was air conditioned in August 1938 and got new seating in December 1952. It was sold for scrap to Hyman Michaels Co. on May 16, 1956.”

An Illinois Terminal local on Caldwell Hill in East Peoria about 1936.

A fuzzy picture of Illinois Power Company loco #1551.

A builder’s photo of Illinois Terminal #207.

Illinois Terminal 1201 at Peoria. Don’s Rail Photos: “1201 was built by McGuire-Cummings in 1910 as an express motor with 20 seats at the rear. In 1919 it was rebuilt with a small baggage section at the front and the trucks were changed from Curtis to Baldwin.”

Indiana Railroad box car #550.

Indiana Railroad loco #752 waiting for loads at a mine scale.

Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed car #64. Howard Pletcher adds, “Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed car #64 is at the Fort Wayne passenger terminal.”

The Indiana Railroad passenger terminal in Fort Wayne. (Howard Pletcher Collection)

Indiana Railroad #93 at Anderson, IN on September 4, 1938.

Indiana Railroad box motor #722.

Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed car #80 on an Indianapolis local. It was built by Pullman in 1931 and scrapped in 1941.

Indiana Railroad box motor #115.

Indiana Railroad car #375. Don’s Rail Photos: “375 was built by St Louis Car Co in 1926 as Indiana Service Corp 375. It was ass1gned to IRR as 375 in 1932 and rebuilt as a RPO-combine in 1935. It was sold to Chicago South Shore & South Bend in 1941 as 503 and used as a straight baggage car. It was rebuilt in 1952 with windows removed and doors changed.”

Indiana Railroad car #446.

Indiana Railroad car #730.

Indiana Railroad loco #792.

The same picture, restored.

Indiana Railroad Vigo with rails ripped out.

Indiana Service Corp., looking forward from car at speed on Spy Run Avenue showing car on #6 line, May 22, 1939.

Indiana Service Corporation #820 at Wabash station on August 3, 1936.

Indiana Service Corp View across the Broadway bridge, showing double truck car in distance, August 18, 1940. (But what city is this?) Mike Peters writes: “he ISC city car is in Fort Wayne, a block away from the south end of the Broadway line. The bridge carries Bluffton Road and the ISC interurban to Bluffton over the Saint Marys River. A good map of the Ft. Wayne system can be found in “Fort Wayne’s Trolleys” (George Bradley). ISC did provide service in several smaller cities, but these lines did not survive the 1930’s.”

Interstate car #711, ex-Indiana Public Service Corporation 427, on September 3, 1939.

Interstate car 711 on shop siding west of Greencastle on June 3 1939.

Indiana Railroad lightweight car #94. Don’s Rail Photos: “90 thru 99 were built by Cummings in 1930 as Northern Indiana Ry 350 thru 359. In 1935, they were returned to Cummings, who rebuilt them and sold them to the IRR. They were retired in 1940.”

Indiana Railroad line car 763 at the Muncie station on May 19, 1940.

Indiana Railroad lightweight car 96.

Indiana Railroad lightweight car #90 at New Castle, IN on July 4, 1936. Note the Woolworth’s at right.

Indiana Railroad lightweight car #95 at the Indianapolis terminal.

Indiana Railroad lightweight car #99.

Indiana Railroad #787.

Lake Erie and Northern car #795.

Lake Erie and Northern car #797.

Lake Erie and Northern car #939.

A Lehigh Valley Transit Allentown Limited on the Liberty Bell Route, descending the ramp at Norristown (where LVT shared tracks with the Philadelphia & Western for access to Philadelphia, at least until 1949).

Lehigh Valley Transit lightweight high-speed car 1002, presumably in Allentown PA.

Mason City and Clear Lake car #34 (photo restored).

Mason City and Clear Lake car #34 (unrestored photo).

Mason City and Clear Lake car #106.

Mason City and Clear Lake car #14.

Mason City and Clear Lake steeple cab #52.

Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway yard.

A Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway snow plow.

A Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway trolley.

A nice right-of-way photo with no information, other than the date– March 31, 1936.

Jeff Wien: “TMER&T, route 13: Clybourn Downtown Milwaukee.”
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No information.

This is a three-car train of Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speeds in multiple-unit service on a fantrip, circa 1938-40.

No information (photo restored).

No information (unrestored photo).

Does ST F Co RR stand for Santa Fe? At any rate, this is car #54 at Farmington, MO.

Salt Lake and Utah loco #101.

Sand Springs Railway (Oklahoma) loco #1001.

Unidentified car and person. Mike Peters: “The photo of 817 and employee would also be Fort Wayne. After passenger operations ceased, this motor was retained for switching the Spy Run power plant and several nearby industries. The roster in “Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Trolleys” (CERA #122) shows the 817 as being retired in 1952.”

Unidentified steeple cab locomotive.

Union Electric Railway loco #80.

Utah Idaho Central #905 in June 1945.

Washington and Old Dominion car #44 and a Railway Express Agency truck in Rosslyn VA.

A Washington and Old Dominion locomotive.

A Washington and Old Dominion RPO (Railway Post Office) on a mail run outside Rosslyn VA.

The Washington and Old Dominion shops.

Recent Finds

The CTA DesPlaines Avenue terminal in Forest Park in July 1955. This is an unusal view, looking west from Desplaines Avenue. At left, you can just barely see some streetcar tracks, which were used by West Towns Railways trolleys no later than 1948. That could be a CTA Route 17 bus, and you can also see some Chicago, Aurora & Elgin interurban cars in the station. The CA&E cut back service to here in 1953.

CTA 1775 at Cermak and Kostner on March 21, 1954, about two months before streetcar service ended on Route 21.

CTA 7213 on Route 49 – Western on August 2, 1949. This car would later become the last Chicago streetcar to operate.

North Shore Line 254 “at freight station on “L”structure near Loop – January 27, 1962.”

The North Shore Line shops interior in Milwaukee, September 24, 1961.

Chicago Surface Lines 5258 at Lowe Avenue in the 1940s (not sure of main street, perhaps 79th?).

CTA 6180, a one-man car, picks up passengers at an “L” station in the early 1950s.

CTA 7216, a St. Louis Car Company PCC, is northbound on Route 36 – Broadway in the 1950s. Jeff Wien: “Cars laying over on 119th at Morgan.”

CTA 4362, a Pullman PCC, on Route 8 – Halsted, most likely in the late 1940s. Jeff Wien adds, “Rt. 8 car has just pulled off of Broadway onto Waveland to head south on Halsted to 79th Street loop. Photo ca 1951 when Halsted was operated with PCCs, most Pullmans.”

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Tape 4 switching at Roudout + Mundeline pic 3 Tape 3 Mundeline Run pic 2 Tape 3 Mundeline Run pic 1 Tape 2 Mundeline pic 3 Tape 2 Mundeline pic 2 Tape 2 Mundeline pic 1 Tape 1 Electroliner Tape 1 Electroliner pic 3 Tape 1 Electroliner pic 2 Notes from tape 4 Note from tape 2

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There were three subway anniversaries in 2018 in Chicago:
60 years since the West Side Subway opened (June 22, 1958)
75 years since the State Street Subway opened (October 17, 1943)
80 years since subway construction started (December 17, 1938)

To commemorate these anniversaries, we have written a new book, Building Chicago’s Subways.

While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. The City of Chicago broke ground on what would become the “Initial System of Subways” during the Great Depression and finished 20 years later. This gigantic construction project, a part of the New Deal, would overcome many obstacles while tunneling through Chicago’s soft blue clay, under congested downtown streets, and even beneath the mighty Chicago River. Chicago’s first rapid transit subway opened in 1943 after decades of wrangling over routes, financing, and logistics. It grew to encompass the State Street, Dearborn-Milwaukee, and West Side Subways, with the latter modernizing the old Garfield Park “L” into the median of Chicago’s first expressway. Take a trip underground and see how Chicago’s “I Will” spirit overcame challenges and persevered to help with the successful building of the subways that move millions. Building Chicago’s subways was national news and a matter of considerable civic pride–making it a “Second City” no more!

Bibliographic information:

Title Building Chicago’s Subways
Images of America
Author David Sadowski
Edition illustrated
Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2018
ISBN 1467129380, 9781467129381
Length 128 pages

Chapter Titles:
01. The River Tunnels
02. The Freight Tunnels
03. Make No Little Plans
04. The State Street Subway
05. The Dearborn-Milwaukee Subway
06. Displaced
07. Death of an Interurban
08. The Last Street Railway
09. Subways and Superhighways
10. Subways Since 1960

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Redone tile at the Monroe and Dearborn CTA Blue Line subway station, showing how an original sign was incorporated into a newer design, May 25, 2018. (David Sadowski Photo)

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Traction Valentines

February 12, 2019September 7, 2024David Sadowski 10 Comments

I believe this photo postcard of Chicago Surface Lines 5812 was taken at the 72nd and Cottage Grove loop. Don’s Rail Photos says, “5712 was built by Brill Car Co in 1912, #18322. It was rebuilt as one man/two man service in 1933 and retired on August 25, 1947.” This picture appears to date between 1914 and 1933.

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and here we have some tasty traction Valentines for your consideration. First, we have some recent finds of our own, followed by many generously shared from the collections of William Shapotkin. We finish this post with an important find from J. J. Sedelmaier.

-David Sadowski

Recent Finds

LVT 812 in front of the Easton car barn on a June 30, 1947 fantrip. (James Maloney, Jr. Photo)

LVT 710 at Philadelphia, PA on August 19, 1945. (James Maloney, Jr. Photo)

LVT 1000 is on an ERA fantrip, “at the east end of the Ham Street Bridge,” in Allentown on October 29, 1950. (James Maloney, Jr. Photo)

LVT 1003 is at the Allentown car barn in September, 1940. (James Maloney, Jr. Photo)

LVT 1004 in Allentown, October 1939. (James Maloney, Jr. Photo)

LT 1006 at Allentown on January 23, 1943. (James Maloney, Jr. Photo)

LVT 803, in dead storage awaiting scrapping in Allentown, on November 8, 1939. (James Maloney, Jr. Photo)

A single-car CTA Skokie Swift train leaves Howard Street in June 1977.

An artist’s rendering of the high-level us subway the CTA envisioned for Washington Street between Canal and Michigan, 1961.

Indiana Railroad #1150 is southbound at Springport station on the New Castle line on January 1, 1941 in the waning days of that storied Hoosier interurban. (Eugene Van Dusen Photo)

SF Muni cable car 524 is at Powell and Market at 1 am on September 2, 1956.

SF Muni cable car 503 at Washington and Octavia on September 1, 1956.

Cable car track work at Powell and California on October 31, 1957.

Red Arrow Lines Brilliner #7 is running on the street, presumably on the Sharon Hill branch, on November 27, 1960.

On June 3, 1962 Red Arrow car 20 is turning onto a cobblestone street on the Sharon Hill line.

At first, you might think this lineup of NSL cars in dead storage at Highwood (headed up by 158) is post-abandonment, but apparently not. The slide not only has a 1/20/63 date stamped on it (last full day of operations), the slide was processed by Kodak in January 1963.

In this April 11, 1964 view, one of the former North Shore Line Electroliners has been rechristened as a Red Arrow Liberty Liner on the Norristown High Speed Line in Philadelphia’s suburbs. I would expect that the abandoned right-of-way at left is where the Strafford branch once was.

North Shore Line electric loco 456 heads up a short freight train on January 20, 1963– the last full day of operations prior to abandonment.

CTA 7108, already signed for its northbound trip on Route 36, is near 120th and Halsted in the 1950s.

CTA 4095 is eastbound at Lake and Ashland on June 24, 1961. In the background, you can see the old Lake Transfer station, where riders could change (up until February 1951) for Logan Square and Humboldt Park trains.

A CTA two-car Lake Street “L” train heads east in this 1960 photo by Al Holtz.

April 1963.

From the Collections of William Shapotkin

CTA trolley us 9377 is at Irving Park and Neenah. This bus turnaround is no longer in use by CTA, and has now become part of a driveway for a development.

At right, 2411-2412 are on the same fantrip mentioned in the revious photo. At left, a southbound Howard-Dan Ryan train passes the Diversey station on the Ravenswood “L”. William Shapotkin took this picture on December 13, 1998.

At right, CTA cars 2411-2412 are on an NRHS (National Railway Historical Society) fantrip. At left, a southbound Howard-Dan Ryan train blasts by the Armitage station on the Ravenswood “L”. William Shapotkin took this photo on December 13, 1998.

CTA 2177 heads up an Evanston Express train at Armitage on July 10, 1989.

CTA bus 8413 is southbound on Broadway at Lawrence in October 1973, running on Route 36. (Ronald J. Sullivan Photo)

CTA 3140, working a southbound trip on CTA Route 38 – Indiana, heads southbound on Wabash Avenue, crossing Roosevelt Road. Visible above the red car at right is the one-time Union Bus Deport. The view looks north.

CTA trolley bus 9537, working Route 12 – Roosevelt Road, departs its east end terminal at Roosevelt Road east of Wabash Avenue. the view looks north.

CSL 5925 heads southbound on Wabash Avenue and crosses Roosevelt Road. The Union Bus Depot is on the northeast corner. The view looks northeast.

CTA trolley bus 9453, working a westbound trip on Route 12 – Roosevelt Road, has just crossed Wabash Avenue. (The building on the northeast corner is the one-time Union Bus Depot.) The view looks northeast on May 27, 1967, taken from the CTA Roosevelt Road station.) Jeffrey L. Wien Photo, Wien-Criss Archive)

A northbound Lake-Englewood “A” train of 2000-series cars approaches the “L” station at 40th and Indiana in September 1993. (Myron Lane Photo)

A northbound CTA train approaches the Indiana “L” station on the south side of Chicago on June 28, 1992. The occasion was a Central Electric Railfans’ Association fantrip, celebrating a century of rapid transit. (Jim Arvites Photo)

CTA 2821, a wooden Met car running northbound on the Kenwood shuttle circa 1956-57. These were the last type of cars used for that service, which ended in 1957.

We are looking east off the CTA’s Indiana Avenue “L” station in the early 1950s. At left, a Kenwood train has just departed en route to 42nd Place. At right, two 200-series cars (used as equipment on the Kenwood line) are in storage on what once had been the northbound local track of the South Side “L”.

CTA gate car 268 at the Indiana Avenue station “pocket.”

CTA 268 is a Kenwood local, at the Indiana Avenue station.

A two-car train, including #227, is being stored for Kenwood service, on what had once been the northbound local track on the South Side “L”, in the early 1950s.

CTA 385 is at the Indiana Avenue station in July 1948,signed as a Wilson Avenue local via the elevated (instead of the State Street subway, which opened in 1943). The following year, the CTA introduced A/B “skip stop” service to North-South and the Kenwood and Stockyards branches became shuttles.

CTA car #273, working the Kenwood “L” shuttle, is seen at the 40th and Indiana Avenue station. The view looks northeast.

Once the Kenwood and Stockyards ranch lines became full-time shuttle operations, the CTA station at 40th and Indiana Avenue was reconfigured. Here is a Kenwood car in the “pocket.”

Looking west from the west end of the Indiana Avenue “L” station, 4000-series “L” cars are laying over on the Stockyards “L”. 4000s were used on this branch during the 1952 and 1956 political conventions held at the International Amphitheater. (Joseph N. Canfield Photo)

The Indiana Avenue station on the South Side “L” circa 1956. A northbound Englewood-Howard train departs the station, while a Stockyards shuttle train awaits departure time. The view looks east. (Joseph N. Canfield Photo)

Looking east (timetable south) into 63rd and Cottage Grove station on the Jackson Park “L” on May 12, 1996. (William Shapotkin Photo)

A Lake-Jackson Park train approaching 63rd and Cottage Grove on May 12, 1996. The train has crossed over to the northbound track and is arriving at the station. (William Shapotkin Photo)

A southbound Jackson Park train approaches 63rd and Cottage Grove on May 12, 1996. The train is about to cross over and arrive at the station. The view looks west (timetable north) from the north platform. (William Shapotkin Photo)

Chicago, IL. Looking westbound on O’Neil Street (now 23rd Place) from Halsted Street. Well into the 1900s, this was an important terminal/transfer point. Note cable slots– the West Chicago Street Railroad Company’s Halsted-Van Buren cable line terminated in the carbarn at left. This was also the south terminal of Chicago Union Traction’s Halsted line. CUT car #4171 (Pullman 1898) prepares for its northward journey. (Fred J. Borchert Photo)

Chicago, IL. Looking westbound on 23rd (O’Neil) Street from Halsted Street, once a busy street– once a busy streetcar/cable car terminal (with a carbarn). The rails (along with a crossover) are still intact and visible in this July 30, 2004 photo by William Shapotkin.

(William Shapotkin Photo)

Bus stop sign at the northwest corner of 23rd (O’Neil) Street and Halsted Street. The view looks northeast on July 30, 2004. (William Shapotkin Photo)

Chicago, IL. Looking eastbound on 3rd (O’Neil) Street towards Halsted Street, once a busy streetcar/cable car terminal. Both sets of rails (which head onto northbound Halsted) are still visible (as of July 30, 2004) lo these many years since the discontinuance of streetcar service. (William Shapotkin Photo)

Indiana Avenue station on the South Side “L”. Left– a northbound Kenwood train arrives, while at right, a westbound Howard train also arrives. The view looks east off the overhead transfer ridge in 1950. (Joseph N. Canfield Photo)

Another North Shore Line Poster

Following up on our previous post Anniversaries (January 24, 2019), here is an interesting find, courtesy of our friend J. J. Sedelmaier.

Looking north on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue at Ohio Street circa mid-late 1920s. BTW – the billboard on the right was originally produced in 1925 as a South Shore Line one-sheet poster. (J. J. Sedelmaier Collection)

The Trolley Dodger On the Air

We appeared on WGN radio in Chicago last November, discussing our book Building Chicago’s Subways on the Dave Plier Show. You can hear our 19-minute conversation here.

Order Our New Book Building Chicago’s Subways

To commemorate these anniversaries, we have written a new book, Building Chicago’s Subways.

While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. The City of Chicago broke ground on what would become the “Initial System of Subways” during the Great Depression and finished 20 years later. This gigantic construction project, a part of the New Deal, would overcome many obstacles while tunneling through Chicago’s soft blue clay, under congested downtown streets, and even beneath the mighty Chicago River. Chicago’s first rapid transit subway opened in 1943 after decades of wrangling over routes, financing, and logistics. It grew to encompass the State Street, Dearborn-Milwaukee, and West Side Subways, with the latter modernizing the old Garfield Park “L” into the median of Chicago’s first expressway. Take a trip underground and see how Chicago’s “I Will” spirit overcame challenges and persevered to help with the successful building of the subways that move millions. Building Chicago’s subways was national news and a matter of considerable civic pride–making it a “Second City” no more!

Bibliographic information:

Building Chicago’s Subways is in stock and now available for immediate shipment. Order your copy today! All copies purchased through The Trolley Dodger will be signed by the author.

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Redone tile at the Monroe and Dearborn CTA Blue Line subway station, showing how an original sign was incorporated into a newer design, May 25, 2018. (David Sadowski Photo)

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Our 225th Post

January 14, 2019December 11, 2025David Sadowski 16 Comments

A Ravenswood “L” train at State and Lake in April 1964. Trains ran counter-clockwise around the Loop in one direction until the opening of the Dan Ryan line in 1969. Fritzel’s restaurant is at left. At right, you can just make out one of those “praying mantis” street lights, installed in 1959. Steve Felsenthal adds, “Ravenswood trains switched to the inner track after stopping on the outer track at Randolph & Wells except during weekdays rush hours during the CTA era from sometime in the early to mid 50s until 1969 when the direction of the inner loop track was reversed.”

Happy New Year! We begin 2019 with classic traction photos for our 225th post. William Shapotkin has generously shared more with us, and we have some recent finds of our own to round things out.

It costs real money to bring you these fine images, and soon the bill will come due for maintaining this site. It’s the time of year for our annual fundraiser, and our goal is to raise $436, to keep the Trolley Dodger blog around for another year. Can you help us?

We thank you in advance for your generosity in helping to keep this site going and free of advertising. If you wish to contribute, there are links at the end of this post.

We finished 2018 with 122,358 page views from 38,469 visitors. Page views increased by nearly 3% from the year before, making this our second-best year to date. We had about 10% more visitors than the year before, and in that category, it was our best year yet.

January 21 marks our fourth anniversary, and we will have another new post for you then.

During 2018, we made 22 posts in all. While this was less than in previous years, several of these posts had more than 100 images apiece (as does this one). With 225 posts, we have achieved our initial goal of creating an online archive and resource for people who are interested in vintage transit images. Our current goal is to keep the quality high while avoiding repeating ourselves.

We also published Building Chicago’s Subways, our second book in two years. Information on that book can be found at the end of this post.

Enjoy!

-David Sadowski

From the William Shapotkin Collection

Classic South Shore Line Photos

Here are 49 great South Shore Line images, all from the William Shapotkin Collection. We are very grateful to Mr. Shapotkin for his generosity in sharing these photos with our readers and the railfan community.

#8 heads up train #511 at Miller on May 30, 1988. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

#44 at Dune Park, headquarters of the Northern Indiana Commuter Transit District that funded the electric operation and the new cars. This was a charter train. (Walter Veilbaum Photo)

#3 at Michigan City in 1938. (C. V. Hess Photo)

#4 at Gary on June 16, 1946. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

#6 at Michigan City in 1938. (C. V. Hess Photo)

#12 at Michigan City in 1939. (C. V. Hess Photo)

#22 in East Chicago, Indiana in 1953. (Richard Brown Photo)

#26 in Gary on October 29, 1949. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

#30 at South Bend in August 1938. (C. V. Hess Photo)

#30 at Tremont on May 17, 1941. (Charles Savage Photo)

#32 at South Bend on September 15, 1948. (Paul Stringham Photo)

#34 at Michigan City in September 1953. That’s the note that came with the photo… on the other hand, Spence Ziegler says, “Looks more like CSS&SB Car #34 is in the South Bend coach yard.” (Richard Brown Photo)

#100 at Chicago on February 8, 1944. The only patriotic car of CSS&SB. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo) (Editor’s note: there is a different picture of car 100 in this paint scheme in my book Chicago Trolleys.)

#100 at South Bend, apparently in the 1940s. (Charles Savage Photo)

Another photo of #100 at South Bend, but not taken at the same time. Note how the windows have been changed, with the installation of air conditioning. This photo appears to date to the early 1950s. (Charles Savage Photo)

#100 at Wagner Siding, east of Gary, on May 30, 1940. (Eugene Van Dusen Photo)

#103 on September 20, 1942. (Paul Stringham Photo)

#106A at Chicago on August 22, 1968. (Will Whittaker Photo)

#102 at South Bend on July 8, 1947. At right, the auto appears to be a 1947 Studebaker, known as the “which way is it going” model. (Charles Savage Photo)

#201 at Michigan City in September 1953. (Richard Brown Photo)

Trailer #203 at South Bend in October 1938. (C. V. Hess Photo)

Dining car #301 in 1939. (Photo by A. Q.)

Parlor car #352 at Lydick, Indiana on September 20, 1942. It appears to have been rebuilt later and gone to the Canada Gulf & Terminal Railway. See their car 504 for comparison. (Paul Stringham Photo)

#354 was built by Pullman in 1927 as a parlor car trailer, and rebuilt as a passenger car trailer in 1939.

Loco #802 at Fremont, Indiana in June 1956. (Will Whittaker Photo)

Loco #701 at Michigan City on August 22, 1968. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

Loco 702, lettered for South Shore RR.

Loco #900. (R. Biermann Photo)

Loco #903 (ex-IC), and #503 (ex-Indiana Railroad #375.

Loco #1005 at Michigan City in April 1940.

Locos #1009 and 1004 at Michigan City in June 1939. (Birney Miller Photo)

Loco #1013 at Michigan City. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

Loco #1014 at Michigan City. (C. V. Hess Photo)

Line car #1100. (Gus Wilson Photo)

Line car #1100 at Chicago on June 28, 1986 (for a fantrip, which I also attended). (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

#1100 in Chicago on June 28, 1986. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

Don’s Rail Photos says, “73 was built by Niles in 1908. In 1927 it was rebuilt into work motor 1126. In 1941 it was sold and converted to a house. In 1994 it was purchased for restoration from a buyer who had picked it up the month before for back taxes. He really did not want the car, just the land. Bob Harris began restoration in 2005. There were delays when Bob had a heart attack. There is a recent report on June 17, 2017.”

#1100 at Hudson Lake on June 28, 1986. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

#1100 at Dune Park on June 28, 1986. (Gordon E. Lloyd Photo)

Loco #1014A at New Carlisle, Indiana on August 7, 1938, during an Illinois Central excursion. (Eugene Van Dusen Photo)

Line car #1101, formerly a passenger car, at Michigan City in April 1940. (Eugene Van Dusen Photo)

#1126 in August 1938. (Photo by R. S.)

CSS&SB combo, used by railfans at South Bend on March 22, 1938.

An 8-car train at Lake Park in Fall 1940.

RTA loco #126 heads a leased 10-car train, which supplemented electric service for a time due to a car shortage. It made one round-trip a day out of Michigan City.

Loco #2000 at Michigan City in May 1988. (Walter H. Vielbaum Photo)

#2004 and caboose #003 at Michigan City in May 1988. (Walter H. Veilbaum Photo)

Misc. Photos From the Shapotkin Collection

On July 25, 1943 several railfans posed on the northbound platform of the as-yet unopened State Street Subway station at North and Clybourn. From left to right, we have J. Goehst, O. Scheer, George Krambles, N. Strodte, John R. Williams, J. E. Merriken Jr., R. Burns, J. Hughes, and R. E. Geis. (William Shapotkin Collection)

A train station at an unidentified location in February 1970. (William Shapotkin Collection)

This is car #202 of the Chippewa Valley Electric in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. (William Shapotkin Collection)

Grand River Railway (Canada) baggage car 622. (William Shapotkin Collection)

Yakima (Washington) trolley #1776 in 1976. (William Shapotkin Collection)

Two CTA 4000-series “L” cars in Sylvania, Ohio in August 1976. (William Shapotkin Collection)

Recent Finds

We have a picture of South Shore Line car 100 of our own. This one was taken on October 15, 1967 at the shops in Michigan City.

This picture shows CTA trolleybus 234 (prior to the renumbering, where a “9” was added before all TB #s) running on the 51st-55th line. Perhaps the machine at left is removing streetcar track. Presumably this is the early 1950s. (William Hoffman Photo, Wien-Criss Archive)

CTA trolleybus 9672 and red Pullman 685 are near the Montgomery Wards complex at Chicago and Larrabee. This would be a Halsted streetcar, running on diversion trackage via Division to Crosby and Larrabee, then Chicago to Halsted, when work was being done on the Halsted Street bridge over the Chicago River. That dates the picture to 1953– after Marmon trolleybuses were delivered, but before streetcars stopped running on Halsted in 1954. (William Hoffman Photo, Wien-Criss Archive)

Chicago’s Initial System of Subways originally had parcel lockers for public use. This picture helps explain why they were eliminated. In this April 17, 1962 photo, bomb squad detectives are carefully removing some hand grenades that were found in just such a locker at State and Randolph, along with machine gun ammunition.

Jim Huffman: Pix #564 & 565 (below) are SB Cottages returning from Grand and State on Wabash. The #38 Indiana north terminal was Navy Pier via Wabash and Grand, when it ended as a route, the #4 Cottage took its place north to Grand on State & south on Wabash, for awhile.

CTA 4056 is running on Route 4 – Cottage Grove in 1953. This is one of the postwar PCCs that was converted to one-man operation.

CTA 7013 running on Route 4 – Cottage Grove in 1953.

A colorized postcard view of a two-car Lake Street train crossing the Chicago River in the early 1900s. The postcard itself was mailed in 1907.

This transit worker is wearing a Chicago Union Traction cap, and a Chicago Railways jacket. This may help date the photo, as Chicago Railways acquired Chicago Union Traction in 1908.

CSL 7003 on Madison.

CSL 4018 in experimental colors, at Kedzie Station circa 1945-46. It’s signed for the Madison-Fifth branch line. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CTA 4012 and 4090 at Kedzie Station. Since neither PCC has a logo, this is probably early in the CTA era that started on October 1, 1947. Both cars would have been running on Route 20 – Madison. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CTA prewar PCC 4047 is running on the 10-cent Madison Shuttle.

CSL 7053, 4145, and follower, at the Vincennes and 80th turning loop.

CSL 3300 on Montrose. Note the old Divco milk truck at left. Jim Hufman adds that we are “looking west on Montrose from Ashland, the building on the right is on the NW corner.” (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CTA prewar PCC 4007 at 63rd Place and Narragansett, west end of Route 63, on September 11, 1948.

CSL 2730 and 2728, among others, at an unknown location. Jim Huffman: “Seems to be a Riverview-Larrabee car, could be Wrightwood car barn.” (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 4080, a Pullman PCC newly delivered at South Shops.

CSL 3210 on Montrose at Milwaukee, west end of the line. Streetcars were replaced by buses on July 29, 1946. Trolley buses ran west o here. The entire line was converted to trolley bus on April 19, 1948, and they continued in used until January 13, 1973. Jim Huffman adds, “car #3310 is behind the car waiting to go east. This was always a problem with PM pull-out trippers at the end of line crossovers. The regular cars would have a longer layover/recovery time than the pull-outs would have. Often the tripper would arrive after their follower, hence the follower at the extreme end with its leader squeezed in so as to leave first. If two followers were there first, one would have to take the crossover & back up on the adjacent track. This I learned from observation when I was younger & also from CSL family members. Buses do not have this problem, they just go around.” (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 3298 on Montrose. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 5702 on Archer. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 5731 on Route 5, South Chicago Avenue. Note two fans on the railroad embankment, taking pictures. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CTA 4036 is turning westbound on 63rd Place at Central. There was a section of nearly a mile of private right-of-way west of here. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 3287 on Montrose near Kedzie. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 3307 on Montrose. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 2616, signed for 115th and Halsted. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 2733, signed for Downtown. Jim Huffman: “Riverview-Larrabee.” (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 5073, signed for Archer and Western. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 2754 on a wintry day, signed or Roscoe and Western. Andre Kristopans writes, “I strongly suspect (2754 is) northbound on Larrabee at Clybourn on Route 40 Riverview-Larrabee.” (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 3298 on Montrose. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

CSL 2816, signed or Cottage Grove and 38th.

CTA 4330, a Pullman PCC, heads south on Halsted, crossing a brand-new bridge over the Congress Expressway, then under construction, in 1950. In the background is the Met “L” main line, which remained in use at this location until June 1958. The PCC is signed for Route 42, Halsted-Downtown. M. E. adds, “The streetcar’s destination sign reads route 42, but route 42 did not run when and where the picture was taken (Halsted at Congress). At that spot, only route 8 ran. The correct sign would have said 8 Halsted-79.” Jim Huffman adds, “The motorman saw the 79th thru the little view window & stopped there.”

CTA 282 and 285 at 63rd and Kedzie in August 1953.

The same location today, looking north on Kedzie at 63rd Street.

CTA 6101-6102 on the Paulina Connector, crossing the Congress rapid transit line, on April 21, 1991. This trackage is now used by the CTA Pink Line. Ater being stored at the Fox River Trolley Museum for many years, these cars are now back on CTA property as part of their historical collection and it is hoped they will someday run again. (Albert J. Reinschmidt Photo)

CTA red Pullman 225 and PCC 4406 on an October 21, 1956 fantrip. M. E. adds, “This picture is at 16th and Clark, facing north. Streetcars had their own private right-of-way west of Clark going under the two railroad viaducts located here.”

CA&E #321 is at the rear of an outbound train at Marshfield Junction.

A train of CA&E woods near Wells Street Terminal in downtown Chicago.

CTA 2067-2068 head up a westbound Lake Street train in June 1965.

CTA 2175-2176, a northbound Lake-Dan Ryan “B” train, near Adams and Wabash station on August 2, 1974. (Douglas N. Grotjahn Photo)

Chicago, Aurora & Elgin wood car #30. Don’s Rail Photos notes, “These 15 motor cars and 5 trailers were built by Stephenson Car Co. in 1903 and were part of the original stock. 30 was built by Stephenson in 1903. It was retired in 1959.”

North Shore Line city streetcar #354, which once ran on the streets of Milwaukee and Waukegan, at the Illinois Electric Railway Museum in North Chicago, September 15, 1957.

CTA Pullman PCC 4111 heads west on Monroe Street in 1950, running on Route 20 – Madison.

A two-car train of CTA 6000s heads east on Garfield Park temporary trackage at Paulina on April 3, 1954. The photographer was standing on the platform of the Met “L” station at Marshfield Junction, then still in use or Douglas Park trains.

Red Arrow Brilliner #9 at the end of the Ardmore line in May 1965.

Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. (aka Red Arrow) #17, a double-ended interurban car built by St. Louis Car Co. in 1949, is at the west end of the long West Chester line, which was bussed in 1954 to facilitate the widening of West Chester Pike.

Philadelphia Transportation Co. PCC #2031 is on a section of private right-of-way at the end of Route 6 in the early 1950s. That looks like aa 1953 Cadillac at right. This section of route was eventually cut back due to highway construction. (Walter Broschart Photo)

Public Service #2695 is inbound on the Hudson line on the old Hoboken elevated near the Summit turnoff at Palisade Avenue.

A Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit articulated “Bluebird” set of cars, on its inaugural run in 1939.

A set of articulated Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit “Bluebird” cars on Fulton Street at Tompkins Avenue.

We recently purchased some original plans from the Initial System of Subways, which detail where various utilities were intended to be relocated at the subway station at Grand and State. This just goes to show the incredible level of detail required for a project of this sort. Interestingly, these plans were in London, England and have now been repatriated back to Chicago. They are dated October 1939, and this document was voided out in December of that same year (and no doubt replaced with an updated version, based on the actual locations of utilities).

Recent Correspondence

Ashley Koda writes:

I came across your website while researching the history of my apartment building. I have the attached photo reflecting a Chicago Surface Line Car No. 3098 on the corner of Erie & Bishop. I understand that this line was in operation between 1913-1947. I found a photo on your website of a 3098 car at Erie & Racine which looks identical to the one attached, so I was hoping you could please help me narrow the time frame of this photo or perhaps point me to some resources that may assist.

Thanks for writing.

Your note doesn’t mention which route the streetcar is on, and neither does the caption on the picture you found on my blog. However, it is probably this one, although the dates don’t quite match up with 1913-1947 (information from www.chicagorailfan.com):

23 Morgan-Racine
Horse car route introduced by Chicago Passenger Railway
Streetcar route introduced by West Chicago Street Railroad/Chicago Railways (north of 21st St.)
Streetcar route introduced by Southern Street Railway (21st St. to Archer)
Streetcar route introduced by Chicago City Railway (south of Archer)

1886 – horse car service introduced primarily on Erie between downtown and Ashland
1886 – horse car service introduced on Racine between downtown and 21st St.
1896 – service on Erie and Racine converted to electric streetcar
1898 – Racine streetcar extended south via Throop and Morgan to Union Stockyards
12/1/12 – Through Route streetcar introduced, combining Erie and Racine routes
7/25/48 – streetcar route converted to buses
9/13/81 – discontinued

Through Route operated between Union Stockyards and near northwest side. Segment between 21st St. and Archer actually introduced by Chicago General Railway Co., acquired by Southern Street Railway Co. in 1905.

Midday service discontinued 9/10/61

Car House: Noble (until 8/31/47)
Blue Island (8/31/47-7/25/48)
Bus Garage: Blue Island (7/25/48-1/16/55)
Archer (1/16/55-9/13/81)

As for the streetcar itself, Don’s Rail Photos gives the following information:

3098 was built by CSL in 1922. It was scrapped in 1948.

More pictures of streetcars were taken by fans in the 1940s than in the 1930s, perhaps in part because it was widely known that the older ones would soon be disappearing. So while there may not be much in the picture that can help date it, chances are it is from the period 1940-1948 than anything earlier than that, just due to statistics.

I hope this helps.

-David Sadowski

PS- Here is the other picture of 3098 that we previously ran.

Andre Kristopans: “3098 SB turning off Erie into Racine.” (Railway Negative Exchange Photo)

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Railroad Record Club Treasure Hunt, Part 2

September 24, 2018June 5, 2023David Sadowski 9 Comments

1 Selection of Steventon tapes mostly unreleased

Following up on our previous posts William A. Steventon’s Railroad Record Club (September 24, 2018), and Railroad Record Club Treasure Hunt (July 30, 2017) guest author Kenneth Gear continues with a detailed rundown on his latest discoveries.

I have been interested in historic preservation for a long time, and it’s not every day that anyone comes across original material such as this. Suddenly, out of nowhere it seems, previously unknown, unissued audio recordings have emerged for some long-vanished steam and electric railroads, along with 16mm motion picture film, and various artifacts related to the Railroad Record Club’s 42 issued LPs, in their various forms. It seems like a miracle that somehow, it all survived to be rescued from oblivion.

Getting this done involved a tremendous financial sacrifice on Ken’s part, as he is of modest means. I hope that he will be able to recoup at least some of his substantial investment in the future. I am sure he will appreciate any contributions you may be able to offer him, towards the cost of transferring some of these reel-to-reel tapes and 16mm movie films to digital.

You can find Part 1 here: Railroad Record Club Treasure Hunt (July 30, 2017)

-David Sadowski

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Railroad Record Club Treasure Hunt, Part 2

It’s been over a year since I acquired a large portion of the William Steventon estate. The Railroad Record Club items that I purchased last year have enabled David and I to piece together a fairly complete history of the RRC and to more fully appreciate the time and effort Mr. Steventon put into producing these records. The homemade 78rpm records alone proved to be an invaluable resource. Not only did they provide us with some wonderful recordings, most of which hadn’t been heard in over fifty years, they revealed the pre-history of the club and offered a glimpse into the infancy of railroad field recording.

We were able to hear the very first railroad recording Steventon made– B&O trains at Riverdale, Maryland in 1953. We also finally completed our quest to get a copy of every single released RRC record digitized and put on CDs. We are now only in need of two samplers, the 5th and 6th years. More interesting information was garnered from examining original record jacket artwork and paste up boards, as well as the metal print blocks. We were also able to compile a list of records re-issued on 12″ stock and find out what was necessary for it to happen and the cost of doing it.

Photographs from his personal collection were scanned and published in the Trolley Dodger for all to enjoy. I think the effort that went into keeping all this material from ending up in a dumpster was well worth the time and expense and I’m happy to have been involved.

In spite of this, I knew the job was only half finished. There was much more that needed to be saved and time was running out. Those tapes I wrote about under the heading “what I left behind” in the first treasure hunt story needed to be preserved. There were still a big box of photos, reams of correspondence, the metal master discs for the 12″ reissues and lots and lots of sealed records.

The estate dealer was quite adamant that this stuff had to go…and quickly! I purchased all that I could, but I certainly could not afford to buy anything else and asked for some time to raise the money. As I tried to come up with the extra cash needed, months went by and the emails ceased. For a while it seemed that all this great material would be lost. Still, I squirreled away what money I could when I could and slowly, much too slowly, I approached his asking price. With the funds in hand, I emailed the estate dealer putting in the subject line that I HAD the money for the remaining Steventon estate items. Even as I composed that email I couldn’t be sure that the entire lot wasn’t already in some land fill rotting away. He answered me the next day, but it seemed a lot longer then that to me. His first two sentences were a relief:

Ken, good to hear from you. Yes, it is all as we left it a year ago.

There was one complication that needed to be addressed. I could not make the trip up to him in Wisconsin this year as I had done before. All the items would have to be shipped to me in New Jersey.

The estate dealer was agreeable to packing up the items and doing the weighing and making the transportation arrangements, but again there was a complication. This was his busy season and he would be working extensively out of town. He would not be able to devote much time to this effort for the next few weeks. A little progress was made here and there through the rest of June and I purchased boxes and packing material in July. I was a little apprehensive about shipping old open reel tapes and vinyl records during the hottest part of the summer anyway, so I just had to be patient. In early August progress was made and on the 13th I received the long-awaited email:

The last box is packed. You’ll have a pallet coming that’s right around 400 pounds, perhaps a touch over. Nine boxes to be delivered to the YRC terminal.

Several more delays would still be encountered, not the lest of which was the local hardware store’s forklift needing repairs. The hardware store, for a $20 fee, would be used to lift the pallet onto the truck. At last, in early September, with all hurdles cleared, a newly-repaired forklift placed the shipment on to the truck. Finally, the second half of the Steventon estate’s Railroad Record Club items were on their way to me.

A few days later I heading to the local YRC terminal to receive the long-awaited shipment. After some paperwork in the office, I backed a borrowed ¾-ton pick-up truck to the indicated bay. Soon a forklift lowered the last of the Railroad Record Club items from the Steventon estate into the truck bed. I now had a night of treasure hunting to look forward to!

I had sort of “cherry picked” the first half of the estate, so I knew that a great unexpected find was rather doubtful, but I did come across a few surprises.

THE TAPES

2 Tapes appear to be in good condition

3 Tape with hand written track listing

4 More unreleased Steventon audio

5 Lots of interesting material on these tapes

6 Still more intersting tapes

7 Unreleased audio this is why I bought the whole lot

8 Steventon tapes

9 More Stevnton tapes

10 Even more tapes

11 Small reels -the master tapes for the 78rpm records

12 Another view of the Small reels -the master tapes for the 78rpm records

13 A box full of the Small reels -the master tapes for the 78rpm records

14 Close up of the 78rpm record master tapes

15 Another Close up of the 78rpm record master tapes

16 78rpm master tapes showing condition of tapes-not too bad

17 close up of 78rpm master tape showing condition

18 BC Electric and Montreal & South Counties tapes with Steventon letter

19 Montreal & South Counties tape with Steventon letter

20 BC Electric tape with Steventon letter

21 Close up of the BC Electric and Montreal & South Counties tapes

22 Railroad Record Club Master tapes

23 Master tape for record 26

24 A stack of 22 Railroad Record Club Master tapes

25 master tape Railroad Record Club number 16

26 master tape Railroad Record Club number 15

27 master tape Railroad Record Club with memo

28 master tape Railroad Record Club number 17

29 master tape Railroad Record Club number 18

30 Note on box containing master tape Railroad Record Club number 18

31 Two master tapes for record number 3

32 Two master tapes for record number 3 showing condition

33 master tape Railroad Record Club number 7

34 master tapes Railroad Record Club number 10

35 master tape Railroad Record Club number 23 with memo

36 master tape Railroad Record Club number 17

The reel to reel tapes that I had left behind last year were the real reason I went to all this trouble and expense to acquire the rest of the estate. I’m sure I did not get any of the tapes that were actually in Steventon’s recorder when he was trackside, but they may no longer exist. Perhaps he transferred these “field tapes” to newer tape stock, in an effort to preserve them and some of these duplicates are what I received. There is at least one recording I know he made that is not among my tapes. In the liner notes of Record Number 20, Steventon writes that the cab ride onboard NYC # 1441 with his father at the throttle was edited down from over two hours of tape. I would have been very happy to find 4 or 5 reels of tape marked “cab ride with Dad” but it was not to be. What I did find, however, is some very good and interesting stuff, most of which has never been released on a Railroad Record Club LP.

One tape that was a bit of a surprise was a 4″ reel of tape marked NYS&W. Of all the railroads in the New York area, why the Susquehanna? If he recorded this tape while in New York to ride and record the Queensboro Bridge trolley, which had to be prior to April 1957 when that line shut down, then why not record PRR K-4s on the New York & Long Branch which lasted until October of that year? Or all those electric locomotives on the NYC and NYNH&H? Perhaps he did record some or all these railroads and I just don’t have the tapes. Anything is possible, but I have found no evidence that he ever did. I’ll just have to wait until I have the NYS&W tape put on CD to find out just what the attraction may have been.

Other interesting finds include three 5″ reels of a fan trip operated by the Northern Pacific Railroad on June 20, 1957. 4-8-4 # 2686 pulled the train from St. Paul, MN to Staples. One tape is labeled “NP 2686-LV MPLS,” the second NP 2686 coal dock stop,” and the last, “NP 2686 LV Staples.” There was also a negative of the NP 2686 at Staples found among the photographs. Other steam and/or diesel tapes are labeled “CPR,” “NKP Ft. Wayne,” “N&W,” and “Soo Line.”

The traction fans among us will be happy to know there is plenty for them. The CNS&M has several tapes devoted to it. One tape is marked “CNS&M switching at Rondout and Mundelein”. There is a cut on Record 26 of locomotive # 459 switching at Rondout, but not at Mundelein. Another North Shore tape is marked “Mundelein Run” and another simply ” Mundelein”. One more CNS&M tape has “Electroliner” written on the box.

There is a tape marked “ITS 202”, apparently Steventon preferred Illinois Traction System to Illinois Terminal. On Record 25 Steventon wrote in the liner notes, “We had just arrived (at Harristown, IL) on interurban No. 202 where we had made an “on train” recording east from Springfield. We alighted and watched the 202 fade into the distance. This was the last sight and sound we had of the Illinois Terminal as an interurban. The “on train” recording of 202 and a streamliner is scheduled for release at a later date.” It never was. I don’t know about the streamliner recording, I may or may not have it, but I will consider it a privilege to be involved with releasing the 202 recording for him.

There are also tapes of the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City (CRANDIC), Charles City Western, Toledo & Eastern, and Capital Transit. Canadian traction fans are not overlooked either. There is a 5″ reel of the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway. There are also two 5″ reels, one each, of the BC Electric and the Montreal & Southern Counties. These two tapes were recorded by Eugene Van Dusen, and the accompanying letter to Steventon, plus a copy of it sent to Elwin Purington, were found among some RRC papers I have. Another reel of tape not recorded by Steventon is “Cincinnati Street Railway Car 187 12/13/51.” Finding this was a nice surprise. I don’t know who did record it, but Steventon did not start making recordings until 1953.

Here is the entire list of the tape reels, excluding 21/2″ reels which I’ll list separately, and the master tapes for the LPs,

REEL TO REEL TAPES

INFORMATION MARKED ON TAPE BOXES

4″ reels:

1. NYS&W

5″ reels:

1. CPR-J. Van Brocklin
2. Soo Line
3. T&E NKP Diesel-NKP Ft. Wayne
4. N&W
5. N&W from Salem
6. N&W Billy + Larry on end
7. NP 2686 Lv Mpls-6/20/57
8. NP 2686 coal dock stop
9. NP 2686 Lv Staples
10. B. C. Electric
11. Montreal & Southern Counties
12. Potomac Edison #5
13. Potomac Edison H&F last run radio program
14. CNS&M -switching at Rondout and Mundelein
15. Mundelein Run
16. Capital Transit co 1151
17. ITS car 202
18. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City 5/31/53
19. CCW 5/18/54*
20. CCW CC to Colwell
21. Toledo & Eastern
22. PRR GG-1s

7″ reels:

1. Railroading in Spooner Wisconsin
2. CNS&M Electroliner
3. N. St. C & Toronto
4. Johnstown Traction and Altoona & Logan Valley
5. Cincinnati Street Railway car 187 12/13/51

The next bunch of tapes are smaller reels. These 21/2″ reels are in their original manufacture’s boxes and are marked only with a Railroad name and a catalog number. The catalog numbers correspond with the catalog numbers on the 10″ 78rpm acetate records that I acquired with the first half of the estate. As producing these records was a very time-consuming task, Steventon saved time by making a master tape for each record. The master tape would contain his spoken introductions followed by the train sounds. I bought over sixty of these small master tapes, and a large number have never been put on the regular Railroad Record Club releases. They contain sounds of railroads I was completely unaware Steventon ever recorded, such as L&N, Southern, and Virginian. This collection also contains the Queensboro Bridge trolley, the IND subway, and the Third Avenue EL recordings Steventon made in New York City.

21/2″ reels:

1. Potomac Edison, 4 reels
2. Shenandoah Central, 2 reels
3. Capital Transit, 3 reels
4. Altoona & Logan Valley, 2 reels
5. B&O, 9 reels
6. Shaker Heights RT, 3 reels
7. PRR, 5 reels
8. NKP, 1 reel
9. St. Louis PS, 1 reel
10. Illinois Terminal, 2 reels
11. ICRR 3 reels
12. N&W, 1 reel
13. WM Rwy, 1 reel
14. Baltimore Transit, 2 reels
15. Senate Subway, 1 reel
16. Scranton Transit, 1 reel
17. Rochester Subway, 1 reel
18. CB&Q, 2 reels
19. Niagara, St. C & T, 2 reels
20. Virginian, 2 reels
21. Southern, 2 reels
22. Queensboro Bridge, 2 reels
23. Wabash, 1 reel
24. Third Ave. EL, 2 reels
25. Soo Line, 5 reels
26. L&N, 2 reels
27. St. Elizabeth Hospital, 1 reel (used steam switcher to move coal hoppers)
28. Omaha Road, 1 reel
29. NYC IND Subway, 1 reel
30. Unidentified, 4 reels

This is not a complete set of all the master tapes made for the 78rpm records to be sure, but it’s most of them. I consider it a small miracle that any survive at all! I am not an audio expert, but in my opinion, uninformed as it may be, these tapes appear to be in reasonably good condition. I would think that the tapes would be able to withstand a few more plays, enough to be digitized at least. Neither David nor I have the equipment to attempt this and I think it would be ill advised of us to try anyway. The tapes are old and were not stored in archival conditions. I’m sure the prudent course of action is to entrust any work on them to a professional.

The last batch of tapes are the master tapes made for the released Railroad Record Club LPs. There are different size reels, some tapes are only of one side of the LP while others have both sides on the same reel. Some are in good condition and some are not. Some I have multiple copies of and a few of the LPs I have no tapes for, Rather then make a complete list of every reel I will simply list the few LPs I have NO master tapes for.

No master tapes:

RRC 21
RRC 24
RRC 29
RRC 31
RRC SP-2
RRC SP-4
RRC SP-6

Most of these reels are 7″ with only a few smaller or larger. The most interesting master tapes are the reels for RRC 3 EBT/D&RGW. There are two 7″ reels that most likely have the original release version of the record, the one with William Steventon’s narration. There are also two 5″ reels, one marked “sounds only” and the other labeled “Narrative.” Since Steventon removed his voice from the 12″reissue of the record, the “Narrative” tape must contain just the voice of Elwin Purington doing the new narration.

I’m not sure just what to do with these master tapes. Some are in rough shape and all these sounds are on the released Railroad Record Club LPs. It certainly would be a considerable expense to digitize them all and no new sounds would be gained. For now, I’ll store them in the best possible conditions that I can provide and perhaps one day a clear path of action will present itself.

MOVIE FILMS

1 Steventon Film that should be all trains

2 Capital Transit B&W Night Film

3 Steventon film

4 Pennsy and B&O film

5 Back of Kodachrome box

6 Front of kodachrome box

I found several rolls of 16mm movie film within the boxes of audio tapes. Fortunately, Steventon was very good at labeling everything. He inserted little slips of paper into the film boxes listing the contents of the films. Unfortunately, the majority are family home movies. Most are of Steventon’s son Seth. His first day of school, Christmases, and birthday parties. There were six 100-foot reels that should be all trains.

16mm movies;

1. 100-foot reel but only about 50 feet of film. Labeled “Pennsy Fan Trip and B&O near Riverdale.”
2. 100-foot reel, full, labeled “Canada Term”. I’m not sure what that is supposed to indicate. I unspooled a few feet of film and the first few frames are without a doubt a steeple cab locomotive.
3. 100-foot reel, full, B&W, labeled “Cap Transit Night Film.”
4. 100-foot reel, full, labeled “EBT Reel 1.”
5. 100-foot reel, full, labeled “EBT Reel 2.”
6. 100-foot reel, full, labeled “Negative 1R Freight” Also written on box “bad footage.”

PRINT BLOCKS

1 Selection of print blocks

2 More print blocks

3 Still more print blocks

4. Print block for very early RRC traction logo

5. Railroad Record Club logo print block

6 Another style Railroad Record Club logo print block

7 Interurban car fron LP Sound Scrapbook-Traction

8 Interurban car fron LP Sound Scrapbook-Traction in two sizes

9 PRR steamer from 1st edition of RRC 10 in two sizes

10 D&RGW locomotive from the 1st edition of the LP the Siverton Train

11A Print block for NKP LP

12 Ad for RRC 25

13 Ad for RRC 25 reversed

14 Print block for large ad

15 Print block for large ad reversed

16 Ad for traction watch fobs

17 Ad for steam LPs

18 Ad for steam LPs reversed

19 Strange RRC ad

20 Strange RRC ad printed version

I also acquired a good number of print blocks, which are mostly quite small and were used in the RRC advertisements. I have a bunch of print blocks of the LP covers, all about the size of a postage stamp. They were used in ads and in the catalogs. There are a few complete ads that mostly feature a single record release. One large ad of interest is a very 1960’s, almost psychedelic illustration of a steam locomotive looming over a record player. Smoke is shooting from it’s stack and entwined within the billows of smoke are such things as a whistle blowing, a box cab electric locomotive, and a steam train. LPs are seen flying through the air and the words “steam and electric recordings” in twisted snake-like lettering fills the upper portion. Wild and unexpected. I would certainly like to know if this ad ever appeared anywhere in print.

I did not make a list of these small print blocks, there are just too many. I did photograph a representative selection of them. These photos will give a good idea of what is in the collection.

RECORDS

1 41 copies of RRC 3

2 18 copies of RRC 5

3 RCA test pressing for Sound Scrapbook Steam showing notation on upper left of sleeve

4 RCA test pressing for Illinois Terminal one of only 3 good discs

5 Back of RCA test pressing for Illinois Terminal

6 Close up of RCA test pressing for Illinois Terminal

7 Close up of RCA test pressing for NKP

8 RCA test pressing for CN showing damage

9 Metal press stamp

10 Metal press stamp with cardboard sleeve

11 RRC Nashville Metal press stamp

12 Metal press stamps in cardboard sleeves for RRC4 B&O

13 3 RRC Nashville Metal press stamps

14 Metal press stamp for RRC LP

15 Railroad Record Club SP-4 boxes and sleeves

16 Record jackets for each of the 3 records in the SP-4 set

17 Label for 1st edition of record 1 side 1 of RRC-SP4

18 Label for 2nd edition of record 1 side 1 of RRC-SP4

19 Label for 3rd edition of record 1 side 1 of RRC-SP4

Since the estate dealer would only sell me the tapes unless I bought the entire lot, including the remainder of the RRC LP stock, I had no choice but to buy them. I’ll admit I would not have wanted to see all these mint condition, still sealed LPs go in the trash, but what am I going to do with them and where am I going to store them? These questions I’m still contemplating. However, these concerns are secondary to preserving and digitizing the tapes. I have a few options, I can rent a table at a few railroadiania swap meets, contact a few local hobby stores and see if they are willing to sell some, and David and I have been thinking of making them available through the blog.

I’ll have to carefully consider my options. It would be nice to make a little of my money back and put it towards digitizing tapes. For the record, here is a list of the 12″ remasters. They are all still sealed and, for the most part, in mint condition. A few may have a bend or crease in the jackets and a few copies of RRC 20 have brown water stains in the lower right corner.

12″ remaster LPs:

41 copies of RRC 3, EBT/D&RGW
18 copies of RRC 5, D7rgw
36 copies of RRC 8 CN
29 copies of RRC 3 15, CB&Q
34 copies of RRC 16, Westside Lumber
25 copies of RRC 20, NYC/C&IM (6 copies have water damage)
15 copies of RRC 26, CNS&M Freight
22 copies of RRC 29, NKP 779

Included with the unsold record stock were several mint copies of the original 10″ LPs:

10″ LPs:
1 copy RRC 2, WCF&N
1 copy RRC 4, B&O
2 copies of RRC 5, D&RGW
1 copy RRC 7, N&W
1 copy RRC 8, CN
1 copy RRC 10, PRR
1 copy RRC 16, Westside Lumber
1 copy RRC 17, Soo Line
1 copy RRC 19, DM&IR
1 copy RRC 20, NYC/C&IM
8 copies of RRC 28, Charles City Western
1 copy RRC 29, NKP 779
1 copy RRC SP-2 NP 2626

Twenty-four RCA test pressing were included in the sale, ten 12″ pressings and fourteen 10″. All these pressings are stamped on one side only and on the paper sleeve of two of the 12″ pressings there is a hand-written note: “Masters will be 12 inch”. This is the one rather disheartening part of the story. All but three of these test pressings are in very poor condition. The accrete has flaked off in large chips. When I removed the disc from the paper sleeve to determine its condition, a black snowfall often resulted. I’m not sure what to do with these, they are really just trash now. I will photograph the label of each one for my archive but after that, I just don’t know. The three good discs are two 12″ pressings for both sides of RRC 15, CB&Q. It’s lucky that the only undamaged 12″ RCA test pressings are for the two sides of the same record. The one good 10″ disc is for side 2 of RRC 25, Illinois Terminal.

The metal stamping plates vary in condition. I was able to inspect these plates while at the dealer’s property last July, so I knew what to expect. I turned them down last year to save my money for what I considered the good stuff, the artwork and 78rpm records. All the original RCA stamp plates were lost in 1973, necessitating the 12″ remaster program. These plates are the Nashville-made stamps made in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. As I remember it, all 17 master plates were in the dealer’s warehouse. I only looked at them briefly but the top few were scratched and dented. Now, if I wanted the tapes, I had to buy them. Here I did a little dealing. Since these plates were a bit heavier than the records and I was paying for shipment by the pound, I convinced the dealer to choose a few of the stamps that were in the best condition. Those in poor condition he would not charge me for and he could discard them. The archivist in me wanted to save them all, but compromises must occasionally be made.

In all I got twelve of these stamps, five are 14″ and 7 are 12″.

I ended up with a bunch of returned records as well. Numbering somewhere around fifteen or twenty, these records were returned by buyers dissatisfied with them. Most of them have a note attached with the buyer’s name and his complaint. Things such as scratches, surface noise, and various clicks and pops were the most often cited reasons for the return.

An interesting find was various copies of the records that comprise the three-record set of SP-4. I was able to put together a set of each of the three pressings this set had. A surprise was a set of these records not in the display box that they came in, but in three separate record jackets. Each jacket had the same drawing of CSS&SB MU #108 that appeared on the box lid. Perhaps this was some sort of test printing or the original idea for the jackets. I may never know but I’m sure it is a unique set.

PHOTOGRAPHS

A Washington and Old Dominion RPO (Railway Post Office) on a mail run outside Rosslyn VA. Here is some additional information, via trainorders.com: “The shot of eastbound car 44 was taken at the grade crossing of North Quinn Street; which was located just outside of Rosslyn,VA near the west end of the bridge that carried the W&OD across Lee Highway and into the Rosslyn yard. 44 had been rebuilt into an RPO, by the railroad from a 1912 Southern Car interurban combine. After passenger service ended (for the first time) in 1941, 44 continued to run under wires by itself twice a day for mail and express duties; until the conversion to diesel power in 1942. After the power was turned off for good; 44 was hauled by a GE 44-tonner.”

NP 4-8-4 2686

CA&E Elgin train on street in Aurora IL 1931

Capital Transit PCC and bus Catholic University

D&RGW 476 locomotive featured on SP-1

D&RGW 481

Des Moines & Central Iowa car 1710

EBT 15 on a rainy day very likely while record 3 was being recorded

Evansville & Ohio Valley car 134

Ill Terminal car 285

Ill Terminal local on Caldwell Hill East Pearia about 1936

Indiana box car 550

Indiana RR 752 waiting for loads at mine scale

Indiana RR car 64

Indiana RR car 93 at Anderson IN September 4 1938

Indiana RR Vigo with rails ripped out.

Interstate car 711 ex-IPSC 427 September 3 1939

Interstate car 711 on shop siding west of Greencastle June 3 1939

Interurban car 44 and REA truck Rosslyn VA

MC&CL RR car 34

MC&CL Steeple cab 52

Nice right of way photo but no info other than date March 31 1936

S T F Co RR 54 Farmington MO

Unidentified car and person

Unidentified steeple cab locomotive

Unidentified steeple cab locomotive photo 2

Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern car 100 this car is featured on RRC 2

Here again I had to do a little dealing. I went quickly through the box of Steventon photos last year, choosing about 20 photos to purchase. The box contained a mix of railroad photos and family snap shots. The family photos outnumbered the trains. Again, I did not want to pay for, or have the added weight of photos that were just going to be tossed away. Steventon’s son was the one who sold all this family history in the first place, so I saw no reason to try and get it back to him. The dealer agreed to sort the photos and sell and ship only railroad photos. He would discard the unwanted photos.

In all there are 135 photos of railroad equipment, mostly traction subjects. Some have complete caption information, and some have nothing. There are 23 photos of active traction right-of-ways but no caption information. 24 photos of abandoned traction right-of-ways have no captions. I cannot be sure if it is a “before” and “after” series of 27 photos. I also received 11 steam negatives, the aforementioned NP 4-8-4 # 2686 (two almost identical shots at Staples, MN) and several D&RGW narrow gauge roster photos. There is one EBT negative and a shot of a steam tractor. I haven’t had time to scan all of these photos yet, but they will appear in the Trolley Dodger as I do. For now, here are a few scans to whet your appetite.

DOCUMENTS

Stack of prints of Soo 2715

VHS VIDEO TAPES

There was one last surprise waiting for me. There are eight VHS video tapes in the estate lot, seven of which were professionally produced programs of traction subjects, several of which Steventon provided audio for. One tape on a store-bought blank was labeled simply “Railroad Programs”. I thought it was most likely a tape of TV shows about trains, but I popped it in the player just to see. It turned out to be a recording of a presentation that Steventon made to a local historical society. The video quality is bad, but you can hear everything he says perfectly.

It’s all really basic stuff, what you would expect him to present to a general audience. Such things as the appeal of a steam locomotive, the nicknames of various railroad job positions like “Hogger” for engineer etc. He then gets into the “sound portion” of his talk. He has a reel to reel tape player with him, and he explains the use of whistle signals and then plays a cut of a B&O EM-1 from Record number 4, noting the “two longs-a short-and another long” signal for a road crossing. He then goes into how a steam locomotive gains traction. Here he plays the sequence of SOO Line 2718 backing off the wye track from the intro record. He stops the tape at places to note the change in the locomotive’s sound and what that indicates to the engineer. Next, he talks about the use of torpedoes as a signaling device and plays a cut from Record number 8. He never says that these sounds are from his records. In fact, he never mentions that he ever sold records and the Railroad Record Club is not once referenced.

He eventually brings out a chart of steam locomotive wheel arrangements. He walks out of frame with it, but you can still hear what he is saying. At some point someone thinks to pan the camera around, but the view is only the back of the chart!

By the time he finishes with the chart, the program has gone on for about 40 minutes. Now he introduces “Whistle ‘Round the Bend” and plays the entire record, all 30 minutes. While the camera never moves during this, and Steventon just sits there listening, it’s a bit of a poignant moment. The video quality, as I said, is poor, and he is in the center of a wide shot, but it’s still possible to see that he is moved by the words and sounds he his hearing.

While little information is given about how, where, or when the sounds he played were recorded a little more personal stuff is revealed. He tells of the day in 1936 that his mother died. His father was at work and needed to get home. The NYC put every opposing train on the siding and he had green signals the whole way. He also tells us that he was a sickly child and his father took him onboard the locomotive with him, even against the rules, because he wanted to spend time with him, and make William happy, as the doctors said he may not survive into adulthood. With this video I was able to “know” William Steventon just a little bit better.

As I have these tapes put on to CD, they will be offered for sale in the online store. I bought these tapes not to just save them from destruction, but to have them made available to everyone who may be interested. I think that is perhaps the best way to ensure these historic sounds are preserved. Not just as a tribute to the people who recorded them who are now gone, but to ensure these sounds will endure to instruct and entertain future railfans long after we are gone too.

-Kenneth Gear

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Farewell To Steam
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William A. Steventon’s Railroad Record Club

September 24, 2018September 24, 2018David Sadowski 11 Comments

William Steventon

Today’s post is the first of two by Kenneth Gear, long a friend of this blog. We have great news to report– Ken has finally been able to purchase all the remaining Railroad Record Club items from the dealer that purchased them many years ago from the estate of William A. Steventon, who died 25 years ago.

Ken details all that in another post, Railroad Record Club Treasure Hunt, Part 2. These new discoveries have enabled him to offer what is, to my knowledge, the first-ever comprehensive and factual history of William A. Steventon’s Railroad Record Club.

Thanks in great part to Ken’s dedication and persistence, you can find practically all the RRC’s 10″ and 12″ output, now digitized on compact discs for the 21st century, in our Online Store. We thank him for these efforts, and hope you will too.

-David Sadowski

INTRODUCTION

As regular readers of this blog know, David and I have been gathering bits and pieces of information about the Railroad Record Club and its founder, William A. Steventon. We wanted to get a better understanding of what went into making these records, and to put together a history of the club. David started the ball rolling in April 2015 when he wrote the first Trolley Dodger post about it. As soon as I read that post I jumped aboard having been interested in the subject for some time. Together we finally managed to accumulate enough separate fragments of the story so that when we put it all together, it formed an accurate outline of the events leading up to the formation of the club and offered some insight into its operation. We were also able to build a brief biological sketch of Mr. Steventon.

Separately David and I looked for any resource that might reveal some small bit of new information. We read liner notes, club newsletters, and we looked through back issues of magazines in search of RRC ads. We collected order blanks, and I purchased copies of records I already owned because they had club inserts tucked away in the jackets. I researched the meaning of the matrix codes engraved in the lead out grooves of the LPs to more accurately date them. We studied artwork and found some of Steventon’s personal correspondences. Everything came together when I purchased a large collection of Railroad Record Club items from Steventon’s estate. Combing through this material finally gave us enough information so that David and I could piece together the Railroad Record Club story you are about to read.

There are still unanswered questions to be sure and there are also missing recordings. We haven’t been able to secure copies of the 5th and 6th year sampler records. We also can only speculate on how, to whom, and at what cost these sampler records were distributed.

If any readers have any RRC material, please contact David. We only ask for a scan of any paper work or leads you may be able to offer as to who might be able to help. Thank you.

I have recently been able to purchase the last of the Steventon estate items I left behind last year (more on that in A Railroad Record Club Treasure Hunt, Part 2) and with luck David and I will be able to put together a few more pieces of the Railroad Record Club puzzle.

WILLIAM STEVENTON & THE RAILROAD RECORD CLUB

William A. Steventon was born in 1921 in Mount Carmel, Illinois, son of a locomotive engineer on the Big Four Railroad (New York Central). As a child he spent much of his time around the red brick passenger station and wooden freight house across from Main Street. The family eventually moved to Cairo, Illinois and there he would often ride in the locomotive cab with his father. In the liner notes to Record number 20- NYC/C&IM while describing an in-cab recording made with his father at the throttle, Steventon reminisces about his boyhood days spent there:

“It is strange that this recording should remind me of something that I had almost forgotten. If I hadn’t heard my father pull a whistle cord in 50 years, and in the distance I should hear a certain whistle, I would know that it was him. This recording also reminds me of the many times I had waited as a youngster for him to whistle near Cherry switch to let us know he was coming home from a north-end run. It reminds me of the many times I have walked down Washington Street in Cairo and heard him whistling in the yards.”

After serving in World War II Steventon married and took a government job. He and his wife settled in the Washington DC area and it is here that the Railroad Record Club story begins.

It all began when Steventon’s wife gave him a record of Railroad sound effects as a Christmas gift, most likely in 1952. While he was interested in the concept of recorded train sounds, he was very dissatisfied with this record. He was convinced that the sounds were not those of actual trains, that they were train “effects” created in a recording studio. He wanted sound recordings of REAL trains. He purchased one of the new reel to reel tape recorders that had recently become available and in March 1953, set out to make his first railroad sound recordings.

First recording

The first recording he made was along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at the Riverdale, Maryland passenger station (MP 32.4 on the Washington Branch). As best as can be determined, the first train he recorded was # 523 the “MARYLANDER” powered by an EMD diesel (he did not make note of the locomotive number). His second train was powered by steam but in his haste to hear the recording immediately after making it, he accidently partially erased it! He wrote about his frustration in an article for TRACTION & MODELS Magazine:

“When we made our very first recording in 1953 we took the equipment to Riverdale, Maryland and recorded a steamer thundering past the B&O station. When it was gone we stopped the recorder, rewound the tape and played it back. Nothing happened-the tape was silent. we waited thinking that the steamer wasn’t within “hearing distance” as yet, but when it became evident that we should be hearing the sound, we investigated. In our enthusiasm to “get recording” we had failed to become familiar with our equipment. Instead of pushing the playback key, we had pushed the record key and were erasing the sound we had just recorded.”

That partially erased recording, as well as the others he made that night, were discovered on a 78rpm acetate record in his estate. It is included on the Trolley Dodger Railroad Record Club Rarities Steam & Diesel CD.

During the next few years, Steventon made numerous railroad sound recordings, both in and around Washington DC and on trips to visit family in Illinois. Near Washington DC he recorded the streetcars of the Capital Transit Company, steam & diesels on the B&O, and Pennsy GG-1s. He even recorded the sounds of the Senate Subway. He made trips to Maryland to record the Western Maryland, the Hagerstown & Frederick interurban cars and freight box motors, and he rode and recorded the Baltimore streetcars. In Pennsylvania he recorded mainline steam on the PRR, revenue steam on the East Broad Top, and made extensive recordings of the Johnstown Traction Company and the Altoona & Logan Valley. In Illinois he captured the sounds of the New York Central, Chicago & Illinois Midland, Nickel Plate, Illinois Central, and Chicago Burlington & Quincy among others. He did recordings of the passenger and freight operations of the Midwestern electric railways including the Illinois Terminal, Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee, Chicago Aurora & Elgin and even recorded an entire run of Chicago South Shore & South Bend M.U. car # 108 from Chicago to South Bend. In Iowa he added the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern, Southern Iowa, Cedar Rapids & Iowa City and Charles City Western. In his travels he made recordings of the Pacific Electric, Shaker Heights Rapid Transit, Wabash, Soo Line, Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge, and Norfolk & Western. In a 1958 newspaper interview he stated he had traveled to fifteen states to record train sounds. It is quite an extensive output and not all of it has been pressed into vinyl or released on tape or CD.

All this recording did not come easily. Dragging the equipment from home to car and from car to trackside required the help of at least one other person. Steventon wrote about the difficulty of using this bulky equipment in the field:

“We had a 12-volt auto battery for the primary power source, a 12 v.d.c. to 110 v.a.c. rotary converter, a reel to reel recorder plus a satchel of extra equipment, tapes, and assorted material. Two men could struggle with all this equipment, but it required three men to carry everything with any degree of ease and mobility. In addition, we normally carried a battery charger for use with keeping the battery up to par during the night. This could be left in the auto during the day but was a very necessary part of our total equipment requirement.”

It is a wonder anyone was able to record anything, considering the burden it must have been to get all this stuff trackside. It makes one grateful for the ability to record high quality sound and high definition video with just a tiny cell phone as we can do today.

Steventon eventually took a job as manager of the Cream Valley Telephone Company and he and his wife moved to Hawkins, Wisconsin. There he would continue to make railroad sound recordings, start a family. and create the Railroad Record Club.

Doing all this traveling and making these recordings invariably put him in contact with like-minded people. It is safe to assume that they would want to trade and share the recordings they made with each other. In the mid-1950s this was no easy task. Modern home audio systems, as we think of them now, simply did not exist. The problem was made even worse if recordings were to be shared or sold to someone who did not make recordings themselves and therefore did not own a reel to reel tape player/recorder. While most people at the time did not own a tape player, a phonograph could be found in most homes.

Steventon pre-RRC 78rpm records

If Steventon wanted to give or sell his recordings to many other people, they would have to be put onto phonograph records. This too, wouldn’t be easy. The solution was to procure a portable disc cutter. These machines became available for home use starting in about 1929 and were most often used to record things off the radio. The standard record format of the time was a disc ten inches in diameter and made of aluminum covered with acetate. The 78rpm playing speed yielded no more than five minutes of content per side. These records had to be made in real time and the record blanks were quite heavy compared to a modern vinyl record. To distill more and varied content on these homemade records, he spliced together all sorts of bits and pieces and recorded brief introductions to tell listeners what they were about to hear. He conceived a catalog numbering system and had rubber stamps made for the most popular titles, the rest having hand-written labels. Steventon produced an extraordinary amount of records this way. Finding a sizable collection of these acetate records in the Steventon estate reveled just how extensive the output was. Although a complete catalog listing of these records can not presently be made, the following partial list is still very impressive.

01. Potomac Edison (aka Hagerstown & Frederick)
02. Shenandoah Central
03. Capital Transit
04. Johnstown Traction
05. Altoona & Logan Valley
06. Baltimore & Ohio
07. Shaker Heights Rapid Transit
08. Claude Mahoney Radio Program about NRHS fantrip (1953)
09. Pennsylvania Railroad
10. Nickel Plate Road
11. St. Louis Public Service
12. Illinois Terminal
13. Illinois Central
16. Norfolk & Western
17. Western Maryland Railway
18. Baltimore Transit
19. Senate Subway (Washington, DC)
21. Rochester Subway
22. East Broad Top
23. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
24. Chicago & Illinois Midland
25. Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto
26. Virginian
28. Queensboro Bridge
29. Wabash
30. 3rd Avenue Elevated
31. Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie
32. Louisville & Nashville
34. St Elizabeth’s Hospital (hospital in Washington DC that used a 0-4-0T to move coal from the B&O.)
37. Independent Subway

It is worth noting that this numbering sequence is totally different from the later one adopted for the 10” records issued later.

Things were apparently going well for Steventon’s railroad record enterprise for a while but things were about to change. Long playing 33 1/3 rpm records made of lighter materials and with improved sound were beginning to gain in popularity. Record blanks and parts for the disc cutter would undoubtedly become harder to get. Steventon needed to have his records made by a professional record pressing company to continue selling them. Steventon would have to make new master tapes for each release because the new records, although still 10”, could hold fifteen minutes of sound on each side-a full half-hour altogether. This would be the equivalent of more then five of the old acetates. He would forgo, for the most part, his spoken introductions and provide printed notes on the cardboard record jackets. These notes could be pretty sparse at first, containing little more than the railroad and locomotive number.

RRC intro record

RRC INTRO old SP5

Bill Steventon recording compressor noise on CNS&M interurban

Eventually he began to write extensive notes on separate sheets of paper that were inserted into the record jackets. In time, the first completed master tape was sent off to the RCA Custom Record facility in Indianapolis, Indiana and soon afterward the first official Railroad Record Club LP came into being. The record was titled simply INTRODUCTORY RECORD and carried no catalog number. Side one contained the sounds of Soo Line 4-6-2 # 2718 powering an August, 1955 fan trip between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Illinois Central 0-8-0 # 3509 switching at Centralia, Illinois was featured on the flip side. A look at the first four characters in the matrix code engraved into the lead-out grooves of a first edition of this record, G8OL, gives the following information: First is the date code-G indicates the record was manufactured in 1956, then the label code-8 showing it was a custom job that was re-recorded from the client’s source material. Next is the category code-O meaning it is a phonograph record, and the fourth character-L denoted the size, speed & groove, 10”, mono, & 331/3 rpm. The final numbers 0479 for side one and 0480 on side two were simply sequence numbers. The Introductory Record was therefore available for sale sometime in 1956 or perhaps 1957.

He made the decision to sell these new records not as a regular mail order business, but as a club. The club membership idea may have been the direct result of the expense associated with this new endeavor. He had to have the records pressed by RCA which required metal master plates to be made. Cardboard record jackets had to be purchased and be printed with photographs or drawings. Tape stock had to be bought for the making of the new master tapes. All in all, this must have been a considerable expense. Selling the records through a club meant that the members were required to purchase a set number of records and paying for them in advance, thereby guaranteeing he would get some return on all this investment. The club worked like this: Four records would be offered per year. Members could buy the records at the discounted price of $4 each providing they maintained membership by purchasing at least three of the selections. Membership expired upon the purchase of one year’s group. There were no membership dues, but records were paid for in advance to provide the necessary money to have the metal masters made. Special pressings could be purchased at club prices but were not counted toward the three-record minimum. Non-members could buy individual LPs at $5.25 each. $4.00 for a LP record sounds like a bargain but remember those $4 in 1958 had the same buying power as $34.72 in 2018! These Records weren’t cheap. According to a 1958 interview he gave to the Milwaukee Sentinel, the club started off very well. The article stated that there were some 200 club members through out the United States and several foreign countries including New Zealand, Australia, England and Canada. It goes on to state he has already sold 1,000 records.

Steventon continued to sell his records through the yearly club membership plan until October 1965 when the club membership requirement was withdrawn. The records would now be sold separately and at the same price to everyone.

From 1957 with the release of the Introductory record until October 1965 when the last regularly scheduled production of a Railroad Record Club release (Record number 32-New York Central) was offered, Steventon produced thirty-two regular club releases and three special pressings. One more release, SP-4-CSS&SB would be released later that year. Afterwards, Steventon released Records Numbers 33-36 and special pressings numbers SP-5 (a reissue of the introductory record) and the last all new Railroad Record Club record in 1983, number SP-6 Milwaukee Road box cab electrics. Each record was simply numbered in the order it was produced.

RAILROAD RECORD CLUB TITLES
0 Soo Line, Illinois Central (Introductory Record)
1 Wabash Railroad, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
2 Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern, Southern Iowa Railway
3 Denver, Rio Grande & Western, East Broad Top
4 Baltimore and Ohio
5 Denver & Rio Grande Western
6 Potomac Edison (Hagerstown & Frederick)
7 Norfolk & Western, Illinois Central (Also includes a bit of Illinois Terminal Railroad)
8 Canadian National (aka Canadian Railroading in the Days of Steam)
9 Winston-Salem Southbound
10 Pennsylvania Railroad
11 Shaker Heights Rapid Transit
12 Duluth Missabe & Iron Range
13 Nickel Plate Road
14 Pacific Electric
15 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
16 Westside Lumber Company
17 Minneapolis & St Paul, Sault Ste Marie Railway
18 Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee
19 Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range
20 Chicago & Illinois Midland – New York Central
21 Duluth & Northeastern
22 Buffalo Creek & Gauley
23 Pennsylvania Trolleys
24 Canadian Pacific
25 Illinois Terminal Railroad
26 Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee (freight)
27 Capital Transit Company
28 Charles City Western – Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern
29 Nickel Plate Road
30 Sound Scrapbook, Traction
31 Sound Scrapbook, Steam
32 New York Central
33 Chicago, South Shore & South Bend (freight)
34 Chicago, South Shore & South Bend (freight)
35 Milwaukee & Suburban Transport, Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee
36 Chicago, Aurora & Elgin, Chicago Transit Authority

Special Pressings
SP1 The Silverton Train
SP2 Northern Pacific 2626 Memorial Album
SP3 Whistle ‘Round the Bend
SP4 Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad (passenger)
SP5 Soo Line, Illinois Central
SP6 The Milwaukee Road (electric freight)

He also produced several “sampler” records which contain short snippets of tracks from the LP records.

THE RAILROAD RECORD CLUB SAMPLERS

1st & 2nd Year Sampler: (short excerpts from records 1 to 4 on side one & records 5 to 8 on side two)
3rd & 4th Year Sampler: (short excerpts from records 9 to 12 on side one & records 13 to 16 on side two)
5th Year Sampler: (short excerpts from records 17 to 20 recorded on one side only)
6th Year Sampler: (short excerpts from records 21 to 24 recorded on one side only)
7th & 8th Year Sampler: (short excerpts from records 25 to 28 on side one & records 29 to 32 on side two)

Among these forty-two LPs there are some real gems. He certainly started off strong with Record Number one. On side two there is one of his best “sound picture” type recordings. It features Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha 2-8-0 # 219 switching in the yards at Spooner, Wisconsin on a dark misty night in October of 1955. This was one of his favorite audio sequences and he described it like this in the record’s reissue liner notes:

“Close your eyes and imagine you are in a Pullman berth. Your passenger train has stopped at the station and you are sleepily listening to this nearby switching movement.” And from the notes to the original release: “That night in October of 1955 was very dark, moonless and misting heavily. The sulfuric, yet nostalgic odor of coal smoke drifted sluggishly over the Spooner, Wisconsin yards as the sound of exhausts and squealing brakes seeped through the murky atmosphere. A dim yellow light at the south end of the station platform rocked in the wind, flicking shadows to and fro over the moving cars.”

If you don’t feel the dampness, smell the coal smoke, or find that you need to shake off a chill while listening to this, you’re just not trying.

There are so many remarkable sound sequences on these LPs that it would be impossible to list them all, Some of the most interesting ones include: a D&RGW narrow gauge train with a mid-train helper on Cumbres Pass on Record number 3, the B&O EM-1 stopping and starting sequences on Record Number 4, a PRR 4-8-2 on slick rail on Record number 10, the cab rides in CSS&SB freight motors on Record numbers 33 and 34, the list goes on and on.

William Steventon did not exclusively use his own recordings on the Railroad Record Club LPs. In the second year of the club he began to utilize the talents of his friends, and the most notable of the group was Elwin D. Purington. Mr. Purington’s considerable recording talents added greatly to the quality of Steventon’s releases. Three records were entirely comprised of his recordings and they are three of the best. Record number 8-Canadian National (re-released as “Canadian Railroading in The Days Of Steam”) is one of Steventon’s favorites, and SP-2 the Northern Pacific 2626 memorial album Steventon called “a masterpiece.” He provided the sounds for side one of Record number 12-DM&IR and his recordings of the CMSt.P&P electric freight locomotives are featured on Record SP-6. He also did the narration on Number 3-East Broad Top and SP-3-Whistle ‘Round the Bend. Thomas A. Hosick recorded the train sounds for Record number 9-Winston-Salem Southbound, and John L. Wise contributed to Record number 10-PRR. Harold O. Lewis did some fine recording work that was used on three LPs, Record number 16-Westside Lumber, number 24-Canadian Pacific, and number 31-Sound Scrapbook-Steam. Eugene Van Dusen made all but the final three cuts for Record Number 32-NYC, and finally A. L. Shade, another top-notch sound recorder of trains, added his talents to Record numbers 13-Nickel Plate, 29-NKP 779 and 22-Buffalo Creek & Gauley.

Excellent HM Pech cover RRC 5

Marginal HM Pech cover 1st edition of Record number 8

RRC 19

The sounds on these LPs were great right from the start, but it took awhile for the record jackets to evolve into something interesting and appealing. At first the record jackets had little in the way of cover art, nothing more than a small photo or two plus a few paragraphs of text. Eventually sketches of the featured locomotive pulling a train were added, usually draw by an artist who signed his work HM Pech. These drawings could range from excellent (Record number 5) to marginal (1st edition of Record number 8). All mediocrity was removed for good when the cover art for Record number 19 was revealed. The cover of this record is a very nice accomplishment. The drawing of DM&IR 2-8-8-4 # 222 is perfect in every way. This great drawing combined with an appealing layout makes for a wonderful cover. A new visual benchmark for the Railroad Record Club had been reached and there was no going back. The drawing was done by Marshall P. (Pat) McMahon. He worked for the Minneapolis Star Tribune as an illustrator. His drawings of railroad equipment are flawless. The detail is meticulously rendered and drawn with precision and skill. Mr. McMahon would from here on out, be the main artist used by Steventon to illustrate the record jackets. When second editions of previously released records were pressed, McMahon would be called upon to create a new cover drawing. Every one is a vast improvement over what had come before. He also got the call to do new drawings when the records began to be reissued on 12″ discs, and he even did at least one drawing that Steventon sold prints of (Soo Line steamer # 2715). He would go on to do cover illustrations for thirty record jackets for the club! Rounding out the list of artists employed by the Railroad Record Club: Ernie Towler did a fine pencil sketch of a Shay locomotive for the 12″ reissue of Record Number 16-Westside Lumber and he did the cover of the reissue of number 15-CB&Q. Herb Mott did a painting of a boy watching a steam train passing for the cover of SP-3-Whistle ‘Round the Bend. This record has the distinction of being the only one with a full color cover.

RRC 17 Steventon enjoyed being here Hawkins WI Soo station

RRC 17 1st edition drawing Hawkins WI Soo station

RRC 20

Advertising had to be done, and ads were placed in several railroad and modeling magazines including Trains and Model Railroad Craftsman. Such tag lines as “Authentic steam and electric railway recordings,” “Sounds you like to hear steam-traction,” and “Out of the past and into your home” were used. A mailing list was maintained, and announcements and sales information mailed directly to those on it. Records were sold in hobby stores, and Steventon sent LPs to railroad historical societies that coincided with the group’s interests. He even devised a unique “Audition Set Program”. To audition a set of records a request form had to be filled out. A choice could be made as to which records were wanted but a choice of pre-selected LPs could be made by choosing ” all steam” or “all traction” or both. A “random” selection could be made giving the customer the choice of titles and number of records. A deposit in the following amounts had to be sent: “all steam” consisting of 25 10″ records-$100.00, “all traction” consisting of 15 10″ records-$60.00 and “random” $4.00 each. After listening, the records were to be returned with (hopefully) a purchase order. The money for the purchased records would be deducted from the deposit and the remainder returned with the record order.

Eventually Steventon branched out and began to sell all types of things. His biggest sideline was selling photographs. The photo catalog alone was 40 pages! He sold 16mm, 8mm and super 8 traction movies, books, records from other producers, he even had a line of railroad logo watch fobs! In one sales flyer he was trying to unload his old adding machine, a Sears model No. 871.58251 (he wanted $40 for it postpaid).

After 1965, when The Railroad Record Club stopped functioning as a club, not much else changed. Steventon continued to release records and in fact had plans to release many more. In a 1966 newsletter Steventon makes mention of future planned releases, unfortunately not all of them were produced. He writes: “Future releases will be made on the basis of availability of time and material. At this writing an “on train” recording of the old 1000 series Chicago South Shore & South Bend locomotives is in production. No release date has been set.” (Records number 33 & 34). He continues: “Other material for future work includes many steam and electric lines including the Shenandoah Central (never produced), Baltimore & Ohio (never produced) Chicago Aurora & Elgin (Record Number 36), Chicago Transit Authority (record number 36) Queensboro Bridge (never produced) and others.”

This newsletter also announces the first Railroad Record Club selection ever to be released on 12” discs-Special Pressing number 4. “On December 21, 1965 a new milestone was established with the release of a set of three 12-inch 33 1/3 rpm recordings of the complete run of interurban No. 108 from Chicago to South Bend. Approximately two hours playing time and conveniently arranged for automatic playing sequence. Prepared and recommended for the devoted traction enthusiast.”

Through the rest of the 1960s and into the 1970s Steventon successfully sold his records. Some of the most popular selections had second and even third editions pressed, and the covers and liner notes continued to evolve, The liner notes were becoming more extensive and contained more information, not just about the equipment recorded, but somewhat personal stuff as well. For example, on record number 17, the entirety of side one contains the sounds of the activities going on inside the Hawkins, Wisconsin Soo Line station. Although Steventon writes in the third person he conveys his pleasure at being there. The sound of the telegraph, talking with the agent, the rumble of trains going past, the whole “atmosphere” he loved. “Plant your feet on the desk” he writes, “lean back in your chair and you’re the agent at this small village station.” He wrote fond boyhood memories in the notes to Record number 20 and revealed in those same notes just how he felt about diesel locomotives. He wrote that while recording a C&IM 0-8-0 switcher going about her chores, he was “dismayed” and “disgusted” when a GM&O RS-1 came onto the scene. He included the diesel on the record however, noting that the steamer and the diesel sharing the stage made for an interesting recording. As he puts it: “Actually this could be considered as the tug-of-war between two types of motive power as to which will dominate the railroad scene”. At this point, he had to be dismayed to know steam would be the loser. Eventually his negative view of diesels must have softened a bit because in 1988, when he revised the notes to Record number 20, he removed the word “disgusted” although he continued to be “dismayed”. Steventon never released an LP that was entirely diesel sounds. He recorded diesels with some degree of regularity, as his first recording was of one. In his estate there was an open reel tape labeled “Nickel Plate Diesels” and on those acetate records there are plenty of B&O diesels. Perhaps he thought his record buying customers wouldn’t want to spend money to hear those “disgusting” machines. Rarely is the sound of a diesel included on any of the records.

The Railroad Record Club continued steadily along until early in 1973. A situation then developed that could not be easily overcome, in fact, it never would be completely. Early in that year RCA informed Steventon that they would no longer press his records. In club announcements concerning this situation Steventon wrote “In February of 1973 they (RCA) notified us that all of their custom work was being discontinued.” If RCA would not press his records, he would just have to find another company that would. That plan quickly died when another, more devastating difficulty was discovered. RCA had lost or destroyed all the Club’s metal master discs at its Indianapolis plant. Without those master discs new records could not be pressed by anyone. Steventon was stopped cold. If he wanted to continue selling his previously released records, new master discs would have to be made. By the early 1970s 7” singles and 12” albums were the standards and the old 10” format was on the way out. New master discs would have to be made and they would have to be 12”. Steventon managed to surmount these obstacles. He found a new company to work with, Nashville Record Productions of Nashville, Tennessee.

Even as the process of remastering and pressing new records progressed, Steventon was cautious with his expectations. He wrote carefully in a flyer about the remastering: “Due to a shortage of raw material record pressings may become difficult to obtain. Consequently we have no guarantee that our complete line can be produced, but will re-issue each record as conditions permit.” Interested parties were mailed a “Railroad Record Club Advance Notice Mailing Card.” On this card selections were to be made as to which records the recipient wanted to be notified of when the 12” reissue was being readied. The recipient could then purchase the record at a pre-production discounted price. Progress was made, albeit very slowly. The RCA masters were lost in the winter of 1973 but by summer 1976, only two records had been reissued. The first two being number 10-PRR and the second Number 8-CN now titled “Canadian Railroading in The Days Of Steam.” Steventon could not simply reissue the records numerically starting at number one and progressing from there. This was a very expensive undertaking and he needed to release the most popular titles first. At first, he considered having all the records remastered at once and getting a press run of each. This idea was dropped when the cost turned out to be more then $30,000! He decided to go back to his original club plan where he required a set amount of those pre-production advance payments to come in. Once there was sufficient interest shown for a certain record, as calculated from the advance mailing cards, he would announce that it was being readied for remastering. He would only send an order to Nashville when enough of the pre-production money came in to justify it.

In a telling reply to an inquiry from a customer wanting to know why a certain record, number 36, was still unavailable, Steventon spelled it out clearly:

“The program of re-mastering was started in ’73 after RCA lost our metal masters. The pre-production offer is used to generate funds to pay for the re-mastering process. As a rule of thumb it takes about 125 pre-payments to cover these costs. Experience has shown that roughly only 50% of those who ask to be notified on a new selection actually follow through with an order. Thus we need 250 requests to start the program. As of this date (March 29, 1989) only 99 have shown an interest in record 36, CA&E. The pressing firm in TN has just notified us of another increase in production costs. Dollar wise we are now talking $1100 to $1200 to re-master and get the first press run. The RR club is not a profit venture – we only ask to break even. In 1987 we operated at a loss of $444.10. 1988 was better with a modest net income of $119.75. We need EVERY bit of interest shown to keep the program rolling – it is a tough job!”

It was a tough job to be certain and it was also a very slow one. An order blank from November 1984 shows only eight remastered records, Number 4-B&O, 7-N&W/IC, 8-CN, 10-PRR, 19-DM&IR, 29-NKP 779 and SP-5-SOO/IC the ex-intro record. Also for sale at that time was a second pressing of SP-4 the CSS&SB three record set. Also listed on this order blank was a brand new record. Even with the remastering difficulties going on the Railroad Record Club managed to release one last all-new record. This last hurrah was special pressing number 6-The Milwaukee Road- Box Cab Electric Locomotives on the Coast Division, recorded by Elwin Purington in stereo. On the jacket SP-6 is touted as the “30th Anniversary Issue 1953-1983.” Another fine McMahon drawing graced the cover.

As each 12” reissue was produced, Steventon would revise and update the liner notes. If the record had an existing McMahon illustration it was transferred to the new jacket in the same size it appeared on the 10” jacket, but with a wide white border. If a reissue did not have a previously drawn McMahon picture, one would be commissioned. These black and white record jackets were distinctive and attractive. On the reissues the audio content was always identical to the 10” version, since the same master tapes were used. There was one exception, however. Although the railroad sounds were exactly the same, on the original release of Record number 3-EBT/D&RGW, Steventon had recorded spoken introductions to each of the EBT tracks, just as he had done for the old 78 acetate records in fact, they are exactly the same. Steventon wanted these introductions removed to correct a mistake and instead of simply taking them off and writing the information into the liner notes, he had Elwin Purington re-record them.

The long and expensive remastering project continued into 1990. A test pressing for Record number 16-Westside Lumber had a memo attached that read: “Record No. 16, Westside Lumber Co. Record pressing approved if “blips” at approximately 3 min, 36 seconds into side one and continuing for about 6 or 7 seconds were corrected. Card returned 1/10/90.” Not all of the surviving test pressings have dates on the jackets, but it is obvious that this one had to be among the last. By the early 1990s’ compact discs were already poised to topple vinyl records as the standard audio format. Steventon simply choose not to upgrade to yet another new format. Record number 16 being reissued in 1990, proves that Steventon worked at remastering the records almost to the end of his life. He died in 1993, just three years after the test pressing date for Record number 16. The long, expensive, and difficult remastering program started in 1973 and continued into at least 1990. In all only 17 of the 40 10” records were reissued on 12″ discs.

RAILROAD RECORD CLUB RECORDS REISSUED IN 12″ FORMAT
#1-WABASH (10″ 3rd Edition Cover Art)
#3-D&RGW/EBT (New Cover Art)
#4-B&O (New Cover Art)
#5-D&RGW
#7-N&W/IC (New Cover Art)
#8-CN (New Cover Art) Title changed to “Canadian Railroading In The Days Of Steam”
#10-PRR (10″ 2nd Edition Cover Art)
#15-CB&Q (New Cover Art)
#16-Westside Lumber (New Cover Art) Cover changed from a photograph to a pencil sketch
#17-Soo (New Cover Art)
#18-CNS&M (10″ 2nd Edition Cover Art)
#19-DM&IR
#20-C&IM/NYC
#26-CNS&M (Freight)
#29-NKP 779
#SP-2-NP 2626 (Same photo used on both 10″ & 12″ record covers but reproduced smaller on the reissue)
#SP-4-CSS&SB (passenger) 3 record set was only released on 12″ stock in display box
#SP-5-Soo/IC Formally the introductory record (New Cover Art)
#SP-6-MILW Box Cabs (Only released in 12″ format)
17 records reissued from 10″ to 12″
2 records only released on 12″

The Railroad Record Club didn’t completely die with William Steventon. His son Seth revived the club some years after his father’s death by putting the entire line of records on cassette tapes. By this time, however, CDs were the favored format and the effort was shelved.

Because of William A. Steventon’s commitment to recording the vanishing sounds of a passing era on American railroads, and just as importantly, making those recordings available to all who were interested, we can today hear the sounds of a Hagerstown & Frederick interurban car speeding past a lonely country crossing. We can experience the sonic thunder of a New York Central 4-6-4 blasting out of Mount Carmel, Illinois with a whistle full of water. We can ride along in the cab of a CSS&SB freight motor on its trip out of Michigan city, and we can enjoy the work of the other talented railroad recordists whose work Steventon put on his records. We can even listen to that whining rotary converter in Harristown, Illinois.

-Kenneth Gear

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Farewell To Steam
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While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. The City of Chicago broke ground on what would become the “Initial System of Subways” during the Great Depression and finished 20 years later. This gigantic construction project, a part of the New Deal, would overcome many obstacles while tunneling through Chicago’s soft blue clay, under congested downtown streets, and even beneath the mighty Chicago River. Chicago’s first rapid transit subway opened in 1943 after decades of wrangling over routes, financing, and logistics. It grew to encompass the State Street, Dearborn-Milwaukee, and West Side Subways, with the latter modernizing the old Garfield Park “L” into the median of Chicago’s first expressway. Take a trip underground and see how Chicago’s “I Will” spirit overcame challenges and persevered to help with the successful building of the subways that move millions. Building Chicago’s subways was national news and a matter of considerable civic pride–making it a “Second City” no more!

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Redone tile at the Monroe and Dearborn CTA Blue Line subway station, showing how an original sign was incorporated into a newer design, May 25, 2018. (David Sadowski Photo)

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The Magic of Jack Bejna

August 4, 2018August 15, 2020David Sadowski 14 Comments

CA&E Car 52 (Stephenson, 1902).

Some of you have a device called a Magic Jack to make telephone calls using your home computer. But as many of our readers know, this blog also has a “Magic Jack” all of its own.

Today’s post features the work of Jack Bejna, whose pictures have been featured here many times previously. He loves finding old photographs and works his own brand of magic on them, making them look better using Photoshop.

We thank him for sharing these great images with our readers. The comments that follow, in this section, are Jack’s. Just to keep a hand in, we also have a few additional photos of our own that follow.

Enjoy!

-David Sadowski

Chicago Aurora & Elgin at Laramie Avenue

Here are a few shots of the yard at Laramie Avenue. The first shows the yard looking east with the freight shed at the right, and at the left a CTA train heads west. The second shot features a CA&E train heading west (not sure but looks like a motorman in the front window). The third shot is at the freight house looking west. The tracks in the foreground were used to store CA&E trains when not needed, and many photographs of CA&E cars were taken at this location through the years. The fourth shot shows a CA&E freight at Flournoy Street heading west. In the background can be seen the mid-day storage tracks for CA&E cars.

CA&E Lockwood Yard at Laramie.

CA&E Laramie Yard overview.

CA&E Laramie Ave freight house.

CA&E 7 at Flournoy Street, Laramie Yard.

Chicago Aurora & Elgin Wheaton Yards

CA&E car 18 (Niles 1902), plus cars 44 and 423.

CA&E car 24 (Niles 1902).

CA&E car 26 (Niles 1902).

CA&E car 28 (Niles 1902).

CA&E Car 34 end view (Stephenson, 1902).

CA&E Car 34 (Stephenson, 1902).

CA&E Car 36 (Stephenson, 1902).

CA&E Car 48 (Stephenson, 1902).

CA&E Car 52 (Stephenson, 1902).

Detroit Jackson & Chicago

I believe that all of these pictures were taken in or near Jackson, Michigan. The Jackson depot is lettered Michigan United Railways in one picture, Michigan United Traction Comapny in another, and the cars are lettered Michigan Railway Lines, all as a result of several changes of ownership of the Detroit Jackson and Chicago lines. Also included is a map of downtown Jackson.

Jackson Interurban Station postcard.

Jackson Interurban Station.

Jackson, Michigan Traction Map.

Michigan Railway Lines – Car 1.

Michigan Railway Lines – Car 2.

Michigan Railway Lines – Car 3.

Michigan Railway Lines – Car 16.

Michigan Railway Lines – Cars 27 and 64.

Michigan Railway Lines – Car 65.

Michigan Railway Lines – Car 85.

Michigan Railway Lines – Car 647.

Detroit United Railway

Some years ago a friend of mine told me that her uncle had died and left a lot of railroadiana behind, and I could have a look and take anything I wanted. Most of the stuff was not worth anything but I did come across two small (4”x 6”) two ring binders that were full of Detroit United Railways and Michigan Interurban equipment photos. The DUR photos had in-depth tech specs on the photo back for the particular car pictured. The pre-printed tech spec info form was dated: Rep cost 10-1-1921. I believe these photos were part of an audit for an upcoming fare increase request. I therefore believe that the photos were taken circa 1921.

I kept the binders and several years ago I started scanning them and Photoshopping them when I had time to spare. The quality of the pictures (i.e., exposure, lighting, etc.) varies but there are a number that are fine following a lot of Photoshop work.

Most of the photos don’t include the location where the photo were taken, and, since I’m not familiar with Michigan towns and cities, I don’t have any idea where the pictures were taken, with some exceptions.

I hope that readers of your fine blog may help to identify locations of some of the photographs.

DUR Car 1026

DUR Car 1857

DUR Car 1939

DUR Car 2004

DUR Car 2046

DUR Car 2105

DUR Car 5200

DUR Car 5623

DUR Car 7001

DUR Car 7051

DUR Car 13

DUR Car 1861

DUR Car 7053.

DUR Car 7067.

DUR Car 7081.

DUR Car 7103.

DUR Car 7105.

DUR Car 7256.

DUR Car 7263.

DUR Car 7272.

DUR Car 7288.

DUR Car 7292.

DUR Car 7312.

Recent Finds

CTA wooden “L” car 1024 at the Illinois Electric Railway Museum in North Chicago, February 1960. The original museum location was at the Chicago Hardware Foundry Company, adjacent to the North Shore Line tracks. Some of the wooden “L” cars were operated under their own power to North Chicago. This car, originally built by Pullman in 1898 as Northwestern Elevated Railroad 24, has since been restored to its original condition at IRM in Union.

Illinois Terminal Railroad line car 1702, built by that operator in 1922, at North Chicago in February 1960.

Illinois Terminal car 101 at IERM in North Chicago in February 1960. Don’s Rail Photos: “101 was built by American Car in 1917 as AG&StL 61. In 1926 the car became StL&ARy 61 and in 1930 it became IT 101. On March 9, 1956, it was sold to the Illinois Electric Railway Museum and is now at Union, IL.” This car ran between St. Louis and Alton.

Don’s Rail Photos says, (North Shore Line) “213 was built by Cincinnati in March 1920, #2445, as a merchandise despatch car. In 1940 it was rebuilt as a disc harrow ice cutter. It was retired in 1955 and sold to CHF as their 242. It was donated to Illinois Railway Museum in 1964.” Here, we see the car at the Chicago Hardware Foundry Company in February 1960. This was also then the location of the Illinois Electric Railway Museum.

Chicago Aurora & Elgin car 419 is eastbound west of DesPlaines Avenue in Forest Park in November 1951. The gas holder, at right, was a local landmark for many years.

This photo appears to have been taken on Clark Street across from Lincoln Park during one of those late 1950s Chicago streetcar fantrips (possibly October 21, 1956). I thought this one was interesting, since the man at left may very well be noted railfan William C. Hoffman, whose films and slides are now part of the Wien-Criss Archive.

I realize this is not the greatest quality picture, but it does appear to show the late Bill Hoffman shooting film using a tripod to steady his camera.

Bill Hoffman and his sister Dorothy at their home at 6622 S. Maplewood Avenue in Chicago on December 26, 1981. Two nicer people, you will never meet. Both are sadly long gone. (Wien-Criss Archive)

More about the Hoffmans from Jeff Wien:

Dorothy and Bill were twins. They were born on May 15, 1910. Bill was 78 when he died (July 5, 1988) and Dorothy was 88 when she died. Dorothy died on May 10, 1999, five days short of her 89th birthday.

Dorothy was a wonderful person. Very generous in her donations to the Illinois Railway Museum in Bill’s memory. She funded the Hoffman Garage and other motor bus related projects. Dorothy donated over $800,000 to IRM, mostly motor bus related.

The Chicago Transit Authority, whose operating area covers most of Cook County, added the words “Metropolitan Transit” to its logo around 1958. This image was made from an original Kodalith originally in the collections of the late Robert Selle. My guess is he obtained it from the CTA back in the late 1950s. A Kodalith uses graphic arts film, and was likely made from the original logo artwork. Graphic arts film renders things in either black or white, and does not include gray tones as would conventional film. This image was not made by taking a picture of a logo on the side of a bus or “L” car. (Wien-Criss Archive)

Don’s Rail Photos says that North Shore Line car 231 “was built by Cincinnati in May 1924, #2720, as a merchandise despatch car. It was rebuilt as a plow in 1949.” That’s the configuration we see it in here. It does not appear to have been saved.

This interesting scene shows North Shore Line car 413 (and train) turning off street running on Greenleaf Avenue in Wilmette on the Shore Line Route, which uit in 1955. The building at right is still standing.

The same location today. We are looking east. North Shore Line cars turned into what is now the parking lot at left, before running north parallel to the Chicago & North Western tracks.

Lehigh Valley Transit 812 is shown running a special at Souderton PA on May 14, 1951. Service on the Liberty Bell interurban ended in September 1951, and unfortunately, this car was not saved.

Baltimore Transit Company “Peter Witt” car 6076 is on Route 8 on Fayette. Don’s Rail Photos adds, “6051 thru 6100 were built by Cincinnati in 1930 and retired in 1955.” I thought of this since the body of a similar 1930s Peter Witt car from Indianapolis was being stored at the ill-fated Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville. Hopefully, it can be saved. (Walter Broschart Photo)

Chicago Aurora & Elgin wood car 301 at the Wheaton Yards on July 8, 1955. Don’s Rail Photos: “301 was built by Niles Car & Mfg Co in 1906. It was modernized in December 1940.” As part of this modernization, the car’s stained glass windows were covered up. Unfortunately, this car was not saved.

Chicago Aurora & Elgin 138 at Laramie Yards on May 17, 1948. Don’s Rail Photos: “138 was built by American Car Co in March 1910, #844, as C&ME 138. It was rebuilt in 1914 and no retired date.” Starting in 1936, the CA&E leased several wood cars from the North Shore Line, including this one. They were returned to the NSL in 1945 and operated there briefly before being purchased by CA&E the following year. These cars were no longer needed after the September 1953 cutback in service to Forest Park and were scrapped. I believe we are looking to the west. (Richard J. Anderson Photo)

This three-car train of Chicago Transit Authority 4000-series “L” cars is signed as a Howard Street Express in June 1949. (L. L. Bonney Photo) Our resident south side expert M. E. adds, “Methinks this photo was taken looking west at the Indiana Av. (at 40th St.) station.
Because the train destination sign says Howard Express, the location has to be on the main north/south line. (Plus, this train had to originate on the Jackson Park branch, because Englewood trains at that time ran to Ravenswood.) Also, I don’t recall any other three-track main anywhere else on the north/south line. Also, Indiana Ave. had the overhead walkway to get to and from the Stock Yards L, which terminated to the left of the left-hand platform in the photo.
When this photo was taken, the Kenwood L ran as through service from 42nd Place, through Indiana Ave., up to Wilson Ave. Later in 1949, the Kenwood service was cut back to a shuttle ending at Indiana Ave. The inbound station platform was extended over the northernmost track, then mainline north/south service used the middle track heading downtown. A fuller explanation is at
https://www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/kenwood.html .
Also of interest is that this photo shows a three-car train. Before the advent of new equipment in 1950 there were no “married pairs” of cars. Trains could be as small as a single car, which I recall seeing on the Englewood branch on Sunday mornings.
Plus, the three-car train shown in the photo would have had two conductors whose job was to open the passenger entry doors (which were on the sides, at the ends of the cars) using controls situated between the cars. So conductor #1 operated the doors at the rear of car 1 and the front of car 2. Conductor #2 operated the doors at the rear of car 2 and the front of car 3. Side doors at the front of car 1 and the rear of car 3 were not used by passengers. To operate his side doors, a conductor had to stand between the cars. (Yes, in any weather.)
And the conductors had to notify the motorman when to proceed. To do this, the conductors had to observe when there was no more boarding or alighting at their doors. They used a bell system to notify the motorman. Two dings meant “proceed”. One ding meant “hold”. The rearmost conductor started with his bell, then the next rearmost, etc., until two dings rang in the motorman’s compartment, his signal to go. The longer the train, the longer it took to leave the station.”

The late photographer Robert Selle writes, “CTA one-man car 6180 turning north onto State Street from 43rd Street (43rd Street line), August 1, 1953.”

The Chicago Surface Lines decorated several of its streetcars for patriotic purposes during World War II, but here we see 1741 postwar on March 19, 1946, promoting the American Red Cross. I believe this southbound Broadway-State car is operating on Wabash just north of the Chicago River, as the new State Street bridge did not open until 1949.

Bob Selle: “CTA car 115 northbound on Kedzie Street line at 35th and Kedzie, July 23, 1953.” Daniel Joseph adds, “I do not believe this photo is at Kedzie & 35th Street. 35th Street never went to Kedzie and 36th Street had street car tracks.”

Philadelphia Transportation Company 2023 was one of only three “Brilliners” in its fleet. Don’s Rail Photos: ‘2023 was built by Brill Car Co in April 1939, #23763-006. It was scrapped in August 1956.” Presumably PTC did not purchase any additional Brilliners, as it considered them inferior in some ways to PCC cars. Here we see 2023 at an unknown location on July 23, 1950. Jeff Wien adds, “The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, predecessor to PTC, purchased three Brilliners (2021-2023) in 1939. Thus, PRT/PTC owned more than one Brilliner.
Brilliner 2021-2023 3 Brill *1939 **1956 GE 1198G1
* Date Acquired **Date Retired
They were unpopular with operators because they were not PCC cars and there were only 3 of them in the fleet. They looked like PCC cars to the naked eye, which the riding public probably assumed they were.”

California Street Cable RR car 41 is on Hyde Street at Union Street in San Francisco in 1947. (W. Sievert Photo)

Recent Correspondence

Miles Beitler writes:

I have seen the attached photo in various sites on the internet. The photo shows a Lake Street train which apparently failed to stop at the Market Street terminal at Madison Street and ran through the bumper at the end of the line, derailing the first car which hangs over the edge of the structure. I thought the purpose of the bumper was to prevent a train from running beyond the end of the line, but it apparently didn’t work too well in this case.

The date would appear to be the late 1930s or 1940s (pre-CTA), but I have not found any information or newspaper articles describing what happened. I assume that means there were no deaths or injuries. It could even have been an empty train. Do you have any information about this?

I continue to enjoy your blog — keep it up!

I reached out to Andre Kristopans, who replied:

Not seeing the photo in question makes it harder, but this is what I can say. In wood car days, a wood car could take a pretty bad hit and survive to see service again. CRT was so broke that they were forced to fix anything that wasn’t totally destroyed as they could not afford to replace anything. That said, this is a possible list of candidates it the car in question was totaled:

3055 (trailer) 1929
1732 1944

Other early retirements are all shown as “fire”, so not likely. However, there were about a dozen cars that CTA retired in 1948 which were apparently in wrecked or burned condition before 10/1/47 but still on the books that were simply written off without any actual scrapping dates recorded. Lake St cars on this list were trailers trailers, so not likely.

As far as Market St service, it was thought that three AM trains circled the loop and then backed into Market St. This is not correct. Three trains left Austin at 656, 709, 727AM making all stops to Hamlin, then Oakley and all stops to Madison/Market and laid up. There might have been additional layups coming off the loop, however. Then they left between 507 and 613PM (6.5 to 12 min headway, so more than three trains) making all stops to Oakley, then Hamlin and all stops to Forest Park.

Sorry, I thought the photo would come across. At any rate, it does look like a trailer, and the number is 3053, although it desn’t appear to be wrecked, really.

The picture certainly does look like the 1940s, though.

Thanks.

Andre replied:

Well, this explains a lot. 3053 lasted until 4/51, so it certainly survived. Also, it was not a control trailer, so the motorman was at the other end of the train, backing in, and overshot his stopping point.

Pittsburgh Mystery Photo

Jeff Wien recently obtained this photo processed in September 1965, but without any other information, noting, “The photo was taken after route 55 was converted to motor bus, so it is not route 55 streetcars that we see in the photo.”

Jeff contacted James B. Holland, who writes:

It is at the Flood Control Barrier (one can see track goes single immediately right of PCCs) on the 55 line and within ‘eye+sight’ of E. Pittsburgh, except for the curve in the road!!! It is worked by an extended 65-line: Lincoln Place (loop on 56) to Homestead Loop on 8th. The 65-line loop in Homestead (also shared by former 60-line shuttle to East Liberty) was just west of Rankin Bridge. The 55-line shared track with 65 thru Homestead on 8th between Amity and 60/65 Loop and beyond to Rankin Bridge which 55 crossed to East Pittsburgh. Thus, with demise of 55, the 65 was extended from Homestead to E. Pittsburgh for ‘some time.’ The 60/65 line loop in Homestead was used by the 55A, a rush Hour tripper To/From downtown Pittsburgh.

The Carlson PCC book Coast To Coast lists both 65 and 55 as ending on the same date, 5 September 1965. A note in the table (Pgs168-169) indicates: “[55] Hays to Pittsburgh (including 57) abandoned 04 Jul 1964 balance [worked by extended 65 abandoned] by PAT modernization on [09 Sep] 1965.” Thus It Seems the 65 line was extended for 1 year plus two months. Many are not aware of this. I have pictures distinctly signed 65 also distinctly working the 55.

With Glenwood Car House closed in 1961 and routes operated from South Hills, several years before PAT, and with Glenwood Bridge banned to trolleys, 65 line left South Hills and probably used Forbes and Braddock to Rankin Jct and ‘to extended route’ from there. (Interesting to note: 55 Owl terminal was Rankin Bridge, at least post-rebuild.)

I do not know if the extended 65 used the old dedicated loop in East Pittsburgh which was not quite in “downtown E. Pittsburgh”. The 65 line may have looped in E. Pittsburgh proper on Braddock to Electric, Linden, Beech and Braddock.

In case any of our readers have additional information, Jeff is still trying to find out the name of the steel mill shown in the photo. (Editor’s note: John Suhayda adds, “The Pittsburgh Mystery Photo shows the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, east of Pittsburgh, along the Monongahela River.”)

Richard Wilke writes:

What a wonderful website! Thank you for all the information I was able locate about the CA&E! I am looking for any photo of the last stop at Mannheim & 22nd Street on the Westchester branch. My uncle lived in Wheaton on Electric Avenue. He somehow acquired the station signage from that last stop, and I have yet to confirm that the sign that I now have, as being from that end of line stop! Is there someone in your organization that might be able to confirm its existence with a picture of said sign? It’s a 14″ x 7′, deep blue with white block lettering, reading, MANNHEIM-22nd. Would appreciate any information to find its true history!

I found a picture of that station on Graham Garfield’s excellent web site. It is dated 1951, which was when service ended, and although it is not very sharp, you can see two signs. The photo is credited to Bernard L. Stone:

https://www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Westchester/mannheim-22nd01.jpg

On the other hand, Mitch Markovitz writes:

I saw the photo of the sign that reads “MANNHEIM 22nd STREET” in the latest Dodger. I don’t think it’s authentic at all. The type is way too contemporary, and doesn’t match anything else the “L” did as far as signs. Including the photos with the two signs at the platform. The blue is way too light as well.

Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks.

-David Sadowski

Finally, Jack Bejna writes:

Thanks for the kind comments and the forum to share my photographic efforts with the interurban/streetcar community. It’s nice to know that someday when I’m gone my collection will have been shared with the electric railroad enthusiasts that remain.

There are more Detroit United Railway photos to be posted as well as photographs from the Michigan interurbans that vanished long ago so stay tuned to this great blog!

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Redone tile at the Monroe and Dearborn CTA Blue Line subway station, showing how an original sign was incorporated into a newer design, May 25, 2018. (David Sadowski Photo)

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January 1, 2018January 2, 2018David Sadowski 5 Comments

2017 in Review

Another year has come and gone. How quickly time flies. For this blog, it was another successful year, with 118,985 page views from 34,503 visitors. These numbers are more than 2015, but less than 2016.

We made fewer posts last during 2017, but they tended to be longer overall. Some had more than 100 images, and there are over 100 in this post. To date, we have posted over 30gb of classic images via this blog. It’s no coincidence that when I do Google searches on traction subjects, it seems like half the “hits” that come up are from The Trolley Dodger.

One of our goals has always been to provide a resource where people can find this type of information. I believe we have succeeded, and will continue to build on that success. There are some who think our hobby is on the decline, but I believe we have shown just the opposite.

Our average number of page views per post has continued to increase. In 2015, it was 995 per post; in 2016, this increased to 1744, and in 2017 we reached 3718 page views per post.

2017 was also notable for the publication of our book Chicago Trolleys, which has been very well received.

While at this stage, it is impossible to know how many posts we will have this year, we are committed to maintaining a high standard of quality on whatever we do present.

Among our other recent posts, we are particularly proud of The Fairmount Park Trolley (November 7, 2017), which included dozens of rare images, most from the original medium format negatives. It took us nearly three years to collect all this material, which probably represents a total cost of about $1000- and this was just one post.

As an example of how we have inspired additional research, I would point to our post The “Other” Penn Central (May 29, 2016), which has gradually gotten longer and longer, thanks to additions from our ever-inquisitive readers.

In addition, as time goes on, we have more and more friends who share their material with our readers. Today we feature the contributions of noted author Larry Sakar. The pictures are his, unless otherwise noted.

Happy New Year! May you and your family have health, wealth, and happiness in 2018.

-David Sadowski

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Early Trolley Museum Visits

Larry Sakar writes:

You’ve been posting a lot of photos of CA&E cars of late, which reminded me of a day 47 1/2 years ago when I went to a trolley museum for the very first time. For several years, I would see the ads for IRM in Trains, Railroad (before it became Railfan & Railroad) and Model Railroader and I wanted to go there. Asking my father would have been useless. He wouldn’t have taken me in a million years. Neither of my parents approved of my interest in trolleys.

Luckily I had met Bill Beaudot in 1967, when he was the librarian in charge of the Local History Room at the Central Library downtown. My regular visits to read and reread CERA B-97, “The Electric Railways of Wisconsin” got him wondering what that was all about. All the remaining CERA Bulletins and other traction books had been removed from circulation, and placed under lock and key in the Local History Room.

And so it was that on a warm Saturday afternoon in August of 1970, I went with Bill and his family to my first trolley museum. But it was not IRM, well not initially anyway. The first museum we visited was then called RELIC in South Elgin, IL. RELIC was an acronym for the Railway Equipment Leasing and Investment Corp. Today we know it as the Fox River Trolley Museum.

CA&E wood car 20 was in operation that day, and we rode it from South Elgin to the end of the line at the I.C. bridge over the Fox River at Coleman. When they told the history of the line, I remembered that this was the line from which Speedrail cars 300 and 301 originated.

Of course, they spent 25 years in Cleveland operating on the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit, but so what? It was still nice to see where those cars began their service lives. And sitting on a side track was a car I had heard and read about innumerable times: NSL Tavern Lounge 415. Some years later they sold the car to Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.

CA&E car 20 at the RELIC museum, August 1970.

The interior of CA&E car 20 in August 1970.

CA&E 300-series car at the RELIC museum in August 1970.

CA&E 300-series car at the RELIC museum in August 1970.

The Illinois Central interchange at Coleman with the ex-AE&FRE right-of-way, at the RELIC museum in August 1970.

North Shore Line tavern-lounge car 415 at the RELIC museum in August 1970.

Leaving South Elgin and RELIC we headed for Union, Illinois and IRM. As we crossed the museum line and entered the grounds, I saw Milwaukee streetcar 972 with CSL 144 behind it loading at the station. Instantly, I felt like a kid again, when I would get excited as my grandfather drove my grandmother and me to the Harwood Avenue terminus of the No. 10 Wells Streetcar line in Wauwatosa.

In those days you turned from Wauwatosa Ave. west to Harwood. You found yourself at the top of a very steep hill that dropped down into the Menomonee River Valley, and crossed the Milwaukee Road mainline at grade. And on the west side of those tracks sat the Harwood terminal and the No. 10 Wells streetcar line. A 100-car plus Milwaukee Road freight would cause a monumental traffic jam on both sides of the Harwood hill. In the ’80’s a bypass was built, and traffic no longer has access via the old route. Just as well. Both the streetcar and terminal are long gone.

Anyway, I did get to ride 972 and it felt like 1957-58 all over again. I even made sure to relive my childhood memory of streetcar rides with my grandmother by walking to the opposite end of 972 and sitting in the motorman’s seat. The only difference was I no longer needed someone to boost me up and hold me in the seat!

So here are scans of the prints from the pictures I took that day. I had a great shot of TM 972 speeding down the mainline, but I gave it away about 10 years ago, unfortunately.

While looking through some other pictures, I came across four pictures I took at IRM sometime in the 1980s or ’90s. Two are of my favorite car (after TM 972) Indiana RR 65 and 2 are of AE&FR 306 currently undergoing restoration. Car 65 was flying white flags and was not in regular service. It had been taken out for use in some movie.

I don’t remember much of the detail I heard, but it involved George Krambles in some way. That’s as much as I can recall. 306 was in the car barn parked next to IT 101. I did ride 65 on a member’s weekend once years ago. We reached the end of the line at the Kishwaukee River crossing. They threw whatever electric switches they had to in order to put control over to the back-up controller in the rear of the car, but it refused to budge. Our motorman had to radio for a car to come to our rescue. They sent down C&ME 354.

That was my first and to date only ride on that car. I’ve heard that 65 does not operate very often. While going thru a large group of my slides last Thursday that I had marked as “unidentified,” I found the interior photo I knew I’d taken of CRANDIC 111 at Rio Vista in 2000. I need to look thru the slides I have in my metal slide box #2 of 3. I’m sure I took at least one exterior of CRANDIC 111 that day.

Aurora Elgin & Fox River Electric 306 at the Illinois Railway Museum in the 1980s or 90s.

Aurora Elgin & Fox River Electric 306 at the Illinois Railway Museum in the 1980s or 90s.

CSL 144 at the IRM depot in August 1970.

CSL 144 with TM 972 ahead, August 1970.

Illinois Terminal 415 at speed on the IRM main line in August 1970.

The interior of Illinois Terminal 415 at IRM in August 1970.

Illinois Terminal 415 at the IRM depot in August 1970.

Indiana Railroad 65 at IRM in the 1980s or 90s.

Indiana Railroad 65 at IRM in the 1980s or 90s.

A North Shore Line 700-series car at IRM in August 1970.

Following the RELIC and IRM pix are a set of pictures taken on a PA Transit PCC in Pittsburgh in the winter of 1971-72. I did not take these pictures. My good friend Bill did, and gave them to me because he knew I liked PCCs.

Because I have never been to Pittsburgh, I am unable to tell the readers where these pictures were taken. PA Transit, for anyone not familiar with it, was the municipal agency that took over the Pittsburgh Railways Co. in 1967. PA stands for Port Authority, not Pennsylvania.

It has always struck me as unusual that streetcar service would be run by the Port Authority, but the Port Authority of Allegheny County was given the task of transit operations, odd though that may seem.

I can still remember the controversy in Railroad Magazine over how the Pittsburgh PCCs were painted in the late ’60s and perhaps early ’70s. Many were painted in three colors, each color being placed on one-third of the car. In keeping with the times one PCC was painted in this wild looking paint scheme and dubbed the “Psychedelic trolley.”

PA Transit 1727 in 1972. (Bill Beaudot Photo)

PA Transit 1727 in 1972. (Bill Beaudot Photo)

The interior of PA Transit 1727. (Bill Beaudot Photo)

A PA Transit PCC with the motorman using a switch iron in 1972. (Bill Beaudot Photo)

I’ll finish up with a few shots of the Illinois Central Electric (later METRA Electric) Highliners taken mostly as 115th St. Kensington station around 1975. I remember when I.C. first got them, and now they too are history.

-Larry

An ICG Highliner at Randolph Street in 1975.

An ICG Highliner at 115th in Kensington in 1975.

Looking north at the Kensington station, as a South Shore Line train approaches in 1975.

Looking north along the northbound track at Kensington station in 1975.

Looking south from the Kensington ICG station, with the tower to the left.

ICG Highliner interior.

An ICG Highliner at 115th Street in Kensington in 1975.

Sunny California

For all readers of The Trolley Dodger who are shivering in this arctic cold here’s a posting that will let you temporarily escape to a much warmer place; sunny California. During the 50s, 60s and 70s, California (except for San Francisco) shed its electric traction lines as fast as they could.

Much of this was due to a company called National City Lines. In city after city they bought up the rail lines (San Diego Electric Railway, Los Angeles Railway, Pacific Electric, Key System Transit), abandoned all rail service and replaced it with Mack or GM Buses running on Firestone Tires and probably burning diesel fuel supplied by Phillips Petroleum. And they didn’t limit their destructive efforts to just California.

Then came the 1980s, and slowly California began to wake up from its love affair with freeways. And it all started with the San Diego Trolley in 1981. So, it’s only appropriate that we begin our look at traction in the Golden State there.

The San Diego Trolley’s original cars were built by Duewag of Dusseldorf, Germany with help from Siemens.

Originally, the San Diego Trolley line to the Mexican border started here.

Self-service. Passengers entered the car by pressing the black button, seen to the lower right of the door.

Trains bound for the Mexican border had a San Ysidro destination sign.

The interior of the beautifully restored ex-Santa Fe (now Amtrak) San Diego station.

Look at that beautiful tile work, including the Santa Fe logo on the wall.

Interior of a Duewag car – spartan, but functional.

No controller, no brake handle – computerized push-button control.

A typical stop on city streets.

The maintenance facility on the line to San Ysidro.

A modern-day Southern California car barn, San Diego style.

More of the maintenance facility.

City College stop. Fare checkers board here.

Amtrak Redondo engine maintenance facility.

Arrival at San Diego. looking toward the rear of the train.

Arrival at San Diego. looking forward toward the front of the train.

Curving southeast through an industrial area. Note signal at right.

Curving southeast through an industrial area.

Leaving LAUPT, passing Mission Tower.

Now you know why the line was renamed the San Diego Surfliner.

Oceanside, CA – quite literally.

I can’t think of a city that so completely turned its back on electric rail transit and embraced freeways the way Los Angeles did except for Milwaukee.

In her 1969 Grammy Award winning song, composed by the magnificent team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Dionne Warwick asked the question, “Do you know the way to San Jose?” One of the lines in the song says, “LA is a great big freeway. Put a hundred down and buy a car.”

I can’t speak to “putting a hundred down to buy a car,” other than to say perhaps in 1969, but very unlikely in 2018! But I can attest to the sentiment that LA was and still is “a great big freeway.” There are two Amtrak routes between San Francisco and LA. The Coast Starlight is a long-distance train operating once daily between Seattle and LA. But like any long-distance train, it is often subject to delays. Even on time, arrival in LA is not until 9:00 pm.

The other San Francisco to LA train is a corridor train called the San Joaquin, operating between Jack London Square station in Oakland and Bakersfield. All Amtrak service between San Francisco and other cities arrives and departs from either Jack London Square station in Oakland or Emeryville station. Emeryville is a separate city, 12 miles north of Oakland.

And yes, it is the Emeryville where the Key System had its shops.

Passengers going to San Francisco are bused across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge via Amtrak Thru-Way buses. In the golden age of rail passenger service, trains such as SP’s San Joaquin Daylight, the Lark and the Owl plied the tracks between San Francisco and LA. But when Amtrak took over in 1971 the SP and later UP which now owns the tracks forbade Amtrak trains to continue over the Tehachapi Mountains from Bakersfield to LA.

Therefore, passengers such as me boarded an LA bound Amtrak Thru-Way bus on August 7th at Bakersfield for the two-and-a-half hour ride down I5 and the Hollywood Freeway to LAUPT. This was not my first trip between Bakersfield and LA, so I knew what to expect the closer we got to LA. From the Magic Mountain Amusement park in Valencia to Glendale, where my bus was making a stop, I5 was a sea of cars in both directions.

As bad as that seemed, the Hwy 1012 Hollywood Freeway to downtown LA was even worse. It made rush hours on the Kennedy and Eisenhower look like child’s play! I kept asking myself, “How does anyone put up with this, on a daily basis?” And gas prices in California were at least $1.00 per gallon higher than here in the Midwest. In fact, I think it safe to say everything costs more out there!

So, what brought about this miraculous turnaround from asphalt and concrete to rail? I could tell you, but as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. I took this photo from the Griffith Park Observatory which is perched some 1300+ feet above LA in the summer of 1980 just before the rail renaissance began. Note that orange cloud on the far horizon. That is smog and it coats LA like a blanket daily. It is unhealthy to say the least and extremely bad for people with asthma and other respiratory problems. I can only guess that one day, someone woke up and pondered, “How did we get ourselves into this mess?” That’s easily answered. You allowed National City Lines and Metropolitan Coach Lines to take over and destroy Los Angeles Railways and Pacific Electric the system that literally helped build southern California.

The last PE line from LA to Long Beach was abandoned by the LAMTA– an agency formed to save remaining rail transit in LA but which, because it was controlled by some of the same people who ran Metropolitan Coach Lines, did the exact opposite. That was in April1961, but luckily the right of way between LA and Long Beach was saved, as parts of it were used by Southern Pacific (of which PE was a part) for freight service.

So, it was only fitting that after an absence of almost 30 years, electric transit service between LA and Long Beach was reborn in the form of the new LA Metro Blue Line on July 14, 1990. And just two-and-a-half years after that, the new LA Metro Red Line subway between downtown and North Hollywood opened for service.

Ironically, the new subway was built just one block (in places) from the old PE Belmont Subway. (Note: Though often referred to as the Hollywood subway because PE trains headed there and to other locations in and near the San Fernando Valley such as Universal City and North Hollywood as well as Glendale and Burbank) operated thru it. But its official name was the Belmont subway, no relation to Belmont Avenue in Chicago.

LA from the Griffith Park Observatory in 1980.

The LA Red Line subway at the 7th Street/Union Station stop in 2001. The LA Red Line subway is used by passengers to reach the Blue Line to Long Beach. Long Beach trains end in their own subway a few blocks from the Staples Center (LA’s version of the United Center). I believe these are Japanese Kawasaki-built cars.

Long before BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) began service between Oakland and Fremont in 1972, there was the Key System. Started in 1903 by a man called “Borax” Smith, who became a millionaire mining Borax. If you’re around my age perhaps you remember the 19670’s TV show “Death Valley Days” hosted by actor Dale Robertson which was sponsored by 20 Nuke Team Borax.

The line got its name because, when viewed on a map, the 5 East Bay lines were designated by letters:
A: Downtown Oakland later extended to East Oakland on the tracks of the Interurban Electric Ry. an SP subsidiary which was abandoned in 1941
B: Lakeshore and Trestle Glen
C: Piedmont
D: Never used. Reserved for a line to Montclair alongside the Sacramento Northern Interurban which was never built
E:Claremont
F: Berkeley

They resembled the top part of a skeleton key, the straight bottom portion represented by the Key Pier, which jutted out into the Bay 1.3 miles from the Oakland shore. San Francisco-bound passengers transferred to Key System Ferry boats at the Key pier for the trip to the San Francisco Ferry Building at the foot of Market St.

In January 1939 Key System trains began using the newly constructed San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Tracks were laid on the lower deck of the bridge which was reserved for trucks and buses. A newly constructed terminal at 1st & Mission Streets in San Francisco (initially called the “East Bay Terminal” and then the “Trans Bay Transit Terminal”) served as the station for Key System trains, as well as Sacramento Northern and Interurban Electric. The latter two systems both abandoned service in 1941. Key took over some on the former IER trackage in and around Berkeley.

In 1938 newly-built articulated trains replaced the original wood center-entrance cars. As the saying goes, looks can be deceiving, and such was the case with the new articulated trains. They were, in fact, a new body placed atop salvaged components from the original wood cars, which consisted of everything from trucks to controllers. Worse yet, the new bodies had a major design flaw. They lacked proper ventilation. They were not air conditioned and did not have openable windows. Cars ran on third rail between the Trans Bay Terminal and the Key Bridge Yards in Oakland which abutted the Oakland toll plaza.

The Bay Bridge, like the Golden Gate Bridge and every Transbay bridge in San Francisco, is a toll bridge operated by the California Toll Bridge Authority. Each of the companies running trains across the Bay Bridge were required to deed a certain number of cars to Toll Bridge Authority ownership. This would prove fortuitous as the cars now preserved at the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City, CA and the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Riverside, CA were ones deeded to the Toll Bridge Authority.

Key System 187 at the Western Railway Museum in 2000.

A Key System Transit train in the Trans Bay Terminal in 1953.

Key System 182 at the Western Railway Museum in 2000.

Key System 182 at the Western Railway Museum in 2000.

The Trans Bay Transit Terminal at 1st and Mission in San Francisco, razed in 2011.

In 1946, the Lundeberg management sold its interest in the Key System to National City lines. As was almost always the case with any rail lines acquired by NCL, the streetcar lines in and around Oakland, operated by Key subsidiary East Bay Transit Company, were converted to bus operation in 1948. Key trains operated until April 1958 when the last trains crossed the Bay Bridge for the final time. The State of California spent huge sums of money to remove the overhead wires and rails from the Bay Bridge and Trans Bay Terminal to accommodate Key System Transit’s new Mack and GM Buses.

In 1960 Key System was acquired by A.C. Transit which still operates buses across the Bay Bridge to East Bay points to this day. A.C. stands for the two counties who operate the bus line, Alameda and Contra Costa.

The Transbay Transit Terminal was razed in 2011 and is being replaced by a new facility a few blocks away on Folsom Street. Unfortunately, the new terminal, which had been due to be completed in 2017, has been stopped from completion by a lawsuit filed by the nearby Millennium Towers Condos Building. The 58-story building with luxury condos, selling for upwards of $3 million and home to celebrities such as Joe Montana, is sinking into its foundation at an alarming rate and is also tilting as a result.

Its developers blame the contractor building the new Trans Bay Terminal claiming he drained out too much of the ground water causing the Millennium building foundation to shift in the sands which anchor it. The contractor for the new Trans Bay Terminal has counter-sued claiming that the Millennium Tower’s builder should have anchored the building’s foundation in the bed rock 200 feet below. Until the issue is resolved, a temporary Transit Terminal is open at 200 Folsom Street.

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority operates buses and one light rail line from Santa Teresa to Alum Rock in the San Mateo-San Jose area. It will connect with BART when the line is extended into San Mateo County. At least three major Silicon Valley companies will be served: Cisco Systems, eBay and Adobe.

The light rail line operates between Santa Teresa and Alum Rock. The car seen here, and its mates, were sold to the Sacramento RTD when VTA purchased new low-floor cars.

An VTA Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority LRV at Santa Teresa station in 2000.

Sacramento RTD at Roseville Yards in 2004.

Sacramento RTD at Roseville Yards in 2004.

Sacramento RTD at Roseville Yards in 2004.

Sacramento RTD at Roseville Yards in 2004.

Sacramento RTD service started between Watt I-80 and the Historic Folsom District on 3-12-87.Within the past year a branch to Consumes River College was opened. The maintenance facility for the Sacramento RTD is located in adjacent Roseville, north of Sacramento, a city located at the southern base of the Sierras. The four photos seen here were taken from Amtrak Train #5, the California Zephyr, on the way to Emeryville in 2004.

A year before the Key System abandoned rail service in April 1958, planning for some sort of new Transbay rail line was being contemplated. That became the Bay Area Rapid Transit district. This was a county-based, special-purpose district formed to construct and operate a rail transit system in the five counties that initially formed the district: The city and county of San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and San Mateo.

Though invited to participate, Santa Clara county declined to join until 2018 when BART will enter San Mateo County, with the extension to Milpitas and Berryessa. In 1962 San Mateo County supervisors voted to leave BART, claiming their voters would be paying taxes for riders primarily from Santa Clara County. San Mateo eventually formed its own transit agency called SAMTRANS. The departure of San Mateo County lead to the departure of Marin County as well.

Construction of BART began in 1964, but it would not be until 1972 that the first trains operating between Fremont and Oakland would begin service. Initially, there was a debate about how BART trains would cross the Bay. Would it be an above ground crossing or a subway tube? The decision was made to dig a trench in the floor of San Francisco Bay and construct a subway tube between San Francisco and Oakland. All other parts of the system would be elevated (parts of Oakland immediately after trains leave the Transbay tube), subway (through Berkeley) or private right-of-way, often in the median of existing expressways.

Author Harre Demoro frequently insisted, in his books, that BART was neither the modern day Key System or Sacramento Northern. I disagree. In my opinion it is both. It serves many of the same cities served by Key or SN, and even utilizes parts of the old SN right of way in Concord, Rockridge, and West Pittsburg.

When I visited the Western Railway Museum for the first time in 1996, I rode an interurban saved from a system I’d never heard of, called the Peninsular Railway. A Google search revealed that the line had run in the San Mateo/San Jose area now known as “Silicon Valley”. One of the stations served by the Peninsular Railway was Berryessa. In 2018 the new BART extension into San Mateo County will provide service to two new stations; Milpitas and Berryessa. The Peninsular Railway abandoned service in 1934. It has taken 84 years, but electric rail transit is back in Berryessa. Let’s go for a ride on BART.

-Larry

Along the right of way to Milbrae and the SFO International Airport.

Another view of the BART Oakland yards.

Approaching the station loading area.

A BART C train, built by Alstom circa 1995.

The BART SFO International Airport station in 2004.

A BART train arriving at the SFO International Airport in 2004.

C car interior. Note the blue colors, versus brown for the Rohr-built cars.

The BART Concord station, on the former Sacramento Northern right-of-way.

Concord station, close-up of BART train.

A BART C train at Civic Center station.

The interior of a Rohr-built BART car.

Oakland Yards near the MacArthur station.

The operator of a BART car signs in.

The operator’s cab in a BART car, all computer controlled, like San Diego.

An original Rohr-built BART train at Balboa Park station.

The people mover at the SFO International Airport.

Pittsburg Bay Point station, the farthest east point on BART.

The BART Pittsburg Bay Point station passageway to the park and ride lot.

Reflections of a railfan taking a picture of the people mover at the SFO International Airport.

A view of the opposite end of the BART Pittsburg Bay Point station passageway.

The rear of the same train at the Balboa Park station.

Chris Barney writes:

HISTORIC BRIDGE DEMOLISHED

The last identifiable bridge from TM interurban operations in Milwaukee County fell to the wrecking ball November 9, 2017. The 1905 Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction (MLH&T) spandrel-arch bridge over the Root River, near 98th & Layton, met its end after efforts to attain historic status and raising funds to preserve it failed. Robert Roesler, Greenfield Historical Society president, made a concerted effort in this regard and should be commended for it. A We Energies representative even arranged to donate the bridge structure to anyone willing to preserve it, but no one came forward.

The bridge last handled interurban traffic on June 30, 1951, when Speedrail Car 63 made its last inbound run from Hales Corners. Since then, it has weathered 66 years and had deteriorated to the point of being a danger to bicyclists and walkers traversing its span.

I spoke to a dog walker on December 12th who told me he has lived in the area his entire life and remembers when the Brookdale Bridge, which crossed Root River Parkway, was still standing. He lamented the demolition of the Root River span. “It reminded me of a simpler time when things were different – and better.”

February 9, 2017. (Chris Barney Photo)

December 12, 2017. (Chris Barney Photo)

Recent Finds

Here are a couple of our recent acquisitions, two classic views from the Philadelphia & Western, today’s SEPTA “Red Arrow” Norristown High-Speed Line:

Philadelphia & Western “Strafford” car 170, coming into a station circa 1938. Kenneth Achtert adds, “The photo of Philadelphia & Western 170 is arriving at Villanova station, outbound. This is the last station before the split where the Norristown line diverged from the Strafford line. The small platform between the two tracks was used to allow passengers from an inbound Norristown car to transfer directly to an outbound Strafford car without having to go up and over the overpass shown. This would also work from an inbound Strafford car to an outbound Norristown car. I don’t know how many passengers actually made such a trip, but I do remember seeing such transfers made.” The last train ran on the Strafford Branch on March 23, 1956.

Philadelphia & Western “Bullet” car 200 at Conshohocken Road on October 12, 1938, “showing line country and streamlined car stopping at station.”

W. C. Fields Filming Locations

John Bengston has a great blog, where he writes in great detail about the filming locations used in classic silent films by comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton.

We recently suggested he might look into the locations used in the chase sequence during the 1941 W. C. Fields film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. He took the ball and ran with it, and his findings will feature in two posts.

You can read the first installment here.

Here are a few screenshots of our own from that film, which show the Pacific Electric:

During the chase sequence of the picture, Fields’ car passes by a new Pacific Electric double-end PCC car. Filming took place in July and August 1941. PE put the first of 30 such PCCs in service the previous November.

The brand-new Hollywood Freeway shows up in the movie. This is the portion (Cahuenga Pass) where the Pacific Electric ran in the expressway median from 1940 to 1952.

Another section of the Pacific Electric visible in the film.

We end this post on a hopeful note for 2018. Work on the Milwaukee streetcar project, now called “The Hop,” is ahead of schedule,and the first phase of the line is scheduled to open by year’s end:

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On the Cover: Car 1747 was built between 1885 and 1893 by the Chicago City Railway, which operated lines on the South Side starting in April 1859. This is a single-truck (one set of wheels) open electric car; most likely a cable car, retrofitted with a trolley and traction motor. The man at right is conductor William Stevely Atchison (1861-1921), and this image came from his granddaughter. (Courtesy of Debbie Becker.)

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Reader Showcase, 12-11-17

December 11, 2017December 13, 2017David Sadowski 10 Comments

Here’s a mystery photo, showing a Birney car (#512) being worked on, signed for Fruitridge Avenue. My guess is this may be the Terre Haute Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company in Indiana. If so, Don’s Rail Photos says that Birneys 490 thru 514 were “built by American Car Co in December 1919, (order) #1228 as THI&E 490 thru 514.” There is a Fruitridge Avenue in Terre Haute. (Kenneth Gear Collection)

Here we are again, just in time for the holiday season, bringing many gifts. Like our last post (Reader Showcase, 11-30-17) we are featuring contributions recently sent in by our readers. These include some rare traction shots.

Again, our thanks go out to Jack Bejna, Kenneth Gear, and Larry Sakar for their great contributions and hard work.

In addition, just to keep a hand in, I have added some of our own recent finds that you may enjoy.

Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks!

-David Sadowski

Kenneth Gear shared some additional photos from the collections of the late William A. Steventon of the Railroad Record Club:

Salt Lake, Garfield and Western 401 was former Salt Lake and Utah 104. It changed hands in 1946, and is seen here in December 1952.

Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway locos 14 and 18.

Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway 130.

Altoona & Logan Valley Railway sweeper 50a in Altoona.

A North Shore Line Electroliner at the Milwaukee terminal.

Chicago Aurora & Elgin freight locos 2001 and 2002.

Jack Bejna writes:

Hi Dave,

I got back to work on my CA&E project and here are some shots of the final order of steel cars. In many cases I have more than one shot of individual cars so if you need any more images I may be able to help. This group of cars completes my coverage of CA&E’s fleet of passenger cars. I’ll move on to the freight motors and other miscellaneous cars that the railroad owned.

In 1941, CA&E ordered 10 new cars (451-460) from the St. Louis Car Company. This final order was not delivered until October 1945, after World War II ended. The new cars were compatible (and could train) with the Pullman and Cincinnati cars, and were used for all types of service. These cars were lighter and included many improvements.

I know our readers appreciate your fine work, and we will be glad to share any and all images you want to share with us. Thanks again.

CA&E 451.

CA&E 452 as new.

CA&E 453 plus one on a CERA inspection trip.

CA&E 454.

CA&E 455.

CA&E 456, eastbound at Lombard.

CA&E 457 and three more cars at Wheaton.

CA&E 457.

(See Comments section) Jack Bejna: “Here’s the image that I started with, as found on one of my searches of the internet. As you can see, I just Photoshopped the end of the car so as to present a nice ¾ view. I never noticed the lettering was unusual and didn’t do any work on it. In future posts, if I change/modify an image I will clearly label it as such!”

CA&E 458.

CA&E 459, eastbound at Wheaton.

CA&E 460 at Collingbourne.

Larry Sakar writes:

TM 978 at San Francisco Muni’s Geneva Yard in September 1983.

I was going thru my Milwaukee streetcar photos and ran across the one and only shot I got of the 978 in San Francisco. I had to climb on to this concrete wall in front of the yard and hold on to the cyclone fence with one hand and snap the picture with the other. The ledge was quite narrow.

Here is some valuable background for the Los Angeles streetcar and Pacific Electric Railway material. (Editor’s Note: See our previous post Reader Showcase, 11-30-17.

The Los Angeles Railway company operated a large network of streetcar Ines covering every part of Los Angeles. Los Angeles’ streetcar system was a cable railway in its early beginnings, which accounts for the fact that it was narrow gauge for its entire existence. On a number of streets in downtown LA, both the Pacific Electric and LARY operated on the same tracks. In those instances, there were three versus the standard two rails. Both lines shared the outer rail, but LA Railway cars had their own second rail “farther in”.

By the turnoff the 20th Century, the LA system was acquired by the great Henry Huntington. Huntington was the nephew of Collis P. Huntington, one of the big four involved in the creation of the transcontinental railway along with other eventual luminaries like Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Theodore Judah. Huntington headed the Central Pacific RR which ultimately became the Southern Pacific RR. The Pacific Electric RR was a wholly owned subsidiary of the SP, as were the Interurban Electric RR and Northwestern Pacific RR in the San Francisco Bay area. Henry Huntington transformed the former cable railway into the magnificent Los Angeles Railways Co. He was also the President and CEO of the Pacific Electric Railway, often referred to as “the interurban that helped build southern California.”

As was the case in so many cities, the rise of the private automobile began to take a toll on the streetcar lines, until the outbreak of WWII on December 7, 1941. Every available car was pressed into service. By the war’s end in 1945, the LA streetcar system was in need of renovation. Although both LARY and PE purchased new PCC cars, they could not overcome the post war turn towards freeways. PE’s right-of-way was beset with numerous additional grade crossings thus making the cars slower than competing automobiles and buses. By 1950 the LA Freeway system was knocking at PE’s door. there was little doubt of the eventual outcome. It remained only a matter of when PE would finally be killed off by the highway interests and one other well known menace, National City Lines.

First to succumb to the rail-destroying conglomerate (NCL) was LARY sold by Henry Huntington’s heirs in 1945. The company was renamed Los Angeles Transit Lines and equipment wore the well-known NCL “fruit salad” colors of yellow, green and white. Remarkably the LA system outlasted both Chicago and Milwaukee, abandoning the final five streetcar lines in March 1963. Some of the older equipment, like the sow bellies and Huntington Standard streetcars, were acquired by museums and one was “preserved” at the Travel Town Museum in LA’s Griffith Park. Several LARY PCCs also went to the Orange Empire Trolley Museum in Perris, CA. The remaining and newest PCCs were sold to Cairo, Egypt in 1963.

PE fared no better. Interurban lines on each of the four operating districts, as PE called them, (designated by direction) were abandoned even before the company was sold to bus operator Metropolitan Coach lines in 1953. Supposedly, MCL owner Jesse Haugh, a former officer with Pacific City lines (an NCL company), nearly had a heart attack when he saw the MCL emblem on the PE Interurban cars.

In 1958, both LATL and PE became part of the newly created Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. But the MTA was, in reality, nothing more than a continuation of the pro-bus MCL/LATL managements. The two-tone green colors of the MTA were the colors of Metropolitan Coach Lines. The last PE line (to Long Beach) went to its grave in April 1961.

As stated previously, streetcar service under the MTA continued until March of 1963. Some of PE’s older 1200-series interurbans and all 20 of the Pullman built PCCs were sold to the General Urguiza Railway in 1959. Four years of storage in the damp, abandoned Hollywood subway brought an early end to their second lives in Argentina.

But the worst insult to transit came next. In 1963, the LAMTA became the SCRTD, Southern California Rapid Transit District. Never has a bus system been so misnamed. There was absolutely nothing “rapid transit” about it!

But when all hoped for California to wake up and return to its past, a transit revolution took place down the California Coast. A brand new light rail line was opened in San Diego in 1980. Known as the San Diego Trolley, it would start a transit revolution that rocked California. True, BART started up in the San Francisco Bay area in 1972, but San Francisco never lost touch with the streetcar the way LA did.

By 1990, LA was beginning to rise out of the dense smog that blanketed the area on a daily basis. It was then that the newly formed Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Commission opened its first light rail line, the Blue Line running between downtown LA and Long Beach via the right of way once used by the PE red cars. The line begins in a subway that one connects with via the LA METRO Red Line subway from LAUPT, Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (Amtrak and Metrolink Commuter Rail).

Since then, two additional former PE lines to Pasadena and Santa Monica have been rebuilt and placed in service. Diesel commuter rail service, operated by Metrolink, serves other points once served by PE such as Glendale and Burbank. The service extends all the way up the California Coast to San Luis Obispo and south to Oceanside. Here, one can take the frequent trains on Amtrak’s San Diego Surfliner route or the commuter train from Oceanside to San Diego known as the Coaster. The Coaster operates equipment that resembles Toronto’s GO Transit system. Perhaps they are the same type of cars. Somebody familiar with both systems will undoubtedly know.

I went into my timetables and documents collection and found the 1983 San Francisco Historic Streetcar Festival brochure which pictured the cars that were going to operate. You’ll see that TM 978 was one of them. I had to scan it in part and then move it slightly to get the rest of it scanned as it was too long for my screen. I found some interesting things in my timetables and transfers that you are welcome to post if you wish.

Thanks!

San Francisco MUNI Part 3 by Larry Sakar

(Editor’s note: Parts 1 and 2 appeared in our last post, referenced above.)

SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL RAILWAY STREETCAR LINES

The San Francisco Municipal Railway operates 8 streetcar lines. Although that may seem like a substantial number of streetcar lines, it is a fraction of the streetcar lines that once operated in the city by the Golden Gate. The 8 lines serve nearly every part of San Francisco. Within the last few years MUNI was reorganized into the SFMTA –San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency. The Market Street Railway which owns the historic streetcars is not a part of MUNI and receives no transit funding.

The Municipal Railway or MUNI for short uses letters rather than route numbers to identify the streetcar lines. Of course with the exception of the F-Line all of the other routes used modern Light Rail Vehicles with brand new cars now arriving and undergoing testing. The 8 lines are as follows:

E-Embarcadero (south of Market to Cal Train station)
F-Market St. & Wharves
J-Church St.
K-Ingleside
L-Taraval
M-Ocean View
N-Judah
T-Third St.

All trains entering the “downtown” area operate in the Market Street subway (with the exception of the E, F & T lines) to the end of the MUNI subway at Embarcadero station. The Market Street subway is a two-level tube. MUNI streetcars operate on the upper level with BART trains running in the lower tube. The MUNI subway ends at Embarcadero station but BART continues across the bay in a subway laid on the floor of the bay. The tube runs relatively close to the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge.

In the opposite direction BART turns off toward Daly City and eventually Milbrae and the line to San Francisco International Airport. However, they are still in close proximity at the BART Balboa Park station which is near the Curtis Green Light Rail facility. Let’s take a ride on MUNI:

Before the Market St. subway was built, streetcars operated down the center of Market St. from 1st to Duboce, where they turned off and entered the Twin Peaks tunnel. It is one of two streetcar tunnels, the other being the Sunset tunnel.

THE PHOTOS

1-3. I took the first three photos in late December 1973. If it looks like the car is running the wrong way that’s because it is. Long before passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, protestors decided to call attention to their plight by blocking the tracks on Market Street. PCCs put up their rear poles and ran the wrong way back down Market Street. At least two of the cars seen here were the 1006 thru 1015, which were double ended cars. Note the differing paint schemes between the PCCs.

4. We have operated thru the Twin Peaks tunnel and have arrived at West Portal station. This was the point where the various routes diverged and remains so today. The station was completely rebuilt when the LRVs took over from the PCCs and no longer looks like this.

5. This is the interior of one of the double ended PCCs.

6-7: By 1983 when I took these next two pictures the PCCs had been replaced by new Boeing-Vertol LRVs. The Boeing cars had many problems. When the new F-Market surface line opened in 1995, commuters flocked to the surface cars to avoid the delays caused by malfunctioning Boeing cars in the subway.

8. An interior view of one of the Boeing LRVs, which were articulated. Unlike TMER&L, who assigned numbers to each car of their articulated streetcars and interurbans, MUNI LRVs carried the same car number on each end, with one designated as “A” and the other “B”.

9-10: The Boeing LRVs were replaced by new LRVs built by BREDA. I don’t especially like the boxy looking front end of these cars. When I was in San Francisco on August 5th & 6th of this year (2017), MUNI was testing brand new LRVs which will replace the BREDA cars.

11-13: Three interior views of the BREDA LRVs. Like the Boeing cars before them, these cars have a unique but necessary feature. While operating thru the Market Street subway, steps are not needed as the floors are at platform height. As the cars depart West Portal station a warning bell goes off and a red light begins to flash. The floor then descends to reveal the steps needed to enter the cars from the city streets over which they operate. The door in the rear car has permitted fare cheaters to escape paying a fare. I saw school kids at various stops watch for that door to open. One would then jump in, thus blocking it from closing, while his cohorts scrambled aboard without paying a fare. The motorman was probably well aware of it, but knew better than to challenge the cheaters and risk potential assault. It surprises me that MUNI does not assign undercover personnel to catch these brats in the act.

14-17: This is the Curtis Green Light Rail Center near Balboa Park.

18. A BREDA two-car train lays over in front of the old Geneva car house. Look between the UPS truck and the train, and you’ll see that the old car house is fenced off. The building suffered extensive damage in the 1989 earthquake. MUNI plans to restore it when funding permits. The M-Ocean View, K-Ingleside and J-Church light rail lines all meet here.

19-22: Without question is MUNI’s most scenic streetcar line is the J-Church. A portion of the line operates on private right-of-way along the western edge of Mission Dolores park providing a spectacular view of San Francisco.

Recent Finds

Postwar PCC 4300, heading northbound on Route 42 (which was an offshoot of the Halsted line), has just passed under the New York Central on its way towards Clark and Illinois Streets. That’s a Rock Island train passing by, with a Railway Express car.

Four CTA prewar PCCs, led by 7033, are lined up on Cottage Grove at 115th in the early 1950s.

This one is probably late 1960s, as buildings around the funicular have already been cleared away as part of the redevelopment of the Bunker Hill area.

This view of the Angel’s Flight Railway looks more like the early 1950s.

Angel’s Flight in the mid-1960s.

Don’s Rail Photos says, “707 was built by Alco-General Electric in June 1931, #68270, 11193, as NYC 1242, Class R-2. It was renumbered 342 in August 1936. In July 1967 it was rebuilt as CSS&SB 707. It was scrapped in April 1976.” Here, we see it prior to the 1967 rebuilding.

South Shore Line 108 in Michigan City.

South Shore Line 111 in Michigan City.

South Shore Line 211.

South Shore Line 111 in the mid-1960s. Not sure if this is in Michigan City or South Bend.

To me, this looks like the CTA DesPlaines Avenue terminal as it appeared on April 4, 1959. Work was underway to both reconfigure the terminal and build the adjacent Congress expressway. We are looking east.

North Shore Line 714 on January 20, 1963, the last full day of service before abandonment. 714 is now at the Illinois Railway Museum.

North Shore Line cars 715 and 748 at the Milwaukee terminal on January 20, 1963. 715 is now preserved at the Fox River Trolley Museum.

CTA PCC 7215 on July 9, 1957. Notice the large dent on the front of the car. In our previous post One Good Turn (January 20, 2017), we ran another picture of this car taken on August 21, 1956 showing the same dent. Chances are, CTA chose not to repair this, as streetcar service was being phased out. This car was retired about two weeks before the Wentworth line was converted to bus on June 21, 1958.

CTA PCC 7184 is southbound on Clark Street on July 9, 1957. I realize that some people might not like this photo, since it is not perfect and part of the streetcar is blocked by a moving vehicle. But such pictures do give you a sense that these were vehicles in motion.

This view of two Garfield Park “L” trains is somewhere west of the Loop and was taken on April 13, 1957.

Indiana Railroad 375, probably on a 1938-40 fantrip. Don’s Rail Photos: “375 was built by St Louis Car Co in 1926 as Indiana Service Corp 375. It was ass1gned to IRR as 375 in 1932 and rebuilt as a RPO-combine in 1935. It was sold to Chicago South Shore & South Bend in 1941 as 503 and used as a straight baggage car. It was rebuilt in 1952 with windows removed and doors changed.”

From the picture, it’s hard to tell, but this is either Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed car 35 or 55. If it is 55, that later went to Lehigh Valley Transit and became their car 1030, which is now at the Seashore Trolley Museum. Again, this appears to be a late 1930s fantrip.

Indiana Railroad 375. This car has been preserved as South Shore Line baggage car 503 since 1996 in Scottsburg, Indiana.

Chicago Rapid Transit Door Control on 4000s

As late as 1950, the Chicago Transit Authority, which took over the Chicago Rapid Transit Company in 1947, was still using a very old-fashioned and labor-intensive method of door control on its 4000-series “L” cars, which were built between 1913 and 1924.

CRT had been unable to invest in more modern methods, which had been introduced in New York in the early 1920s, due to its lack of capital. Ironically, such an investment in multiple-unit door control (with a starting signal supplied to the motorman) would have saved CRT a great deal in labor costs.

If you’ve ever wondered how the old system worked, here is a detailed explanation from a rare 1950 CTA training brochure. Conductors rode outside between cars, even on some of the newer post-World War II rapid transit cars, before the conductor’s position was moved to a greater place of comfort and safety inside the new “married pairs” of cars.

This brochure suggests that as of March 1950, all 4000-series rapid transit cars had been made into semi-married pairs. As built, they were all single-car units. The last single car units (the 1-50 series) were built for the CTA in 1960.

Knittin’ Pretty

Here is a real curiosity. Reading this 1954 brochure through, you might at first think it is simply encouraging people to ride the CTA in order to save a few pennies.

However, as the text goes on, it becomes an argument in favor of the CTA’s “PCC Conversion Program,” whereby 570 fairly new postwar PCC streetcars were scrapped, and some of their parts were used to build a like number of 6000-series rapid transit cars.

The cost of a rapid transit car with all new parts is quoted as $50-60k, while St. Louis Car Company offered to build them for just $32,332 each. Thus a savings between $17-27k per car is implied.

After doing some research, I eventually found a CTA document that gives the actual costs incurred. The first 250 curved-door 6000s, with some recycled parts, actually cost the CTA $54,727.64 apiece.

From this, two conclusions can be drawn. First, that the contract between CTA and SLCC allowed for price adjustments that increased costs by more than 67% over the bid price.

Second, that the PCC Conversion Program did not actually save the CTA between $17-27k as was implied in this brochure (and similar figures claimed elsewhere). Since the cost of the previous order for one hundred 6000s with all new parts was $40,904.01, somehow the cost per car actually increased by nearly $14k per unit.

The difference can be explained in how the program worked. Over time, CTA sold 570 PCCs to SLCC for $14k each. This figure is confirmed on page 13 of the 1961 CTA Annual Report. Meanwhile, the cost for each new rapid transit car ordered appears to have increased by approximately the same amount, at least for the first 250 cars ordered under this arrangement.

The cost per car for subsequent rapid transit car orders, in general, shows a gradual increase. 120 cars purchased in 1957 had a cost of $59,368.84 per car, or $4,600 higher than the first 250.

Perhaps part of this increase is due to inflation, but it is likely that the age and condition of the parts being recycled was another factor.

In light of this, a case can be made that, from a materials standpoint in constructing 570 rapid transit cars, this program did not save any money at all, compared to what it would have cost to build the same number of vehicles with all new parts. In fact, since the recycled parts were not new, chances are the program was a disadvantage, as old parts cannot last as long, or serve as well, compared to new.

The actual goal, it would seem, of the PCC Conversion Program, was to get rid of the PCC streetcars in such a way as to take them off the books without showing a loss compared to their depreciated value. The 570 cars involved were between five and ten years old when scrapped. As we know, there are PCCs that are still being used in regular service by a few transit systems. The newest of these were built 65 years ago.

The CTA had other reasons for wanting to eliminate even the modern PCC streetcars. Curiously, the costs of maintaining track and wire were not cited in any of the various documents I have seen.

On the other hand, the 1951 DeLeuw, Cather consultant’s report recommended that CTA not buy any additional electric vehicles, streetcar or trolley bus, due to the supposed high cost of electricity purchased from Commonwealth Edison. As it turned out, no additional electric vehicles were purchased for the surface system until the recent experiments with battery powered buses.

CTA saved money by eliminating two-man streetcars, through reduced labor costs, but the CTA Board was told in 1954 not to expect any further savings in this regard (after the elimination of red car service). The reasons may be two-fold: in some cases, on the heaviest lines, it was likely advantageous to use two-man PCCs, and some PCCs had been converted to one-man operation, or could be used either way.

The Chicago Transit Authority had an decade-long flirtation with propane buses during the 1950s. Propane was then quite cheap, but the buses so used were severely under-powered and had difficulty maintaining schedules. The service thus provided on the surface system by such buses was of lower quality than the PCC streetcars and may have contributed to continued ridership losses on the surface system in the late 1950s.

One can argue that it might have actually worked to CTA’s advantage to continue operating the PCCs instead of scrapping them.

-David Sadowski

FYI, the above graph shows the costs for various rapid transit car orders placed between 1947 and 1958. A couple things are worth noting. The first four cars were the experimental articulated 5001-5004 units, which were each approximately equivalent in length to two standard “L” cars. This, and their experimental nature, helps explain the relatively high per-unit cost. The 1958 total includes the 50 single car units (#1-50), but does not break down the cost relative to the final 50 married-pair units it is lumped in with.

Railroad Record Club News

Additional tracks have been added to two of our Railroad Record Club CD releases, which are available through our Online Store.

An additional 11:24 has been added to this disc, which now has a running time of 75:41. Source: The Silverton Train (Your Sound of Steam Souvenir #2, 1964).

We recently obtained another handmade Railroad Record Club acetate disc with some new material on it, which has been added to our RRC Steam Rarities CD. One more track from the East Broad Top has been added, and the Illinois Central track has been improved. The new running time for this disc is 76:34.

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Reader Showcase, 11-30-17

November 30, 2017November 30, 2017David Sadowski 6 Comments

Indiana Railroad lightweight high-speed interurban car 71 was built by Pullman in 1931. After passenger service ended in 1941, there were no buyers for this car or the great majority of its brothers, so it was scrapped. Then the war broke out and electric railways were soon using every available car. Sister car 65 is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum, while 55 is saved at Seashore Trolley Museum as Lehigh Valley Transit car 1030.

Today we are featuring contributions recently sent in by our readers. These include some rare traction shots, plus valuable historical information. Due to the length of the latter, we are saving some for future posts.

Our thanks go out to Jack Bejna, Kenneth Gear, Andre Kristopans, and Larry Sakar for their great contributions.

Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks!

-David Sadowski

Author Appearance

Come join us this Saturday starting at 1 pm at Frugal Muse Books in Darien, Illinois. I will discuss my new book Chicago Trolleys (see below), appearing along with other Arcadia authors to discuss our books, give short presentations, and sign copies. The other authors who are also appearing wrote the books Chicago Rink Rats: The Roller Capital in its Heyday, Cycling in Chicago and The Great Chicago Fire. The event is free to all.

When: Saturday, December 2, 1-3pm

Where: Frugal Muse Books, Chestnut Court Shopping Center, 7511 Lemont Road, Darien, IL

Kenneth Gear writes:

I’ve scanned all the Steventon photos that I bought recently. I purchased about 30 photos, some of which were included with my Railroad Record Club Treasure Hunt story (see our post from July 30, 2017), here are the rest.

There are 17 photos of the Indiana Railroad. This was not on purpose, I didn’t realize that I picked so many photos of that one railroad. I must subconsciously be a big fan of that interurban line.

Some of the photos have index cards with caption information typewritten on them and some only have equipment number and location written on the back, some not even that. I scanned the photos and index cards together when I had both. Those without cards have all caption information included in the file name.

Thanks very much. I am sure our readers will enjoy seeing these.

Indiana Railroad 54 in Fort Wayne.

Indiana Railroad 713 in Fort Wayne.

Indiana Railroad 735 in Fort Wayne.

Indiana Railroad 754.

Indiana Railroad 792 in Fort Wayne.

Indiana Railroad 377.

Indiana Railroad 713 in Fort Wayne.

Indiana Railroad 722 in Indianapolis.

Indiana Railroad 726.

Indiana Railroad 763 in Muncie.

Indiana Railroad 785 at Anderson.

Indiana Railroad 787 and 786.

Indiana Railroad 787 as seen from 786.

Indiana Railroad 736 in Fort Wayne.

The view from Indy RR #786.

The view from the roof of Indy RR #787.

Larry Sakar writes:

The Historic Streetcar Festival Cars, San Francisco, September 1983

In 1983 San Francisco Municipal Railway shut down its entire cable car system for a complete rebuilding. To make up for the loss, MUNI started the Historic Market Street Streetcar Festival. Streetcars from around the world were sought, some borrowed from trolley museums across the U.S. The festival operated every summer from 1983 until 1987 when the cable cars returned. Historic streetcars operated between 17th & Castro Sts. and the original Transbay Transit Terminal at 1st and Mission Streets. Occasionally a few cars would operate on one of the 5 regular MUNI streetcar lines.

It was so successful and popular that in 1995 MUNI, in conjunction with the Market Street Railway Group, began the then new F-Market Line which was eventually extended along the Embarcadero all the way to Fisherman’s Wharf. The line has become so popular that cars are almost always completely full by the 7th and Market Street stop.

One of the most popular cars in the Historic Streetcar Festival was Blackpool Boat tram 226 from Blackpool, England. Built by the English Electric Car Co. in 1934, this car was leased for the first year of the festival in 1983. Since then, Market St. Railway has acquired two boat trams #s 228 and 233, which are a permanent part of the historic car fleet.

In this series of pictures, which I took in September of 1983, I start off with a view of boat tram 226 about one block west of the Civic Center stop at 7th and Market Street eastbound.

Next, the car is arriving at the Civic Center stop. These cars are two-man cars and require both a motorman and conductor. The entry/exit door is in the center of the car and must be opened or closed manually.

As we head east toward the Ferry Building and the Trans-Bay Terminal the car, as you can see, is relatively full. The conductor is seated at right (with the black coat and hat). The destination sign just beneath the trolley pole stand reads “F-MARKET”.

Continuing my eastward journey, MUNI car 1 passes us westbound on the left, as a fellow railfan stands to snap a picture.

A few blocks further east I snapped this picture of MUNI car 130 the “Iron Monster” coming west on Market St. This is the intersection of Market & Powel1. To the left of car 130, though not visible in the picture, is the turntable for the Powell/Mason cable car route to either Bay and Taylor or Hyde and Beach Streets, both in Fisherman’s Wharf. Cable car fare is now $7.00 per ride!

As I mentioned these cars are double-ended. These are the operating controls with the controller at left.

In the previous sequence with the boat tram we saw car 130, one of the MUNI cars dubbed “Iron Monsters.” Here it is at the Trans-Bay Terminal streetcar loop again in September 1983. Car l3O was built by the Jewett Car Co. in 1914 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in the Marina district. It served in passenger service until 1958, at which time it had its seats removed and was completely reequipped as a “wrecker.” It was primarily used to tow MUNI PCCs which broke down in service. In 1983 it was repainted into the MINI blue and gold paint scheme specifically created for the second World’s Fair in San Francisco.

The 1939 World’s Fair was held on Treasure Island, which is not quite halfway between San Francisco and Oakland in San Francisco Bay. Passengers looking for a fast and inexpensive way to get to the fair could board brand new Key System articulated trains at the Trans-Bay Terminal and ride to the Treasure Island stop, where stairways led down to the fairgrounds. After the fair closed, Treasure Island was turned into a base for the U.S. Navy.

Market St. Railway acquired a number of these cars. This is Milan (Italy) Transit car 1895. The car was built in 1928 and is of the “Peter Witt design” popular among many U. S. streetcar companies including Chicago.

Melbourne Australia was another foreign contributor of streetcars to the historic fleet. This is car 648 headed east on Market St. passing the San Francisco Emporium. Car 1 appears to be about a block ahead of the Melbourne car, which is unusual as cars did not normally operate that close together.

San Francisco MUNI had several hundred PCCs. Here we see double-ended car 1006 at Market and Duboce. The first 15 of these St. Louis Car Co. streamliners were double-ended while all remaining PCCs were single ended. Cars 1001 through 1005 were dubbed the “Magic Carpet Cars” when introduced. Though resembling PCCs, they were not PCCs as they had a different control system than a PCC. Thus, car 1006 represented the first PCC in San Francisco MUNI’s fleet.

Following the shot of car 10O6 we see a view of the Market and Duboce car storage yard. A Milan car rests on the storage track at left. In the distance to its right is MUNI PCC 1128. In what would be a forerunner of things to come when the new F-Market St. line was opened by MUNI in 1995, 1128 was repainted to its original St. Louis Public Service Co. livery and given the number 7704. It was part of a group of 66 cars sold to MUNI by SLPSCO in 1957. Atop the hill at left is the original San Francisco U.S. Mint, now a museum.

San Francisco Municipal Railway Part 2: The F Line

In 1995, eight years after the final Market Street Historic Streetcar festival, MUNI opened the F-Market Streetcar line. Initially operating between 127th & Castro St. and the streetcar loop in front of the Trans-Bay Transit Terminal at 1st & Mission Sts. the line was an instant hit with both tourists and everyday commuters.

What is it they say about the “best laid plans”? San Francisco and MUNI had planned to eliminate streetcars on Market St. when the new Boeing-Vertol LRVs began running in the new Market Street subway. Unfortunately, the Boeing cars were a total disaster. Just about everything that could go wrong with them did.

Commuters frustrated by service delays on the five streetcar lines serving the subway shifted to the historic streetcars on the surface. The overwhelming popularity of the cars operating on Market St. taught MUNI a valuable lesson, and eventually lead to the creation of the F-Market St. line, ending all plans to remove streetcar tracks from Market St.

In 2000 the line was extended down the Embarcadero to Pier 39 and the Fisherman’s Wharf area, a major tourist attraction. The Trans-Bay Terminal streetcar loop was removed. The Trans-Bay Terminal was razed around 2003 and a new “temporary” terminal was constructed a few blocks away on Folsom St.

Construction of the new Trans-Bay Terminal was to have been completed this year (2017) but all construction was halted in 2016, when owners of a nearby high-end condo development (condos costing around $3 million!) sued the contractor for the terminal development, claiming improper construction and sinking of piles for the structure (which will include a 100-story condo development of its own) has caused the high-end condo building to start sinking. At this writing the lawsuit remains unresolved.

The F-Market & Wharves Line, as it is formally known, operates with PCC cars acquired from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA). All underwent extensive rebuilding at the Brookville Equipment Corp., which still performs all major work on the cars. Each car is painted in the color scheme of a U.S. company that operated PCCs. Thus, you will find a car painted in the Mercury Green, Croydon Cream and Swamp Holly Orange belt rail color scheme worn by CTA PCCs, but no car representing TMER&L in Milwaukee which turned its back on PCCs and streetcars in general in 1936.

The 1000-series articulated cars purchased from St. Louis Car Co. in 1930 were the last streetcars acquired by TM. These were the cars that ended their days in service on Speedrail between 1949 and 1951.

1-2. The Subway Terminal Building is seen on the right side of photo #1 looming up over McArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. Although it retained the name, it had not been the terminal for the Pacific Electric Hollywood Blvd. and Glendale-Burbank lines since June 19, 1955 when new owner, Metropolitan Coach Lines (part of infamous National City Lines) abandoned all remaining service from the subway and substituted buses.

3-5. PCC 1061 is painted for Los Angeles’ Pacific Electric Railway. PCC’s operated on the western district lines out of the Subway Terminal Bldg. to Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Glendale and Burbank. In the first three pictures we see the car stopped for a red light westbound on Market St heading for the end of the line at 17th & Castro Sts. All PCCs operating on the F-Line were built by St. Louis Car Co. In 1948 and 1951. The real PE PCCs were built by Pullman-Standard Car. Co., and did not have standee windows. The color of 1061’s roof is also incorrect. PE’s PCCs had gold colored roofs and one trolley pole in the middle of the car.

The PCCs spent the next 3 years stored in the now abandoned Hollywood Subway before being sold to the General Urguiza electric railway in Argentina in 1959. The three years of sitting idle in the damp subway made them a poor buy and they were withdrawn from service and scrapped after just a few years of service. They were replaced by the ex-Key System bridge railway articulated units.

The Subway itself was never used again, and in 1967 a portion of the tunnel beneath Bunker Hill was dug up and filled in to accommodate the footings for the new Bonaventure Hotel. In recent years, the building was sold to a new developer who is converting all of the former office space into high-end (aka very, very expensive) condominiums. The developer has renamed it the “417 Building” after its address: 417 S. Hill St.

6-7. PCC 1007 is identical to #1006 seen at the end of part 1. It is painted to represent Red Arrow Lines the same Red Arrow that acquired the North Shore Electroliners in 1963. The color scheme is authentic but the cars operating out of 69th St. terminal in Philadelphia were suburban cars but not PCCs though they looked like them.

8. PCC 1056 is painted in the colors of Kansas City Public Service Co. The paint job is virtually identical to the real Kansas City cars but the standee windows are not. No KCPS PCC ever had standee windows, supposedly because the company president did not like them.

9. Car 1059 seen here at 17th & Castro Sts., is in the colors of the Boston Elevated Railway Co. All Muni streetcar stops have platforms as seen here to comply with ADA requirements. The car recently returned from a trip to Brookville Equipment Co. where the orange color was lightened to more closely conform to the real cars.

10. As the car leaves the 17th & Castro terminus it turns right onto Castro Street. It will turn right again at the next corner to begin its eastbound trip down Market Street to Fisherman’s Wharf.

Jack Bejna writes:

Hi Dave,

Congratulations on your 200th post on Thanksgiving weekend. I’m happy I discovered your site and look forward to many more interesting posts. I got back to work on my CA&E project and here are some shots of the second group of steel cars. In many cases I have more than one shot of individual cars so if you need any more images I may be able to help.

In 1927 CA&E ordered 15 new cars (420-434) from Cincinnati Car Company. This second purchase of steel cars was, like the first order of Pullman cars, equipped with Tomlinson couplers and was not capable of training with any of the wood cars in the fleet. The new cars were used for all types of service.

Cars 435 and 436 were rebuilt from older wooden cars for buffet/parlor car service, and were re-numbered 600-601. They were steel sheathed and had Tomlinson couplers installed in order to train with the Pullman and Cincinnati cars. In 1929 they were rebuilt again to straight coaches and were used until they were retired in 1954.

We are very appreciative of all the hard work done by Jack Bejna in making these old images look better than ever using his Photoshop skills. Thanks for sharing them.

420 on the Elgin Branch in Wheaton.

421 as delivered.

422.

423 on the Garfield Park “L”.

424.

425 at the Aurora Terminal.

426 at the Wheaton Shops.

427 at the Elgin Terminal.

428 eastbound at Laramie.

429 at Wheaton.

430 at the Aurora Terminal.

431 in Maywood.

432.

433 in Wheaton.

434.

435 at the company shops in 1929.

436 at the company shops in 1929.

Kenneth Gear writes:

I just made another eBay purchase of three RRC records. I only bought them because there is paperwork included. My efforts to collect RRC paperwork have sort of stalled. I’ve explored all avenues that I know of without any recent success. I know there may not be much out there to get. I have myself tossed away most of the RRC papers that came with my records back in the 1970s’ and ’80s, so I can’t fault others for doing likewise.

PS- By looking at the photos I took of Steventon’s tapes I was able to fill-in a few more blanks in the list of pre-1958 cut at home discs. I thought you might want to add them to your list:

12. Illinois Terminal

13. Illinois Central

19. Senate Subway

21. Rochester Subway

23. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy

25. Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto

26 Virginian

28. Queensboro Bridge

29. Wabash

30. Third Avenue Elevated

31. St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie

32. Louisville & Nashville

34. St Elizabeth’s Hospital (A hospital in Washington DC that used a 0-4-0T to move coal from the B&O to their property. I would really like to be able to hear this one.)

37. Independent Subway

Note that at present, we do not have copies of these recordings.

Ken and I are always on the lookout for Railroad Record Club items that we do not have. That includes newsletters, inserts, liner notes and any other paperwork that we do not already have. If you think you may have something new to contribute, please let us know, thanks.

-David Sadowski

A Sign of the Times

This Chicago rapid transit sign recently sold on eBay for $400 (and not to me, that’s way out of my league). We asked historian Andre Kristopans about it. He thinks it came from the northernmost exit in the State Street Subway at platform level, and dates to 1943-58. The later date is when the subway-to-“L” transfer point was moved to State/Van Buren.

The use of some sort of pressed material (not sure if you would call this Masonite) instead of metal may mean this sign is from World War II, and could have been original to the subway, which opened in 1943.

Andre Kristopans writes:

Don’t know if I ever sent you this one. 4000 L car retirements.

If you did, I neglected to post them. Here they are, thanks!

4001 07/21/64 8924 4023 03/20/64 8246 4044:2 07/03/64 8924
4002 07/03/64 8924 4024 07/03/64 8924 4045 01/22/64 8246
4003 06/13/58 10108R 4025 03/20/64 8246 4046 07/21/64 8924
4004 03/05/61 11162R 4026 07/27/62 8246 4047 07/03/64 8924
4005 10/12/55 17406 4456 4027 04/12/63 8246 4048 03/20/64 8246
4006 07/21/64 8924 4028 04/20/62 8147 4049 07/21/64 8924
4007 09/30/58 10108R 4029 04/20/62 8147 4050 01/10/64 8246
4008 07/21/64 8924 4030 03/20/64 8246 4051 11/15/63 8246
4009 01/22/64 8246 4031 03/20/64 8246 4052 01/10/64 8246
4010 01/22/64 8246 4032 03/03/61 11162R 4053 11/15/63 8246
4011 10/08/55 17387R 4033 03/03/61 11162R 4054 01/10/64 8246
4012 01/22/64 8246 4034 07/03/64 8924 4055 11/15/63 8246
4013 04/20/62 8246 4035 07/03/64 8924 4056 01/22/64 8246
4014 01/22/64 8246 4036 03/20/64 8246 4057 01/22/64 8246
4015 01/10/64 8246 4037 04/12/63 8246 4058 03/20/64 8246
4016 03/20/64 8246 4038 03/20/64 8246 4059 07/03/64 8924
4017 01/22/64 8246 4039 03/03/61 11162R 4060 01/10/64 8246
4018 03/20/64 8246 4040 05/11/62 8246 4061 11/15/63 8246
4019 03/20/64 8246 4041 03/20/64 8246 4062 11/15/63 8246
4020 07/21/64 8924 4042 07/21/64 8924 4063 05/19/64 8924
4021 07/21/64 8924 4043 09/29/62 8246 shed 4064 01/10/64 8246
4022 07/21/64 8924 4044 07/17/53 15298R 4065 06/13/58 10108R
4066 07/08/54 to 4044:2

4067 09/11/64 8924 4088 08/21/64 8924 4109 08/07/64 8924
4068 09/11/64 8924 4089 08/21/64 8924 4110 08/07/64 8924
4069 09/11/64 8924 4090 09/11/64 8924 4111 10/08/55 17387R
4070 08/21/64 8924 4091 08/07/64 8924 4112 04/05/63 8506
4071 03/19/65 8924 4092 08/07/64 8924 4113 06/16/65 8924
4072 05/07/65 8924 4093 09/11/64 8924 4114 07/20/64 8924
4073 07/31/64 8924 4094 09/11/64 8924 4115 08/07/64 8924
4074 07/31/64 8924 4095 03/20/64 8750 4116 05/07/65 8924
4075 07/31/64 8924 4096 08/07/64 8924 4117 04/20/62 8351
4076 08/07/64 8924 4097 08/07/64 8924 4118 08/21/64 8924
4077 07/31/64 8924 4098 09/11/64 8924 4119 09/11/64 8924
4078 08/07/64 8924 4099 09/11/64 8924 4120 04/05/63 8506
4079 08/07/64 8924 4100 07/20/64 8924 4121 09/11/64 8924
4080 05/07/65 8924 4101 05/07/65 8924 4122 09/11/64 8924
4081 07/03/64 8924 4102 08/07/64 8924 4123 09/11/64 8924
4082 05/07/65 8924 4103 06/16/65 8924 4124 05/19/64 8924
4083 10/30/64 8924 shed 4104 04/20/62 8351 4125 03/19/65 8924
4084 12/12/61 11262R S346 4105 08/07/64 8924 4126 03/19/65 8924
4085 08/07/64 8924 4106 06/16/65 8924 4127 08/07/64 8924
4086 06/16/65 8924 4107 06/27/58 10206R 4128 08/07/64 8924
4087 08/21/64 8924 4108 05/19/64 8924

4129 09/25/59 10624R 4137 08/07/64 8924 4145 04/30/72 8588E
4130 07/16/65 8924 4138 12/24/65 8695A S359 4146 03/31/72 8588E
4131 07/20/64 8924 4139 04/02/65 8924 4147 07/16/65 8924
4132 07/20/64 8924 4140 11/09/64 8924 4148 07/16/65 8924
4133 12/11/64 8924 4141 06/18/65 8924 4149 11/09/64 8924
4134 04/02/65 8924 4142 06/18/65 8924 4150 04/02/65 8924
4135 08/07/64 8924 4143 10/16/64 8924 4151 09/25/64 8924
4136 08/07/64 8924 4144 10/16/64 8924 4152 09/25/64 8924
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4153 05/30/72 8588E 4186 10/09/64 8924 4219 10/09/64 8924
4154 05/30/72 8588E 4187 04/30/72 8588E 4220 10/09/64 8924
4155 09/18/64 8924 4188 04/30/72 8588E 4221 05/07/65 8924
4156 09/18/64 8924 4189 04/30/65 8924 4222 05/07/65 8924
4157 06/16/65 8924 4190 05/07/65 8924 4223 10/09/64 8924
4158 06/16/65 8924 4191 10/02/64 8924 4224 10/09/64 8924
4159 06/22/65 8924 4192 10/02/64 8924 4225 05/07/65 8924
4160 05/30/72 8588E 4193 05/07/65 8924 4226 05/07/65 8924
4161 05/30/72 8588ER 4194 05/07/65 8924 4227 03/19/65 8924
4162 12/11/64 8924 4195 09/25/64 8924 4228 10/30/64 8924
4163 05/07/65 8924 4196 09/25/64 8924 4229 07/16/65 8924
4164 12/11/64 8924 4197 06/16/65 8924 4230 08/30/72 8588E
4165 10/02/64 8924 4198 05/19/64 8924 4231 06/16/65 8924
4166 10/02/64 8924 4199 07/16/65 8924 4232 06/16/65 8924
4167 06/18/65 8924 4200 07/16/65 8924 4233 07/16/65 8924
4168 06/18/65 8924 4201 07/16/65 8924 4234 07/16/65 8924
4169 10/16/64 8924 4202 07/16/65 8924 4235 06/22/65 8924
4170 10/16/64 8924 4203 10/16/64 8924 4236 06/22/65 8924
4171 04/30/65 8924 4204 06/22/65 8924 4237 11/09/64 8924
4172 04/30/65 8924 4205 10/09/64 8924 4238 11/09/64 8924
4173 06/16/65 8924 4206 10/09/64 8924 4239 07/03/64 8924
4174 06/16/65 8924 4207 05/30/72 8588E 4240 07/16/65 8924
4175 12/24/65 8695A S360 4208 05/30/72 8588E 4241 07/03/64 8924
4176 04/02/65 8924 4209 10/30/64 8924 4242 04/30/65 8924
4177 06/18/65 8924 4210 10/30/64 8924 4243 05/30/72 8588E
4178 06/18/65 8924 4211 09/18/64 8924 4244 07/16/65 8924
4179 11/09/64 8924 4212 09/18/64 8924 4245 10/30/64 8924
4180 11/09/64 8924 4213 09/25/64 8924 4246 10/30/64 8924
4181 10/30/64 8924 4214 09/25/64 8924 4247 12/11/64 8924
4182 10/30/64 8924 4215 03/31/72 8588E 4248 04/30/72 8588E
4183 09/18/64 8924 4216 03/31/72 8588E 4249 12/11/64 8924
4184 09/18/64 8924 4217 06/16/65 8924 4250 04/05/63 8506
4185 10/09/64 8924 4218 06/16/65 8924
4456 03/20/64 8750

4251 8254G 12/01/75 Pielet
4252 8254G 12/01/75 Pielet
4253 8630G 03/17/76 to work
4254 8254G 11/20/75 Pielet
4255 8780G 11/78 Ill Ry Mus
4256 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
4257 8254G 04/01/75 MI Tran Mus
4258 8254G 02/11/75 E Troy Mus
4259 8453G 12/74 to shed
4260 8254G 04/07/76 Pielet
4261 8254G 01/23/76 Pielet
4262 8254G 01/23/76 Pielet
4263 8254G 08/18/76 Pielet
4264 8254G 06/04/76 Pielet
4265 8254G 06/14/76 Pielet
4266 8254G 06/14/76 Pielet
4267 8254G 08/25/75 Waterfrnt Elec
4268 8453G 12/06/74 to shed
4269 8453G 12/06/74 to shed
4270 8254G 08/16/76 Pielet
4271 relic
4272 relic
4273 8453G 12/74 to shed
4274 8254G 08/16/76 Pielet
4275 8453G 12/74 to shed
4276 8453G 12/74 to shed
4277 8254G 11/20/75 Pielet
4278 8254G 11/20/75 Pielet
4279 8728G 03/78 to work
4280 8254G 08/11/75 Branford Elec
4281 8254G 03/02/76 Pielet
4282 8254G 04/07/76 Pielet
4283 8254G 04/01/75 MI Trol Mus
4284 8254G 10/02/75 Whse Point
4285 8254G 01/23/76 Pielet
4286 8254G 01/23/76 Pielet
4287 8254G 12/01/75 Pielet
4288 8630G 03/17/76 to work
4289 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
4290 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
4291 8453G 12/74 to shed
4292 8453G 12/74 to shed
4293 8254G 08/16/76 IMOTAC
4294 8254G 06/14/76 Tol & IN His Soc
4295 8254G 08/16/76 OH Ry Mus
4296 8254G 06/14/76 Trolvlle USA
4297 8038G 03/31/72 scr
4298 8038G 08/01/72 scr
4299 8038G 11/30/71 scr
4300 8038G 11/30/71 scr
4301 8038G 03/31/72 scr
4302 8695A 12/02/65 to S351
4303 8583F 08/31/71 scr
4304 8583F 08/31/71 scr
4305 8038G 04/30/72 scr

4306 8038G 04/30/72 scr
4307 8583F 08/31/71 scr
4308 8583F 08/31/71 scr
4309 8038G 04/14/72 scr
4310 8173G 10/30/72 scr
4311 8583F 05/31/72 scr
4312 8583F 06/30/72 scr
4313 8173G 03/76 Pielet
4314 8695A 12/20/65 to S353
4315 8695A 12/02/65 to S355
4316 8695A 12/02/65 to S356
4317 8695A 12/24/65 to S349
4318 8695A 12/02/65 to S350
4319 8197G 08/73 KY Ry Mus
4320 8197G 04/14/75 Pielet
4321 8780G 10/79 IMOTAC
4322 8780G 10/79 NARHA
4323 8390A 02/26/65 to S347
4324 8390A 02/26/65 to S348
4325 8780G 05/78 MN Tranp Mus
4326 8780G 10/79 IMOTAC
4327 8695A 12/02/65 to S352
4328 8038G 03/21/72 scr
4329 8583F 10/29/71 scr
4330 8538F 10/29/71 scr
4331 8038G 02/29/72 scr
4332 8038G 02/29/72 scr
4333 8583F 08/31/71 scr
4334 8583F 08/31/71 scr
4335 8038G 06/30/72 scr
4336 8173G 10/30/72 scr
4337 8038G 02/01/72 scr
4338 8038G 02/01/72 scr
4339 8038G 04/14/72 scr
4340 8038G 04/14/72 scr
4341 8583F 08/31/71 scr (office Despl)
4342 8583F 08/31/71 scr (office Despl)
4343 8583F 04/30/72 scr
4344 8583F 04/30/72 scr
4345 8583F 07/31/71 scr
4346 8583F 07/31/71 scr
4347 8583F 04/30/72 scr
4348 8583F 06/30/72 scr
4349 8583F 03/17/72 scr
4350 8583F 09/30/71 scr (office Despl)
4351 8583F 09/30/71 scr
4352 8583F 09/30/71 scr
4353 8038G 08/04/72 scr
4354 8038G 08/04/72 scr
4355 8583F 08/31/71 scr (office Despl)
4356 8583F 08/04/72 scr
4357 8173G 06/30/74 to shed
4358 8173G 12/09/75 to S1
4359 8583F 02/29/72 scr
4360 8583F 02/29/72 scr

4361 8583F 02/29/72 scr
4362 8583F 02/29/72 scr
4363 10482 03/26/59 scr
4364 8583F 11/30/71 scr
4365 8583F 06/30/72 scr
4366 8583F 06/30/72 scr
4367 8583F 02/29/72 scr
4368 8583F 02/29/72 scr
4369 8583F 04/30/72 scr
4370 8583F 04/30/72 scr
4371 8658B 11/15/68 to S364
4372 8542A 12/13/66 scr (F8/27/65)
4373 8583F 08/31/71 scr (office Despl)
4374 8583F 02/29/72 scr
4375 8583F 03/21/72 scr
4376 8583F 03/21/72 scr
4377 8173G 08/30/72 scr
4378 8173G 08/30/72 scr
4379 8173G 08/30/72 scr
4380 8173G 08/30/72 scr
4381 8695A 12/20/65 to S354
4382 8173G 11/13/72 scr
4383 8583F 05/31/72 scr
4384 8583F 05/31/72 scr
4385 8173G 11/13/72 scr
4386 8101G 02/29/72 to S368
4387 8173G 12/09/75 to work
4388 8173G 12/09/75 to work
4389 8101G 03/31/72 to S372
4390 8101G 02/18/72 to S369
4391 8173G 11/13/72 scr
4392 8173G 11/13/72 scr
4393 8101G 02/18/72 to S370
4394 8173G 12/27/75 Pielet
4395 8173G 12/27/75 Pielet
4396 8173G 11/13/72 scr
4397 8101G 02/18/72 to S371
4398 8173G 11/20/75 Pielet
4399 8038G 09/29/72 scr
4400 8173G 11/13/72 scr
4401 8173G 09/30/72 scr
4402 8173G 09/30/72 scr
4403 8254G 03/02/76 Pielet
4404 8254G 04/07/76 Pielet
4405 8173G 12/01/75 Pielet
4406 8173G 04/07/76 Pielet
4407 8453G 12/74 to shed
4408 8453G 12/74 to shed
4409 8780G 05/79 Whse Point
4410 8254G 03/20/75 IL Ry Mus
4411 8038G 02/18/72 to S373
4412 8038G 03/31/72 IL Ry Mus
4413 8254G 08/18/76 Pielet
4414 8254G 08/18/76 Pielet
4415 8254G 06/14/76 Pielet

4416 8254G 06/14/76 Pielet
4417 8583F 07/31/71 scr
4418 8583F 07/31/71 scr
4419 8254G 12/01/75 Pielet
4420 8254G 02/11/75 E Troy Mus
4421 8038G 02/01/72 scr
4422 8038G 02/01/72 scr
4423 8038G 02/18/72 to S374
4424 8038G 02/29/72 scr
4425 8038G 03/28/72 scr
4426 8038G 03/28/72 scr
4427 8173G 08/30/72 scr
4428 8173G 08/30/7272 scr
4429 8695A 12/02/65 to S357
4430 8695A 12/24/65 to S358
4431 8038G 03/17/72 scr
4432 8038G 03/21/72 scr
4433 8038G 03/31/72 scr
4434 8038G 02/29/72 scr
4435 8583F 11/30/71 scr
4436 8254G 10/02/75 Whse Pt
4437 8727C 11/11/69 to S365
4438 8727C 11/11/69 to S366
4439 8254G 04/01/75 MI Trol Mus
4440 8453G 12/74 to shed
4441 8254G 02/11/75 OH Ry Mus
4442 8254G 04/01/75 MI Trol Mus
4443 8254G 04/29/76 Pielet
4444 8254G 04/01/75 Pielet
4445 8254G 04/29/76 Pielet
4446 8254G 04/07/76 Pielet
4447 8453G 12/74 to shed
4448 8254G 04/29/76 Pielet
4449 8254G 02/11/75 OH Ry Mus
4450 8254G 04/01/75 MI Trol Mus
4451 8254G 02/11/75 RELIC
4452 8453G 12/74 to shed
4453 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
4454 8254G 11/74 IMOTAC
4455 8254G 03/02/76 Pielet

W4253 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
W4279 8780G 11/78 Pittsbgh Lndmarks
W4288 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
W4387 8780G /79 MN Transp Mus
W4388 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC

S347 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
S348 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
S349 8210G 11/75 Pielet
S350 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus
S351 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus
S352 8542G 06/76 scr
S353 8780G 11/78 NARHA
S354 8780G 11/78 IMOTAC

S355 8780G 11/78 IMOTAC
S356 8780G 11/78 NARHA
S357 8780G 10/79 IMOTAC
S358 8780G 11/78 NARHA

S364 8254G 04/76 Pielet
S365 8780G 11/78 NARHA
S366 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus

S368 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus
S369 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
S370 8780G 10/79 NARHA
S371 8780G 07/79 NARHA
S372 8780G 07/79 NARHA
S373 8780G 12/78 IL Ry Mus
S374 8780G 07/79 NARHA

S1 scrapped

4000’s by AFR:

4363 10482 03/59 scr

4323 8390A 02/65 to S-347
4324 8390A 02/65 to S-348

4372 8542A 11/66 scr (F8/27/65)

4302 8695A 12/65 to S-351
4314 8695A 12/65 to S-353
4315 8695A 12/65 to S-355
4316 8695A 12/65 to S-356
4317 8695A 12/65 to S-349
4318 8695A 12/65 to S-350
4327 8695A 12/65 to S-352
4381 8695A 12/65 to S-354
4429 8695A 12/65 to S-357
4430 8695A 12/65 to S-358

4371 8658B 11/68 to S-364

4437 8727C 11/69 to S-365
4438 8727C 11/69 to S-366

4303 8583F 08/71 scr
4304 8583F 08/71 scr
4307 8583F 08/71 scr
4308 8583F 08/71 scr
4311 8583F 05/72 scr
4312 8583F 06/72 scr
4329 8583F 10/71 scr
4330 8583F 10/71 scr
4333 8583F 08/71 scr
4334 8583F 08/71 scr
4341 8583F 08/71 scr (office Despl)
4342 8583F 08/71 scr (office Despl)
4343 8583F 04/72 scr
4344 8583F 04/72 scr
4345 8583F 07/71 scr
4346 8583F 07/71 scr
4347 8583F 06/72 scr
4348 8583F 06/72 scr
4349 8583F 03/72 scr
4350 8583F 09/71 scr (office Despl)
4351 8583F 09/71 scr
4352 8583F 09/71 scr
4355 8583F 08/71 scr (office Despl)
4356 8583F 08/72 scr
4359 8583F 02/72 scr
4360 8583F 02/72 scr
4361 8583F 02/72 scr
4362 8583F 02/72 scr
4364 8583F 11/71 scr
4365 8583F 06/72 scr
4366 8583F 06/72 scr
4367 8583F 02/72 scr
4368 8583F 02/72 scr
4369 8583F 04/72 scr
4370 8583F 04/72 scr
4373 8583F 08/71 scr (office Despl)
4374 8583F 02/72 scr
4375 8583F 03/72 scr
4376 8583F 03/72 scr
4383 8583F 05/72 scr
4384 8583F 05/72 scr
4417 8583F 07/71 scr
4418 8583F 07/71 scr
4435 8583F 11/71 scr

4297 8038G 03/72 scr
4298 8038G 08/72 scr
4299 8038G 11/71 scr
4300 8038G 11/71 scr
4301 8038G 03/72 scr
4305 8038G 04/72 scr
4306 8038G 04/72 scr
4309 8038G 04/72 scr
4328 8038G 03/72 scr
4331 8038G 02/72 scr
4332 8038G 02/72 scr
4335 8038G 06/72 scr
4337 8038G 02/72 scr
4338 8038G 02/72 scr
4339 8038G 04/72 scr
4340 8038G 04/72 scr
4353 8038G 08/72 scr
4354 8038G 08/72 scr
4399 8038G 09/72 scr
4411 8038G 02/72 to S-373
4412 8038G 03/72 IL Ry Mus
4421 8038G 02/72 scr
4422 8038G 02/72 scr
4423 8038G 02/72 to S-374
4424 8038G 02/72 scr
4425 8038G 03/72 scr
4426 8038G 03/72 scr
4431 8038G 03/72 scr
4432 8038G 03/72 scr
4433 8038G 03/72 scr
4434 8038G 02/72 scr

4386 8101G 02/72 to S-368
4389 8101G 02/72 to S-372
4390 8101G 02/72 to S-369
4393 8101G 02/72 to S-370
4397 8101G 02/72 to S-371

4310 8173G 10/72 scr
4313 8173G 03/76 Pielet
4336 8173G 10/72 scr
4357 8173G 06/74 to shed
4358 8173G 05/72 to S-1
4377 8173G 08/72 scr
4378 8173G 08/72 scr
4379 8173G 08/72 scr
4380 8173G 08/72 scr
4382 8173G 11/72 scr
4385 8173G 11/72 scr
4387 8173G 12/75 to work
4388 8173G 12/75 to work
4391 8173G 11/72 scr
4392 8173G 11/72 scr
4394 8173G 03/76 Pielet
4395 8173G 03/76 Pielet
4396 8173G 11/72 scr
4398 8173G 11/75 Pielet
4400 8173G 11/72 scr
4401 8173G 09/72 scr
4402 8173G 09/72 scr
4405 8173G 12/75 Pielet
4406 8173G 04/76 Pielet
4427 8173G 08/72 scr
4428 8173G 08/72 scr

4319 8197G 08/73 KY Ry Mus
4320 8197G 04/76 Pielet

S349 8210G 11/75 Pielet

4251 8254G 12/75 Pielet
4252 8254G 12/75 Pielet
4254 8254G 11/75 Pielet
4257 8254G 04/75 MI Tran Mus
4258 8254G 02/75 E Troy Mus
4260 8254G 04/76 Pielet
4261 8254G 01/76 Pielet
4262 8254G 01/76 Pielet
4263 8254G 07/76 Pielet
4264 8254G 06/76 Pielet
4265 8254G 06/76 Pielet
4266 8254G 06/76 Pielet
4267 8254G 08/75 Waterfrnt Elec
4270 8254G 07/76 Pielet
4274 8254G 07/76 Pielet
4277 8254G 11/75 Pielet
4278 8254G 11/75 Pielet
4280 8254G 08/75 Branford Elec
4281 8254G 03/76 Pielet
4282 8254G 04/76 Pielet
4283 8254G 04/75 MI Trol Mus
4284 8254G 10/75 Whse Point
4285 8254G 01/76 Pielet
4286 8254G 01/76 Pielet
4287 8254G 12/75 Pielet
4293 8254G 08/76 IMOTAC
4294 8254G 06/76 Tol & IN His Soc
4295 8254G 10/76 OH Ry Mus
4296 8254G 06/76 Trolvlle USA
4403 8254G 03/76 Pielet
4404 8254G 04/76 Pielet
4410 8254G 03/75 IL Ry Mus
4413 8254G 07/76 Pielet
4414 8254G 07/76 Pielet
4415 8254G 06/76 Pielet
4416 8254G 06/76 Pielet
4419 8254G 12/75 Pielet
4420 8254G 02/75 E Troy Mus
4436 8254G 10/75 Whse Pt
4439 8254G 04/75 MI Trol Mus
4441 8254G 02/75 OH Ry Mus
4442 8254G 04/75 MI Trol Mus
4443 8254G 04/76 Pielet
4444 8254G 01/76 Pielet
4445 8254G 04/76 Pielet
4446 8254G 04/76 Pielet
4448 8254G 04/76 Pielet
4449 8254G 02/75 OH Ry Mus
4450 8254G 04/75 MI Trol Mus
4451 8254G 02/75 RELIC
4454 8254G 11/74 IMOTAC
4455 8254G 03/76 Pielet
S364 8254G 04/76 Pielet

4259 8453G 12/74 to shed
4268 8453G 12/74 to shed
4269 8453G 12/74 to shed
4273 8453G 12/74 to shed
4275 8453G 12/74 to shed
4276 8453G 12/74 to shed
4291 8453G 12/74 to shed
4292 8453G 12/74 to shed
4407 8453G 12/74 to shed
4408 8453G 12/74 to shed
4440 8453G 12/74 to shed
4447 8453G 12/74 to shed
4452 8453G 12/74 to shed

S352 8542G 06/76 scr

4253 8630G 03/76 to work
4288 8630G 03/76 to work

4279 8728G 03/78 to work

4255 8780G 11/78 Ill Ry Mus
4256 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
4289 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
4290 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
4321 8780G 10/79 IMOTAC
4322 8780G 10/79 NARHA
4325 8780G 05/78 MN Tranp Mus
4326 8780G 10/79 IMOTAC
4409 8780G 05/79 Whse Point
4453 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
W4253 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
W4279 8780G 11/78 Pittsbgh Lndmarks
W4288 8780G 12/78 Ill Ry Mus
W4387 8780G /79 MN Transp Mus
W4388 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
S347 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
S348 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
S350 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus
S351 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus
S353 8780G 11/78 NARHA
S354 8780G 11/78 IMOTAC
S355 8780G 11/78 IMOTAC
S356 8780G 11/78 NARHA
S357 8780G 10/79 IMOTAC
S358 8780G 11/78 NARHA
S365 8780G 11/78 NARHA
S366 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus
S368 8780G 11/78 IL Ry Mus
S369 8780G 06/79 IMOTAC
S370 8780G 10/79 NARHA
S371 8780G 07/79 NARHA
S372 8780G 07/79 NARHA
S373 8780G 12/78 IL Ry Mus
S374 8780G 07/79 NARHA

4271 relic
4272 relic

S1 scrapped

CHICAGO & SOUTH SIDE RAPID TRANSIT RR CO
SOUTH SIDE ELEVATED RR CO

1-50 Jackson & Sharp 1892 steam trailer (1)
51-80 Gilbert 1892 steam trailer (1)
81-100 Jackson & Sharp 1892 steam trailer (1) (2)
101-150 Gilbert 1892 steam trailer (1)
151-180 Jackson & Sharp 1892 steam trailer (1)
181-210 Jewett 1900 MU motor (3)
211-230 Jewett 1902 MU motor
231-250 Jewett 1903 MU motor
251-320 Jewett 1905 MU motor (3)
321-400 ACF 1905 MU motor (3)

(1) – 1,2,4-6,8,9,11-13,15-18,20,22-28,30-33,36,39-46,48-52,54-63,65,66,69-73,
75-82,84,85,87,88,90,92-94,97,98,100,102-116,118-123,125-142,144-159,
161-179 (150 cars) rebuilt to MU motor cars, 120 at Wells & French in
1897-98, the other 30 at 61st Shop ca 1899. The remaining 30 cars
were converted to MU trailer cars also at 61st Shop ca 1899. These
30 trailers were further converted to single-end control trailers ca
1900

(2) – car 93 retired 1915 (fell from structure), cars 17,41,56,60,78
retired 1/8/24 by CRT?

(3) – cars 202,260,375 rebuilt 1914-15 with closed ends, air doors on 202,260,
manual doors on 375

all cars to CRT 1-400 1924 except as noted in note 2

CRT/CTA Wood Car Retirements

1 by CRT
2 by CRT
3 by CRT
4 by CRT
5 by CRT
6 by CRT
7 by CRT
8 by CRT
9 by CRT
10 by CRT
11 by CRT
12 by CRT
13 by CRT
14 by CRT
15 by CRT
16 by CRT
17 by CRT
18 by CRT
19 by CRT
20 by CRT
21 by CRT
22 by CRT
23 by CRT
24 by CRT
25 by CRT
26 by CRT
27 by CRT
28 by CRT
29 by CRT
30 by CRT
31 by CRT
32 by CRT
33 by CRT
34 by CRT
35 by CRT
36 by CRT
37 by CRT
38 by CRT
39 by CRT
40 by CRT
41 by CRT
42 by CRT
43 by CRT
44 by CRT
45 by CRT
46 by CRT
47 by CRT
48 by CRT
49 by CRT
50 by CRT
51 by CRT
52 by CRT
53 by CRT
54 by CRT
55 by CRT
Š56 by CRT
57 by CRT
58 by CRT
59 by CRT
60 by CRT
61 by CRT
62 by CRT
63 by CRT
64 by CRT
65 by CRT
66 by CRT
67 by CRT
68 by CRT
69 by CRT
70 by CRT
71 by CRT
72 by CRT
73 by CRT
74 by CRT
75 by CRT
76 by CRT
77 by CRT
78 by CRT
79 by CRT
80 by CRT
81 by CRT
82 by CRT
83 by CRT
84 by CRT
85 by CRT
86 by CRT
87 by CRT
88 by CRT
89 by CRT
90 by CRT
91 by CRT
92 by CRT
93 by CRT
94 by CRT
95 by CRT
96 by CRT
97 by CRT
98 by CRT
99 by CRT
100 by CRT
101 by CRT
102 by CRT
103 by CRT
104 by CRT
105 by CRT
106 by CRT
107 by CRT
108 by CRT
109 by CRT
110 by CRT

111 by CRT
112 by CRT
113 by CRT
114 by CRT
115 by CRT
116 by CRT
117 by CRT
118 by CRT
119 by CRT
120 by CRT
121 by CRT
122 by CRT
123 by CRT
124 by CRT
125 by CRT
126 by CRT
127 by CRT
128 by CRT
129 by CRT
130 by CRT
131 by CRT
132 by CRT
133 by CRT
134 by CRT
135 by CRT
136 by CRT
137 by CRT
138 by CRT
139 by CRT
140 by CRT
141 by CRT
142 by CRT
143 by CRT
144 by CRT
145 by CRT
146 by CRT
147 by CRT
148 by CRT
149 by CRT
150 by CRT
151 by CRT
152 by CRT
153 by CRT
154 by CRT
155 by CRT
156 by CRT
157 by CRT
158 by CRT
159 by CRT
160 by CRT
161 by CRT
162 by CRT
163 by CRT
164 by CRT
165 by CRT

166 by CRT
167 by CRT
168 by CRT
169 by CRT
170 by CRT
171 by CRT
172 by CRT
173 by CRT
174 by CRT
175 by CRT
176 by CRT
177 by CRT
178 by CRT
179 by CRT
181 / /48 10346R
182 12/11/50 12287R
183 01/12/51 12287R
184 12/11/50 12287R
185 by CRT
186 12/11/50 12287R
187 01/12/51 12287R
188 by CRT
189 12/11/50 12287R
190 01/12/51 12287R
191 08/25/50 12287R
192 01/12/51 12287R
193 01/12/51 12287R
194 01/12/51 12287R
195 12/11/50 12287R
196 12/11/50 12287R
197 01/12/51 12287R
198 08/25/50 12287R
199 12/11/50 12287R
200 12/11/50 12287R
201 12/11/50 12287R
202 12/11/50 12287R
203 by CRT
204 12/11/50 12287R
205 12/11/50 12287R
206 12/11/50 12287R
207 01/12/51 12287R
208 12/11/50 12287R
209 11/22/50 12287R
210 12/11/50 12287R

211 03/12/51 12287R
212 08/25/50 12287R
213 03/12/51 12287R
214 03/12/51 12287R
215 07/30/51 12287R
216 03/12/51 12287R
217 by CRT
218 12/11/50 12287R
219 07/30/51 12287R
220 04/09/51 12287R

221 01/12/51 12287R
222 by CRT
223 03/12/51 12287R
224 07/30/51 12287R
225 07/30/51 12287R
226 01/12/51 12287R
227 04/18/51 12287R
228 10/18/50 12287R
229 08/25/50 12287R
230 11/22/50 12287R

231 04/18/51 12287R
232 07/30/51 12287R
233 03/12/51 12287R
234 04/18/51 12287R
235 07/30/51 12287R
236 08/16/50 12287R
237 04/18/51 12287R
238 07/30/51 12287R
239 03/12/51 12287R
240 04/18/51 12287R
241 07/30/51 12287R
242 04/18/51 12287R
243 04/09/51 12287R
244 03/12/51 12287R
245 09/06/50 12287R
246 11/22/50 12287R
247 07/30/51 12287R
248 04/18/51 12287R
249 07/30/51 12287R
250 04/18/51 12287R

251 06/19/57 19071R
252 07/09/56 17386R
253 06/28/57 19071R
254 10/08/55 17128R
255 05/16/56 17386R
256 12/30/55 17386R
257 05/17/57 19071R
258 10/08/55 17128R
259 04/25/57 18307R
260 03/25/55 16584R
261 04/12/57 18307R
262 05/17/57 19071R
263 08/22/56 17386R
264 05/17/57 19071R
265 04/25/57 18307R
266 10/08/55 17128R
267 by CRT
268 10/03/55 17128R
269 06/28/57 19071R
270 05/17/57 19071R
271 04/25/57 18307R
272 10/08/55 17128R
273 05/25/55 17128R

274 06/07/57 19071R
275 06/28/57 19071R
276 06/28/57 19071R
277 07/09/56 17386R
278 06/19/57 19071R
279 07/09/56 17386R
280 05/17/57 19071R
281 06/18/54 13226R
282 04/25/57 18307R
283 05/16/56 17386R
284 11/15/55 17128R
285 04/12/57 18307R
286 06/28/57 19071R
287 04/03/57 18307R
288 05/17/57 19071R
289 06/07/57 19071R
290 06/28/57 19071R
291 05/17/57 19071R
292 08/22/56 17386R
293 06/07/57 19071R
294 04/25/57 18307R
295 05/17/57 19071R
296 05/17/57 19071R
297 09/04/51 13359R
298 09/16/55 17128R
299 10/08/55 17128R
300 by CRT
301 04/03/57 18307R
302 05/17/57 19071R
303 04/23/56 17386R
304 11/11/55 17128R
305 08/22/56 17386R
306 04/12/57 18307R
307 04/12/57 18307R
308 05/16/56 17386R
309 06/21/50 12355R
310 07/24/56 17386R
311 09/16/55 17128R
312 05/16/56 17386R
313 11/11/55 17128R
314 05/17/57 19071R
315 03/04/57 18307R
316 09/16/55 17128R
317 12/30/55 17386R
318 06/28/57 19071R
319 07/09/56 17386R
320 05/17/57 19071R

321 07/24/56 17386R
322 10/15/51 13359R
323 06/28/57 18307R
324 03/28/57 18307R
325 06/07/57 18307R
326 04/12/57 18307R
327 08/22/56 17386R

328 by CRT
329 07/09/56 17386R
330 05/17/57 18307R
331 09/16/55 17128R
332 by CRT
333 03/04/57 18307R
334 07/09/56 17386R
335 05/17/57 18307R
336 04/12/57 18307R
337 04/12/57 18307R
338 09/04/51 13359R
339 03/04/57 18307R
340 05/17/57 18307R
341 03/28/57 18307R
342 03/04/57 18307R
343 04/25/57 18307R
344 11/11/55 17128R
345 06/20/57 18307R
346 07/09/56 17386R
347 07/24/56 17386R
348 07/24/56 17386R
349 11/11/55 17128R
350 07/09/56 17386R
351 07/24/56 17386R
352 04/25/57 18307R
353 11/11/55 17128R
354 05/16/56 17386R
355 03/04/57 18307R
356 12/30/55 17386R
357 07/09/56 17386R
358 09/16/55 17128R
359 07/24/56 17386R
360 03/22/57 18307R
361 07/30/51 13508R
362 by CRT
363 06/28/57 18307R
364 03/04/57 18307R
365 by CRT
366 07/09/56 17386R
367 05/02/57 18307R
368 11/11/55 17128R
369 06/07/57 18307R
370 05/02/57 18307R
371 03/04/57 18307R
372 04/23/56 17386R
373 04/03/57 18307R
374 08/22/56 17386R
375 11/11/55 17128R
376 by CRT
377 11/11/55 17386R
378 04/23/56 17386R
379 03/28/57 18307R
380 04/23/56 17386R
381 05/02/57 18307R
382 05/17/57 18307R

383 by CRT
384 09/16/55 17128R
385 11/11/55 17386R
386 by CRT
387 06/07/57 18307R
388 06/30/50 12287R
389 04/12/57 18307R
390 06/20/57 18307R
391 11/11/55 17386R
392 04/25/57 18307R
393 07/09/56 17386R
394 by CRT
395 06/28/57 18307R
396 04/23/56 17386R
397 04/12/57 18307R
398 06/18/54 13226R
399 11/11/55 17386R
400 03/28/57 18307R

1001 12/14/54 16319R
1002 12/14/54 16319R
1003 12/14/54 16319R
1004 by CRT
1005 04/28/55 17128R
1006 12/27/54 16319R
1007 09/24/54 16449R S322
1008 06/07/55 17128R
1009 / /48 10576
1010 05/28/53 15233R S310
1011 05/28/53 15233R S311
1012 by CRT
1013 12/20/54 16319R
1014 01/03/55 16319R
1015 08/13/54 16319R
1016 12/20/54 16319R
1017 02/04/55 16319R
1018 03/10/55 16584R
1019 12/14/54 16319R
1020 09/24/54 16449R S323
1021 12/27/54 16319R
1022 01/03/55 16319R
1023 12/14/53 13226R
1024 03/16/55 16584R
1025 09/15/52 13508R
1026 12/14/54 16319R
1027 02/28/55 17073R S325
1028 02/18/55 16584R
1029 02/04/55 16319R
1030 12/27/54 16319R
1031 12/11/50 12287R S111
1032 04/15/55 16584R
1033 12/14/54 16319R
1034 06/07/55 17128R
1035 03/28/55 17073R S326
1036 04/28/55 17128R

1037 12/14/54 16319R

1038 02/28/55 17073R S327
1039 01/03/55 16319R
1040 01/03/55 16319R
1041 01/06/55 16319R
1042 12/14/54 16319R
1043 01/03/55 16319R
1044 02/04/55 16319R
1045 06/07/55 17128R
1046 02/04/55 16319R
1047 04/15/55 16584R

1048 04/28/55 17128R
1049 06/07/55 17128R
1050 04/09/54 13226R
1051 04/15/55 16584R
1052 04/15/55 16584R

1053 04/28/55 17128R
1054 12/27/54 16319R
1055 01/03/55 16319R
1056 05/07/54 13226R
1057 04/28/55 17128R
1058 06/07/55 17128R
1059 08/13/54 16319R

1100 12/14/54 16180R
1101 12/14/54 16180R
1102 02/04/55 16281R
1103 12/14/54 16180R
1104 02/04/55 16281R
1105 12/14/54 16180R
1106 02/18/55 16281R
1107 02/04/55 16281R
1108 02/04/55 16281R
1109 12/14/54 16180R
1110 02/04/55 16281R
1111 03/01/55 16281R
1112 03/01/55 16281R
1113 02/28/55 16281R
1114 03/01/55 16281R
1115 03/01/55 16281R
1116 02/28/55 16281R
1117 06/18/54 16180R
1118 06/18/54 16180R
1119 12/20/54 16281R
1120 03/01/55 16582R
1121 04/23/54 15299R
1122 02/28/55 16281R
1123 05/07/54 16180R
1124 12/20/54 16281R
1125 02/28/55 16281R
1126 02/28/55 16281R
1127 06/18/54 16180R

1128 02/28/55 16281R
1129 03/01/55 16582R
1130 04/23/54 15299R
1131 05/12/54 16180R
1132 05/07/54 16180R
1133 02/28/55 16281R
1134 05/07/54 16180R
1135 04/23/54 15299R
1136 12/20/54 16281R
1137 06/18/54 16180R
1138 06/18/54 16180R
1139 03/01/55 16582R
1140 02/28/55 16281R
1141 03/01/55 16582R
1142 05/12/54 16180R
1143 03/01/55 16582R
1144 04/23/54 15299R
1145 05/12/54 16180R
1146 09/16/53 15259R
1147 10/14/53 15259R
1148 12/14/53 15299R
1149 04/30/53 14387R
1150 10/14/53 15259R
1151 12/14/53 15299R
1152 05/12/54 16180R
1153 04/30/53 14387R
1154 05/12/54 16180R
1155 09/16/53 15259R
1156 11/25/53 15259R
1157 12/14/53 15299R
1158 05/12/54 16180R
1159 by CRT
1160 09/16/53 15259R
1161 11/25/53 15259R
1162 04/30/53 14387R
1163 11/25/53 15259R
1164 by CRT
1165 12/14/53 15299R
1166 09/16/53 15259R
1167 10/14/53 15259R
1168 04/30/53 14387R
1169 10/14/53 15259R
1170 12/14/53 15299R
1171 10/14/53 15259R
1172 10/14/53 15259R
1173 11/25/53 15259R
1174 09/16/53 15259R
1175 10/14/53 15259R
1176 12/14/53 15299R
1177 / /48 10346R
1178 12/14/53 15299R
1179 11/25/53 15259R
1180 06/18/54 16180R
1181 12/14/53 15299R
1182 04/30/53 14387R

1183 11/25/53 15259R
1184 11/25/53 15259R
1185 10/01/52 13508R
1186 08/10/53 14387R
1187 12/14/53 15299R
1188 10/14/53 15259R
1189 02/28/55 16281R
1190 05/07/54 16180R
1191 05/07/54 16180R
1192 05/07/54 16180R
1193 08/10/53 14387R
1194 05/07/54 16180R
1195 05/07/54 16180R
1196 05/07/51 12516R
1197 10/01/52 13508R
1198 05/07/54 16180R
1199 05/07/54 16180R

1200 02/04/55 16281R
1201 / /48 10714R
1202 / /48 10714R
1203 11/22/50 12288R
1204 07/18/50 12288R
1205 / /48 10714R
1206 11/22/50 12288R
1207 / /48 10714R
1208 11/22/50 12288R
1209 / /48 10714R

1210 11/25/53 15259R
1211 / /48 10714R
1212 11/22/50 12288R
1213 01/05/51 12516R
1214 / /48 10714R
1215 / /48 10714R
1216 / /48 10714R
1217 / /48 10714R
1218 / /48 10714R
1219 / /49 10714R
1220 01/06/55 16281R
1221 02/18/55 16281R
1222 / /48 10714R
1223 11/22/50 12288R
1224 11/22/50 12288R
1225 / /48 10714R
1226 / /48 10714R
1227 / /48 10714R
1228 / /48 10714R
1229 by CRT
1230 / /48 10714R
1231 / /48 10714R
1232 / /48 10714R
1233 / /48 10714R
1234 / /48 10714R

1235 04/16/51 12516R
1236 01/05/51 12516R
1237 / /48 10714R
1238 / /48 10714R
1239 / /48 10714R
1240 by CRT
1241 / /48 10714R
1242 / /48 10714R
1243 / /48 10714R
1244 / /48 10714R
1245 / /48 10714R
1246 / /48 10714R
1247 / /48 10714R
1248 / /48 10714R
1249 / /48 10714R
1250 / /48 10714R
1251 / /48 10714R
1252 / /48 10714R
1253 / /48 10714R
1254 / /48 10714R
1255 / /48 10714R
1256 11/22/50 12288R
1257 11/22/50 12288R
1258 / /48 10714R
1259 11/22/50 12288R

1260 02/18/55 16281R
1261 02/18/55 16281R
1262 02/18/55 16281R
1263 01/06/55 16281R
1264 02/18/55 16281R
1265 02/18/55 16281R
1266 12/07/51 12516R
1267 02/04/55 16281R
1268 02/18/55 16281R
1269 02/18/55 16281R

1270 / /51 11146 1809
1271 / /51 11146 1810
1272 / /51 11146 1811
1273 / /51 11146 1812
1274 / /51 11146 1813
1275 / /51 11146 1815
1276 / /51 11146 1814
1277 11/25/53 15259R
1278 02/18/55 16281R
1279 11/25/53 15259R

1700 08/13/54 13226R
1701 11/19/54 16319R
1702 08/13/54 13226R
1703 08/13/54 13226R
1704 09/16/53 13226R
1705 11/19/54 16319R
1706 11/19/54 16319R

1707 08/13/54 13226R
1708 08/13/54 13226R
1709 08/13/54 13226R
1710 06/09/55 17128R
1711 12/14/53 13226R
1712 02/04/55 16319R
1713 06/09/55 17128R
1714 11/19/54 16319R
1715 11/19/54 16319R
1716 08/13/54 13226R
1717 08/13/54 13226R
1718 06/18/54 13226R
1719 06/09/55 17128R
1720 11/19/54 16319R
1721 11/19/54 16319R
1722 06/09/55 17128R
1723 05/01/54 13226R
1724 11/19/54 16319R
1725 11/19/54 16319R
1726 05/17/54 16231R S315
1727 04/09/54 13226R
1728 05/12/54 13226R
1729 11/19/54 16319R
1730 08/13/54 13226R
1731 12/20/54 16319R
1732 by CRT
1733 05/17/54 16231R S316
1734 01/03/55 16319R

1735 03/12/58 19098R
1736 03/27/58 19098R
1737 02/20/58 19098R
1738 10/31/57 19098R
1739 03/27/58 19098R
1740 03/06/58 19098R
1741 03/27/58 19098R
1742 11/02/56 18347R
1743 03/27/58 19098R
1744 03/04/58 19098R
1745 03/12/58 19098R
1746 01/23/58 19098R
1747 03/12/58 19098R
1748 04/09/58 19098R
1749 04/09/58 19098R
1750 07/25/58 10229R S341
1751 04/09/58 19098R
1752 03/12/58 19098R
1753 01/21/58 19238R S332
1754 12/31/57 19238R S333
1755 04/06/56 18032R S330
1756 03/27/58 19098R
1757 04/09/58 19098R
1758 03/27/58 19098R
1759 02/13/57 17307R
1760 03/27/58 19098R

1761 07/05/57 19098R
1762 04/09/58 19231R
1763 06/12/59 10364R S342
1764 11/28/58 19231R
1765 10/31/57 19098R
1766 03/27/58 19098R
1767 10/31/57 19098R
1768 10/31/57 19098R

1769 01/03/55 16319R
1770 06/20/58 19231R
1771 11/28/58 19231R
1772 06/20/58 19231R
1773 11/28/58 19231R
1774 06/27/58 19231R
1775 06/20/58 19231R
1776 06/27/58 19231R
1777 03/15/57 18307R
1778 06/27/58 19231R
1779 07/30/51 13235R
1780 11/28/58 19231R
1781 06/20/58 19231R
1782 06/27/58 19231R
1783 03/02/59 10187R
1784 06/20/58 19231R
1785 06/27/58 19231R
1786 01/13/59 19231R
1787 10/31/57 19098R
1788 11/28/58 19231R

1789 01/13/59 19231R
1790 12/26/58 19231R S345
1791 01/13/59 19231R
1792 12/05/58 19231R S328
1793 01/13/59 10187R
1794 01/13/59 10187R
1795 11/02/56 18347R
1796 07/11/58 19231R sold
1797 07/11/58 19231R sold
1798 06/20/58 19231R
1799 01/13/59 10187R
1800 11/28/58 19231R
1801 11/02/56 18347R
1802 01/13/59 10187R
1803 01/13/59 10187R

1804 11/02/56 18347R
1805 06/20/58 19231R
1806 01/13/59 10187R
1807 05/01/59 10187R
1808 05/16/59 10187R sold

1809 01/21/58 19238R S334
1810 01/15/58 19238R S335
1811 01/16/58 19238R S336

1812 01/15/58 19238R S337
1813 12/26/57 19238R S338
1814 01/06/58 19238R S339
1815 01/09/58 19238R S340

2100 03/05/54 15299R
2101 by CRT
2102 12/14/53 15299R
2103 by CRT
2104 05/07/54 16180R
2105 09/16/53 15259R
2106 12/14/53 15299R
2107 05/07/54 16180R
2108 by CRT
2109 12/14/53 15299R
2110 05/07/54 16180R
2111 09/16/53 15259R
2112 05/07/54 16180R
2113 05/07/54 16180R
2114 05/07/54 16180R
2115 09/16/53 15259R
2116 05/07/54 15299R
2117 09/16/53 15259R
2118 09/16/53 15259R
2119 05/07/54 15299R
2120 09/16/53 15259R
2121 12/14/53 15299R
2122 12/14/53 15299R
2123 09/16/53 15259R
2124 by CRT
2125 03/06/52 12516R
2126 12/14/53 15299R
2127 04/06/53 13508R
2128 04/06/53 13508R
2129 11/22/50 12288R
2130 / /48 10714R
2131 / /48 10714R
2132 10/05/51 12516R
2133 10/05/51 12516R
2134 10/05/51 12516R
2135 07/10/50 12288R
2136 05/09/51 12516R
2137 10/05/51 12516R
2138 04/06/53 13508R
2139 07/18/50 12288R
2140 09/01/50 12288R
2141 10/05/51 12516R
2142 09/01/50 12288R
2143 04/06/53 13508R
2144 / /48 10714R
2145 03/06/52 12516R
2146 09/01/50 12288R
2147 / /48 10714R
2148 / /48 10714R
2149 / /48 10714R

2150 01/07/52 12516R
2151 09/01/50 12288R
2152 10/15/51 12516R
2153 04/06/53 14387R
2154 03/12/51 12516R
2155 by CRT
2156 03/12/51 12516R
2157 09/16/53 15259R
2158 04/24/53 14387R
2159 09/01/50 12288R
2160 01/07/52 12516R
2161 by CRT
2162 04/24/53 14387R
2163 03/06/52 12516R
2164 / /48 10714R
2165 11/22/50 12288R
2166 / /48 10714R
2167 09/16/53 15259R
2168 05/09/51 12516R
2169 / /48 10714R
2170 09/01/50 12288R
2171 04/06/53 14387R
2172 08/10/53 14387R
2173 08/10/53 14387R
2174 07/18/50 12288R
2175 05/09/51 12516R
2176 09/01/50 12288R
2177 11/22/50 12288R
2178 07/07/50 12288R
2179 by CRT
2180 09/16/53 15259R
2181 04/24/53 14387R
2182 10/05/51 12516R
2183 07/07/50 12288R
2184 by CRT
2185 / /48 10714R
2186 09/01/50 12288R
2187 07/10/50 12288R
2188 10/15/51 12516R
2189 / /48 10714R
2190 08/10/53 14387R
2191 10/15/51 12516R
2192 07/10/50 12288R
2193 11/22/50 12288R
2194 by CRT
2195 by CRT
2196 by CRT
2197 07/07/50 12288R
2198 05/09/51 12516R
2199 05/09/51 12516R
2200 07/07/50 12288R
2201 10/05/51 12516R
2202 05/12/54 16180R
2203 05/14/53 14387R
2204 / /48 10714R

2205 10/01/52 13508R
2206 / /48 10714R
2207 / /48 10714R
2208 / /48 10714R
2209 by CRT
2210 05/09/51 12516R
2211 11/22/50 12288R
2212 by CRT
2213 09/01/50 12288R
2214 / /48 10714R
2215 03/06/52 12516R
2216 01/07/52 12516R
2217 10/15/51 12516R
2218 01/07/52 12516R
2219 05/09/51 12516R
2220 by CRT
2221 03/06/52 12516R
2222 11/15/51 12516R
2223 09/01/50 12288R
2224 / /48 10714R
2225 / /48 10714R
2226 09/01/50 12288R
2227 by CRT
2228 10/05/51 12516R
2229 01/07/52 12516R
2230 11/22/50 12288R
2231 09/01/50 12288R
2232 / /48 10714R
2233 09/01/50 12288R
2234 / /48 10714R
2235 11/22/50 12288R
2236 by CRT
2237 10/01/52 13508R
2238 by CRT
2239 03/06/52 12516R
2240 / /48 10714R
2241 07/07/50 12288R
2242 03/06/52 12516R
2243 10/15/51 12516R
2244 10/18/50 12288R
2245 / /48 10714R
2246 05/09/51 12516R
2247 / /48 10714R
2248 05/14/53 14387R
2249 01/07/52 12516R
2250 / /48 10714R
2251 03/06/52 12516R
2252 03/06/52 12516R
2253 / /48 10714R
2254 10/01/52 13508R
2255 by CRT
2256 09/01/50 12288R
2257 08/10/53 14387R
2258 11/22/50 12288R
2259 08/10/53 14387R

2260 / /48 10714R
2261 05/14/53 14387R
2262 12/14/53 15299R
2263 10/05/51 12516R
2264 / /48 10714R
2265 09/01/50 12288R
2266 12/11/50 12516R
2267 09/01/50 12288R
2268 03/06/52 12516R
2269 11/22/50 12288R
2270 03/06/52 12516R
2271 by CRT
2272 09/01/50 12288R
2273 by CRT
2274 / /48 10714R
2275 08/10/53 14387R
2276 05/28/53 15233R S312
2277 by CRT
2278 / /48 10714R
2279 by CRT
2280 05/14/53 14387R
2281 12/14/53 15299R
2282 by CRT
2283 10/15/51 12516R
2284 07/07/50 12288R
2285 by CRT
2286 / /48 10714R
2287 by CRT
2288 by CRT
2289 09/16/53 15259R
2290 03/12/51 12516R
2291 05/12/54 16180R
2292 05/01/54 15299R
2293 / /48 10346R
2294 01/03/55 16281R
2295 12/27/54 16281R
2296 09/16/53 15259R
2297 05/12/54 16180R
2298 01/06/55 16281R
2299 05/07/54 15299R
2300 09/16/53 15259R
2301 / /48 10346R
2302 05/12/54 16180R
2303 04/30/53 14387R
2304 by CRT
2305 12/14/53 15299R
2306 11/15/51 12516R
2307 09/16/53 15259R
2308 08/26/54 16180R
2309 03/06/52 12516R
2310 08/10/53 14387R
2311 05/01/54 15299R
2312 10/14/53 15259R
2313 05/01/54 15299R
2314 10/14/53 15259R

2315 12/27/54 16281R
2316 05/01/54 15299R
2317 07/07/54 16180R
2318 05/07/54 15299R
2319 05/07/54 15299R
2320 08/26/54 16180R
2321 01/06/55 16281R
2322 05/12/54 16180R
2323 04/09/51 12516R
2324 05/07/54 15299R
2325 05/07/54 15299R
2326 12/27/54 16281R
2327 12/14/53 15299R
2328 05/07/54 15299R
2329 01/06/55 16281R
2330 01/06/55 16281R
2331 05/07/54 15299R
2332 12/27/54 16281R
2333 05/07/54 15299R
2334 04/30/53 14387R
2335 07/07/54 16180R
2336 07/07/54 16180R
2337 01/06/55 16281R
2338 10/14/53 15259R
2339 09/16/53 15259R
2340 05/01/54 15299R

2500 07/07/54 16180R
2501 09/16/53 15259R
2502 07/07/54 16180R
2503 07/07/54 16180R
2504 04/30/53 14387R
2505 09/16/53 15259R
2506 07/07/54 16180R
2507 12/27/54 16281R
2508 07/07/54 16180R
2509 01/03/55 16281R
2510 01/03/55 16281R
2511 01/03/55 16281R
2512 04/16/54 15299R
2513 09/16/53 15259R
2514 04/30/53 14387R
2515 12/14/53 15299R
2516 07/07/54 16180R
2517 04/30/53 14387R
2518 07/07/54 16180R
2519 12/14/53 15299R
2520 12/14/53 15299R

2701 by CRT
2702 12/11/50 12287R
2703 05/17/55 17128R
2704 03/10/55 16584R
2705 03/12/51 12287R
2706 04/28/55 17128R

2707 03/16/55 16584R
2708 07/30/51 13508R
2709 03/25/55 16584R
2710 by CRT
2711 02/13/57 17386R
2712 04/08/55 16584R
2713 03/16/55 16584R
2714 03/10/55 16584R
2715 03/16/55 16584R
2716 03/10/55 16584R
2717 12/03/52 14478R S308
2718 05/25/55 17128R
2719 12/14/54 16319R
2720 04/08/55 16584R
2721 by CRT
2722 04/08/55 16584R
2723 by CRT
2724 05/17/55 17128R
2725 03/25/55 16584R
2726 by CRT
2727 04/08/55 16584R
2728 03/10/55 16584R
2729 07/18/50 12287R
2730 04/15/55 16584R
2731 03/25/55 16584R
2732 by CRT
2733 04/08/55 16584R
2734 04/15/55 16584R
2735 03/25/55 16584R
2736 by CRT
2737 05/25/55 17128R
2738 by CRT
2739 04/15/55 16584R
2740 by CRT
2741 05/17/55 17128R
2742 by CRT
2743 06/13/55 17128R
2744 09/07/50 12287R
2745 04/15/55 16584R
2746 03/25/55
2747 03/15/55 16584R
2748 07/30/51 13508R
2749 04/08/55 16584R
2750 by CRT
2751 04/08/55 16584R
2752 by CRT
2753 05/17/55 17128R
2754 03/16/55 16584R
2755 03/25/55 16584R
2756 by CRT
2757 03/10/55 16584R
2758 03/15/55 16584R
2759 04/28/55 17128R
2760 by CRT
2761 by CRT

2762 03/25/55 16584R
2763 04/08/55 16584R
2764 12/14/54 16319R
2765 02/26/54 13226R
2766 06/13/55
2767 by CRT
2768 04/08/55 16584R
2769 05/17/55 17128R
2770 03/25/55 16584R
2771 05/25/55 17128R
2772 11/13/52 13226R
2773 12/14/54 16319R
2774 by CRT
2775 04/08/55 16584R
2776 by CRT
2777 02/19/54 13226R
2778 03/25/55 16584R
2779 04/08/55 16584R
2780 03/25/55 16584R
2781 03/25/55 16584R
2782 05/25/55 17128R
2783 by CRT
2784 03/10/55 16584R
2785 04/08/55 16584R
2786 05/17/55 17128R
2787 04/08/55 16584R
2788 05/25/55 17128R
2789 04/08/55 16584R
2790 11/18/57 19098R
2791 08/16/57 19098R
2792 by CRT
2793 06/28/57 19071R
2794 11/08/57 19098R
2795 12/06/57 19098R
2796 10/31/57 19098R
2797 03/12/58 19098R
2798 03/04/57 18307R
2799 08/16/57 19098R
2800 11/22/57 19098R S331
2801 11/18/57 19098R
2802 11/08/57 19098R
2803 12/06/57 19098R
2804 10/31/57 19098R
2805 03/22/57 18307R
2806 12/06/57 19098R
2807 05/17/57 19071R
2808 03/27/58 19098R
2809 03/22/57 18307R
2810 11/08/57 19098R
2811 11/18/57 19098R
2812 / /49 10650R
2813 11/18/57 19098R
2814 10/31/57 19098R
2815 05/07/58 19231R
2816 06/16/55 17264R S329

2817 10/31/57 19098R
2818 06/19/57 19071R
2819 08/16/57 19098R
2820 03/12/58 19098R
2821 03/04/57 18307R
2822 11/08/57 19098R
2823 09/27/51 13226R
2824 03/12/58 19098R
2825 03/22/57 18307R
2826 06/19/57 19071R
2827 03/15/57 18307R
2828 / /49 10650R
2829 03/27/58 19098R
2830 12/06/57 19098R
2831 06/19/57 19071R
2832 08/16/57 19098R
2833 03/22/57 18307R
2834 03/04/57 18307R
2835 01/06/55 16319R S324
2836 11/18/57 19098R
2837 03/28/57 18307R
2838 03/04/57 18307R
2839 03/15/57 18307R
2840 08/16/57 19098R
2841 11/18/57 19098R
2842 03/06/58 19098R
2843 03/12/58 19098R
2844 03/04/57 18307R
2845 03/27/58 19098R
2846 10/31/57 19098R
2847 06/19/57 19071R
2848 03/12/58 19098R
2849 11/08/57 19098R
2850 03/12/58 19098R
2851 08/16/57 19098R
2852 03/12/58 19098R
2853 10/31/57 19098R
2854 03/12/58 19098R
2855 03/15/57 18307R
2856 11/08/57 19098R
2857 03/28/57 18307R
2858 10/15/58 19231R
2859 11/08/57 19098R
2860 12/31/57 19098R
2861 10/18/57 19098R
2862 12/31/57 19098R
2863 12/31/57 19098R
2864 10/18/57 19098R
2865 12/31/57 19098R
2866 06/20/58 19231R
2867 by CRT
2868 06/20/57 19071R
2869 09/29/58 19231R
2870 09/29/58 19231R
2871 08/23/57 19098R

2872 08/02/57 19098R
2873 02/04/55 16319R
2874 10/15/58 19231R
2875 08/23/57 19098R
2876 06/19/57 19071R
2877 08/02/57 19098R
2878 06/28/57 19071R
2879 08/23/57 19098R
2880 06/20/58 19231R
2881 10/15/58 19231R
2882 08/16/57 19098R
2883 12/31/57 19098R
2884 12/31/57 19098R
2885 06/28/57 19071R
2886 09/29/58 19231R
2887 01/10/58 19098R
2888 04/25/57 18307R
2889 06/28/57 19071R
2890 08/23/57 19098R
2891 09/29/58 19231R
2892 12/06/57 19098R
2893 01/10/58 19098R
2894 06/28/57 19098R
2895 01/10/58 19098R
2896 08/23/57 19098R
2897 08/23/57 19098R
2898 05/09/58 19231R
2899 05/28/58 19231R
2900 06/28/57 19098R
2901 05/09/58 19231R
2902 08/16/57 19098R
2903 05/28/58 19231R
2904 05/28/58 19231R
2905 05/09/58 19231R
2906 06/20/58 19231R
2907 06/20/58 19231R
2908 05/01/59 10187R
2909 05/28/58 19231R
2910 05/09/58 19231R
2911 06/20/58 19291R
2912 11/28/58 19291R
2913 08/01/58 19291R
2914 08/16/57 19098R
2915 08/01/58 19291R
2916 05/28/58 19291R
2917 06/20/58 19291R
2918 09/29/58 19291R
2919 05/01/59 10187R
2920 05/09/58 19291R
2921 06/20/58 19291R
2922 05/09/58 19291R
2923 08/01/58 19291R
2924 05/28/58 19291R
2925 05/09/58 19291R
2926 05/28/58 19291R

2927 / /48 10329R

3001 04/23/54 15299R
3002 04/18/51 12516R
3003 10/01/51 13508R
3004 09/07/50 12288R
3005 by CRT
3006 04/18/51 12516R
3007 09/08/50 12288R
3008 07/02/52 12516R
3009 09/07/50 12288R
3010 12/07/51 12516R
3011 02/28/55 16281R
3012 by CRT
3013 / /48 17014R
3014 by CRT
3015 09/07/50 12288R
3016 09/07/50 12288R
3017 07/02/52 12516R
3018 by CRT
3019 04/18/51 12516R
3020 / /48 17014R
3021 09/07/50 12288R
3022 08/10/53 14387R
3023 07/30/51 12516R
3024 10/15/51 12516R
3025 / /48 17014R
3026 09/07/50 12288R
3027 / /48 17014R
3028 by CRT
3029 07/02/52 12516R
3030 07/02/52 13508R
3031 04/23/54 15299R
3032 10/01/52 13508R
3033 by CRT
3034 09/07/50 12288R
3035 09/07/50 12288R
3036 / /48 17014R
3037 07/02/52 13508R
3038 / /48 10714R
3039 by CRT
3040 04/16/51 12516R
3041 04/16/51 12516R
3042 07/02/52 13508R
3043 12/07/51 12516R
3044 07/02/52 13508R
3045 09/07/50 12288R
3046 07/02/52 13508R
3047 04/18/51 12516R
3048 07/01/52 13508R
3049 10/01/52 13508R
3050 10/01/52 13508R
3051 05/04/54 16258R S320
3052 / /48 17014R
3053 04/16/51 12516R

3054 / /48 17014R
3055 by CRT
3056 by CRT
3057 12/07/51 12516R
3058 08/10/53 14387R
3059 07/02/52 13508R
3060 10/01/52 13508R
3061 07/02/52 13508R
3062 07/02/52 13508R
3063 by CRT
3064 04/16/51 12516R
3065 04/18/51 12516R
3066 07/02/52 13508R
3067 04/23/54 15299R
3068 09/07/50 12288R
3069 09/08/50 12288R
3070 07/10/52 13508R
3071 by CRT
3072 by CRT
3073 09/07/50 12288R
3074 by CRT
3075 by CRT
3076 03/20/50 12140R
3077 09/07/50 12288R
3078 09/07/50 12288R
3079 / /48 17014R
3080 10/01/52 13508R
3081 09/07/50 12288R
3082 03/20/50 12140R
3083 / /48 17014R
3084 by CRT
3085 by CRT
3086 / /48 10714R
3087 04/23/54 15299R
3088 09/07/50 12288R
3089 08/10/53 15259R
3090 07/02/52 13508R
3091 by CRT
3092 / /48 17014R
3093 04/18/51 12516R
3094 07/02/52 13508R
3095 by CRT
3096 / /48 17014R
3097 07/30/51 12516R
3098 / /48 17014R
3099 by CRT
3100 07/02/52 13508R
3101 07/07/54 16332R S321
3102 12/27/54 16319R
3103 12/07/51 13226R
3104 12/07/51 13226R
3105 12/07/51 13226R
3106 by CRT
3107 05/15/52 14192R S307
3108 12/07/51 13226R

3109 by CRT
3110 10/05/51 13226R
3111 04/09/51 12287R
3112 11/22/50 12287R
3113 03/12/51 12287R
3114 12/07/51 13226R
3115 12/07/51 13226R
3116 12/07/51 13226R
3117 by CRT
3118 12/07/51 13226R
3119 02/18/55 16584R
3120 03/03/52 14047R
3121 07/02/52 13226R
3122 12/07/51 13226R
3123 12/07/51 13226R
3124 by CRT
3125 / /48 10346R
3126 07/02/52 13226R
3127 11/22/50 12287R
3128 08/15/50 12287R
3129 12/07/51 13226R
3130 07/30/51 13226R
3131 12/07/51 13226R
3132 07/02/52 13226R
3133 07/02/52 13226R
3134 02/01/52 14021R S306
3135 08/03/51 13337R S304
3136 08/03/51 13337R S305
3137 02/26/52 13226R
3138 07/02/52 13226R
3139 06/18/54 13226R
3140 08/13/54 16319R
3141 01/03/55 16319R
3142 02/07/55 16319R
3143 06/18/54 13226R
3144 02/25/54 16089R S318
3145 07/24/53 15312R S313
3146 02/25/54 16089R S319
3147 01/23/58 19098R
3148 02/13/57 17386R
3149 02/13/57 17386R
3150 03/04/57 18307R
3151 03/02/59 10187R
3152 01/23/58 19098R
3153 10/10/56 17386R
3154 10/10/56 17386R
3155 10/10/56 17386R
3156 03/04/58 19098R
3157 07/05/57 19098R
3158 by CRT
3159 10/10/56 17386R
3160 03/04/58 19098R
3161 02/13/57 17386R
3162 10/10/56 17386R
3163 02/13/57 17386R

3164 07/05/57 19098R
3165 10/10/56 17386R
3166 06/28/57 19098R

3201 04/18/51 12516R
3202 11/22/50 12288R
3203 10/14/53 15259R
3204 10/14/53 15259R
3205 11/22/50 12288R
3206 / /48 10714R
3207 11/22/50 12288R
3208 / /48 10714R
3209 / /48 10714R
3210 / /48 10714R
3211 08/10/53 15259R
3212 11/22/50 12288R
3213 05/07/51 12516R
3214 08/10/53 15259R
3215 11/22/50 12288R
3216 / /48 10714R
3217 / /48 10714R
3218 / /48 10714R
3219 / /48 10714R
3220 11/22/50 12288R
3221 / /48 10714R
3222 09/16/53 15259R
3223 04/23/54 15299R
3224 11/22/50 12288R
3225 11/22/50 12288R
3226 07/02/52 13508R
3227 11/22/50 12288R
3228 / /48 10714R
3229 11/22/50 12288R
3230 / /48 10714R
3231 / /48 10714R
3232 / /48 10714R
3233 by CRT
3234 01/05/51 12516R
3235 / /48 10346R
3236 04/23/54 15299R
3237 / /48 10714R
3238 12/14/53 15299R

Group numbers:

1 – 4210-4250
2 – 4109-4128
3 – 2790, 2908-2927
4 – 2858-2907
5 – 2711, 2813-2857
6 – 2791, 2793-2812
7 – 2725, 2753, 2757, 2768, 2780-2782, 2784-2789
8 – 2764-2765, 2769-2773, 2775, 2777-2779
9 – 2758-2759, 2763
Š10 – 2755, 2762
11 – vacant
12 – 2702-2709, 2712-2716, 2718-2720, 2722, 2724, 2727-2731,
2733-2735¬ 2737¬ 2739¬ 2741¬ 2743-2745¬ 2747-2749¬ 2751¬
2754
13 – 2717
14 – 2746, 2766
15 – 4045-4066
16 – 2100-2102, 2104-2124, 2167
17 – 2125-2139, 2141-2149, 2151-2153, 2155-2156, 2158-2166,
2168-2199
18 – 2150
19 – 2154
20 – 2157, 2262
21 – 2200-2201, 2203-2206, 2208-2224
22 – 2202
23 – 2207
24 – 2225-2249
25 – 2250-2261, 2263-2267
26 – 2140, 2268-2278, 2280, 2282-2287
27 – 2281
28 – 2289-2293, 2297-2304, 2306-2308, 2500, 2503-2506, 2508-2511
29 – 2279, 2312-2340, 2294-2295, 2501-2502, 2505, 2507, 2512-2520
30 – 4311-4330
31 – 4376-4395

101 – 4129-4169
102 – 4067-4087
103 – 1789-1808
104 – 1769-1788
105 – 1735-1768
106 – 1700-1734
107 – 1053-1059
108 – 1048-1052
109 – 1038-1047
110 – 1001-1011, 1013-1037
111 – 1270-1279
112 – 1260-1269
113 – 1235-1259
114 – 1211-1220, 1222-1234
115 – 1210
116 – 1221
117 – 1201-1209
118 – 1200
119 – 1100-1199
120 – 4001-4022
121 – 4251-4280
122 – 4396-4425

201 – 4170-4209
202 – 4088-4108
203 – 321-327, 329-375, 377-385, 387-393, 395-400
204 – 251-266, 268-320
205 – 231-250
206 – 211-230
Š207 – 181-184, 186-187, 189-202-204-210
208 – 1-16, 18-29, 31-32, 35-40, 42-50, 81-100, 151-180

CHICAGO RAPID TRANSIT CO cars by groups

1 4210-4250 1915 Cincinnati to CTA
2 4109-4128 1913 Cincinnati to CTA
3 2908-2927 1907 Pullman to CTA
3 2790:2 1907 Pullman to CTA
4 2858-2866 1906 Pullman to CTA
4 2868-2907 1906 Pullman to CTA
5 2813-2857 1904 AC&F to CTA
5 2711:2 1904 AC&F to CTA
— 2790 1904 Jewett ret by 1907 (see group 3)
6 2791 1904 Jewett to CTA
6 2792 1904 Jewett retired 1926
6 2793-2812 1904 Jewett to CTA
7 2782 1901 Jewett to CTA
— 2783 1901 Jewett retired 1908, to S-200
7 2784-2789 1901 Jewett to CTA
7 2725:2 1901 Jewett to CTA
7 2753:2 1901 Jewett to CTA
7 2757:2 1901 Jewett to CTA
7 2768:2 1901 Jewett to CTA
7 2780-2781:2 1901 Jewett to CTA
8 2764-2765 1899 B&S to CTA
— 2766 1899 B&S ret by 1909 (see group 14)
8 2767 1899 B&S burn 1930
— 2768 1899 B&S ret by 1901 (see group 7)
8 2769-2773 1899 B&S to CTA
8 2774 1899 B&S burn 1930
8 2775 1899 B&S to CTA
8 2776 1899 B&S burn 1930
8 2777-2779 1899 B&S to CTA
— 2780-2781 1899 B&S ret by 1901 (see group 7)
9 2756 189¸ B&Ó to medical car 1932
— 2757 1898 B&S ret by 1901 (see group 7)
9 2758-2759 1898 B&S to CTA
9 2760 1898 B&S burn 1930
— 2761 1898 B&S retired 1902, to S-201
— 2762 1898 B&S ret by 1900 (see group 10)
9 2763 1898 B&S to CTA
10 2755:2 1900 AC&F to CTA
10 2762:2 1900 AC&F to CTA
11 not used
12 2701 1894 B&S burn 1930
12 2702-2709 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2710 1894 B&S burn 1930
— 2711 1894 B&S ret by 1904 (see group 5)
12 2712-2716 1894 B&S to CTA
— 2717 1894 B&S ret by 1912 (see group 13)
12 2718-2720 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2721 1894 B&S to work motor 1918
12 2722 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2723 1894 B&S burn 1930
12 2724 1894 B&S to CTA
— 2725 1894 B&S ret by 1901 (see group 7)
12 2726 1894 B&S burn 1930

12 2727-2731 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2732 1894 B&S burn 1930
12 2733-2735 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2736 1894 B&S burn 1930
12 2737 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2738 1894 B&S burn 1930
12 2739 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2740 1894 B&S burn 1930
12 2741 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2742 1894 B&S burn 1930
12 2743-2745 1894 B&S to CTA
— 2746 1894 B&S ret by 1909 (see group 14)
12 2747-2749 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2750 1894 B&S to work motor 1918
12 2751 1894 B&S to CTA
12 2752 1894 B&S burn 1930
— 2753 1894 B&S ret by 1901 (see group 7)
12 2754 1894 B&S to CTA
— 2755 1894 B&S ret by 1900 (see group 10)
13 2717:2 1912 AC&F to CTA
14 2746:2 1909 MWSE to CTA
14 2766:2 1909 MWSE to CTA
15 4045-4066 1913 Cincinnati to CTA
16A 2100 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16A 2101 1894 Pullman retired 1945 (Control)
16A 2102 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16A 2103 1894 Pullman retired 1916 (Control)
16B 2104 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
16A 2105-2106 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16C 2107 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16A 2108 1894 Pullman retired 1945 (Control)
16A 2109 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16B 2110 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
16A 2111 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16B 2112 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
16C 2113 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16B 2114 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
16A 2115 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16B 2116 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
16A 2117-2118 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16C 2119 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16A 2120-2123 1894 Pullman to CTA (Control)
16A 2124 1894 Pullman retired 1929 (Control)
17B 2125 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17C 2126-2129 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2130-2132 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2133 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2134 1894 Pullman to CTA
17C 2135 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17B 2136 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2137 1894 Pullman to CTA
17C 2138 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2139 1894 Pullman to CTA
— 2140 1894 Pullman ret by 1900 (see group 26)
17A 2141-2142 1894 Pullman to CTA

17C 2143 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2144 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2145 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2146-2149 1894 Pullman to CTA
— 2150 1894 Pullman ret by 1900 (see group 18)
17A 2151-2152 1894 Pullman to CTA
17C 2153 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
— 2154 1894 Pullman ret by 1912 (see group 19)
17A 2155 1894 Pullman burn 1930
17B 2156 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
— 2157 1894 Pullman ret by 1907 (see group 20)
17C 2158 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2159 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2160 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2161 1894 Pullman burn 1930
17C 2162 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17B 2163 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2164 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2165 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2166 1894 Pullman to CTA
16A 2167 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2168 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2169-2170 1894 Pullman to CTA
17C 2171-2173 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2174 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2175-2176 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17C 2177 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17B 2178 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2179 1894 Pullman burn 1930
17C 2180-2181 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2182 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2183 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2184 1894 Pullman burn 1930
17A 2185-2186 1894 Pullman to CTA
17B 2187-2188 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2189 1894 Pullman to CTA
17C 2190 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17B 2191-2193 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
17A 2194-2196 1894 Pullman burn 1930
17B 2197-2199 1894 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
18 2150:2 1900 AC&F to CTA (Reinf)
19 2154:2 1912 MWSE to CTA (Control)
20 2157:2 1907 Pullman to CTA (Control)
20 2262:2 1907 Pullman to CTA (Control)
21B 2200 1895 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
21A 2201 1895 Pullman to CTA
21C 2203 1895 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
21A 2204 1895 Pullman to CTA
21B 2205 1895 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
21A 2206 1895 Pullman to CTA
— 2207 1895 Pullman ret by 1901 (see group 23)
21A 2208 1895 Pullman to CTA
21A 2209 1895 Pullman burn 1930
21B 2210-2211 1895 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
21A 2212 1895 Pullman burn 1930

21A 2213 1895 Pullman to CTA
21B 2214-2219 1895 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
21A 2220 1895 Pullman burn 1930
21B 2221 1895 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
21A 2222-2224 1895 Pullman to CTA
22 2202 1895 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
23 2207:2 1901 AC&F to CTA
24A 2225-2226 1897 Pullman to CTA
24A 2227 1897 Pullman burn 1930
24A 2228 1897 Pullman to CTA
24B 2229-2230 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24A 2231-2232 1897 Pullman to CTA
24B 2233 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24A 2234 1897 Pullman to CTA
24B 2235 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24A 2236 1897 Pullman burn 1930
24B 2237 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24A 2238 1897 Pullman burn 1930
24B 2239 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24A 2240 1897 Pullman to CTA
24B 2241-2243 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24C 2244 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24A 2245 1897 Pullman to CTA
24B 2246 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24A 2247 1897 Pullman to CTA
24C 2248 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
24B 2249 1897 Pullman to CTA (Reinf)
25A 2250 1899 H&H to CTA
25B 2251-2252 1899 H&H to CTA (Reinf)
25A 2253 1899 H&H to CTA
25B 2254 1899 H&H to CTA (Reinf)
25A 2255 1899 H&H burn 1930
25A 2256 1899 H&H to CTA
25C 2257 1899 H&H to CTA (Reinf)
25B 2258 1899 H&H to CTA (Reinf)
25C 2259 1899 H&H to CTA (Reinf)
25A 2260 1899 H&H to CTA
25C 2261 1899 H&H to CTA (Reinf)
— 2262 1899 H&H ret by 1907 (see group 20)
25A 2263-2265 1899 H&H to CTA
25B 2266 1899 H&H to CTA (Reinf)
25A 2267 1899 H&H to CTA
26B 2268-2270 1900 AC&F to CTA (Reinf)
26A 2271 1900 AC&F burn 1930
26A 2272 1900 AC&F to CTA
26A 2273 1900 AC&F burn 1930
26A 2274 1900 AC&F to CTA
26C 2275-2276 1900 AC&F to CTA (Reinf)
26A 2277 1900 AC&F burn 1930
26A 2278 1900 AC&F to CTA
26A 2279 1900 AC&F retired 1942
26C 2280 1900 AC&F to CTA (Reinf)
— 2281 1900 AC&F ret by 1912 (see group 27)
26A 2282 1900 AC&F burn 1930
26A 2283 1900 AC&F to CTA

26B 2284 1900 AC&F to CTA (Reinf)
26A 2285 1900 AC&F burn 1930
26A 2286 1900 AC&F to CTA
26A 2287 1900 AC&F burn 1930
26A 2140:2 1900 AC&F to CTA
27 2281 1912 MWSE to CTA (Control)
28A 2288 1900 AC&F retired 1924 (Control)
28A 2289 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control)
28B 2290-2292 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28C 2293 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
— 2294-2296 1900 AC&F ret by 1901 (see group 29)
28B 2297-2299 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28A 2300 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control)
28C 2301 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28B 2302 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28A 2303 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control)
28A 2304 1900 AC&F retired 1940
28A 2305-2307 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control)
28C 2308 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28B 2309 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28A 2310 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control)
28B 2311 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28C 2500 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
— 2501-2502 1900 AC&F ret by 1901 (see group 29)
28C 2503 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28A 2504 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control)
— 2505 1900 AC&F ret by 1901 (see group 29)
28C 2506 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
— 2507 1900 AC&F ret by 1901 (see group 29)
28C 2508 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
28B 2509-2511 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2312 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29C 2313 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2314 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29B 2315 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29C 2316 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29B 2317-2319 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29C 2320-2324 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29B 2325 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29C 2326 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2327 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29C 2328 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29B 2329-2330 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29C 2331 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29B 2332 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29C 2333 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2334 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29B 2335-2337 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2338-2339 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29C 2340 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29B 2512 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2513-2515 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29C 2516 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2517 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29B 2518 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)

29A 2519-2520 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29B 2294-2295:2 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
29A 2296:2 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29A 2501-2502:2 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29A 2505:2 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control)
29B 2507:2 1901 AC&F to CTA (Control, Reinf)
30 4311-4330 1922 Cincinnati to CTA
31 4376-4395 1924 Cincinnati to CTA

101 4129-4169 1915 Cincinnati to CTA
102 4067-4087 1913 Cincinnati to CTA
103 1789-1808 1907 AC&F to CTA
104 1769-1788 1908 Pullman to CTA
105 1735-1768 1906 Jewett to CTA
106 1700-1731 1903 St Louis to CTA
106 1732 1903 St Louis retired 1944
106 1733-1734 1903 St Louis to CTA
107 1053-1059 1901 St Louis to CTA
108 1048-1052 1900 AC&F to CTA
109 1038-1047 1900 AC&F to CTA
110 1001-1003 1898 Pullman to CTA
110 1004 1898 Pullman retired 1945
110 1005-1011 1898 Pullman to CTA
110 1012 1898 Pullman retired 1924, to S-106
110 1013-1037 1898 Pullman to CTA
111A 1270-1279 1907 AC&F to CTA
111B 1278 1907 AC&F to CTA (Control)
111A 1279 1907 AC&F to CTA
— 1280-1299 1907 AC&F rb to 1789-1808 1913
112 1260-1269 1907 AC&F to CTA (Control)
113 1235-1239 1901 St Louis to CTA
113 1240 1901 St Louis burn 1930
113 1241-1259 1901 St Louis to CTA
114A 1211-1219 1900 AC&F to CTA
114B 1220 1900 AC&F to CTA (Reinf)
114A 1221 1900 AC&F ret by 1915 (see group 116)
114A 1222-1228 1900 AC&F to CTA
114A 1229 1900 AC&F burn 1930
114A 1230-1234 1900 AC&F to CTA
115 1210 1900 AC&F to CTA (Control)
116 1221 1915 NWER to CTA (Control)
117 1200 1898 Pullman ret by 1916 (see group 118)
117 1201-1209 1898 Pullman to CTA
118 1200 1916 NWER to CTA (Control, Reinf)
119D 1100-1144 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
119A 1145-1158 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control)
119A 1159 1898 Pullman retired 1936
119A 1160-1163 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control)
119A 1164 1898 Pullman retired 1936
119A 1165-1179 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control)
119D 1180 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
119C 1181 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
119A 1182-1188 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control)
119D 1189 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
119A 1190-1199 1898 Pullman to CTA (Control)

119B not used
120 4001-4022 1914 Cincinnati to CTA
121 4251-4280 1922 Cincinnati to CTA
122 4396-4425 1924 Cincinnati to CTA

201 4170-4209 1915 Cincinnati to CTA
202 4088-4108 1913 Cincinnati to CTA
203 321-327 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 328 1905 AC&F retired 1937
203 329-331 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 332 1905 AC&F retired 1940
203 333-361 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 362 1905 AC&F retired 1940
203 363-364 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 365 1905 AC&F retired 1943
203 366-375 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 376 1905 AC&F retired 1926
203 377-382 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 383 1905 AC&F retired 1940
203 384-385 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 386 1905 AC&F retired 1926
203 387-393 1905 AC&F to CTA
203 394 1905 AC&F retired 1935
203 395-400 1905 AC&F to CTA
204 251-266 1905 Jewett to CTA
204 267 1905 Jewett retired 1926
204 268-299 1905 Jewett to CTA
204 300 1905 Jewett retired 1940
204 301-320 1905 Jewett to CTA
205 231-250 1903 Jewett to CTA
206 211-216 1902 Jewett to CTA
206 217 1902 Jewett retired 1934
206 218-221 1902 Jewett to CTA
206 222 1902 Jewett retired 1929
206 223-230 1902 Jewett to CTA
207 181-184 1900 Jewett to CTA
207 185 1900 Jewett retired 1929
207 186-187 1900 Jewett to CTA
207 188 1900 Jewett retired 1929
207 189-202 1900 Jewett to CTA
207 203 1900 Jewett retired 1934
207 204-210 1900 Jewett to CTA
208 1-2 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 4-6 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 8-9 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 11-13 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 15-16 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 17 1892 J&S retired 1924
208 18 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 20 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 22-28 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 30-33 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 36 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 39-40 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 41 1892 J&S retired 1924

208 42-44 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 45 1892 J&S retired 1929
208 46 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 48-50 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 81-82 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 84-85 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 87 1892 J&S retired 1934
208 88 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 90 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 92 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 93 1892 J&S retired 1915
208 94 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 97-98 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 100 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 151-153 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 154 1892 J&S retired 1934
208 155-159 1892 J&S retired 1937
208 161-179 1892 J&S retired 1937
209 51-52 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 54-55 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 56 1892 Gilbert retired 1924
209 57-59 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 60 1892 Gilbert retired 1924
209 61 1892 Gilbert retired 1934
209 62-63 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 65 1892 Gilbert retired 1926
209 66 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 69-73 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 75-77 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 78 1892 Gilbert retired 1924
209 79-80 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 101-116 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 118-123 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 125-142 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
209 144-150 1892 Gilbert retired 1937
210 4023-4044 1913 Cincinnati to CTA
211 3 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 7 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 10 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 14 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 19 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 21 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 29 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 34-35 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 37-38 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 47 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 83 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 86 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 89 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 91 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 95-96 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 99 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 160 1892 J&S retired 1927
211 180 1892 J&S retired 1927
212 53 1892 Gilbert retired 1927

212 64 1892 Gilbert retired 1927
212 67-67 1892 Gilbert retired 1927
212 74 1892 Gilbert retired 1927
212 101 1892 Gilbert retired 1927
212 117 1892 Gilbert retired 1927
212 124 1892 Gilbert retired 1927
212 143 1892 Gilbert retired 1927
213 4281-4310 1922 Cincinnati to CTA
214 4426-4455 1924 Cincinnati to CTA

301 3147-3157 1909 Brill to CTA
301 3158 1909 Brill burn 1944, to flat S-16
301 3159-3166 1909 Brill to CTA
302 3139-3146 1901 St Louis to CTA
— 3101-3102 1894 Pullman ret by 1902 (see group 304)
303 3103-3105 1894 Pullman to CTA
— 3106 1894 Pullman ret by 1924
303 3107-3108 1894 Pullman to CTA
— 3109 1894 Pullman ret by 1924
303 3110-3116 1894 Pullman to CTA
303 3117 1894 Pullman retired 1944
303 3118 1894 Pullman to CTA
— 3119 1894 Pullman ret by 1902 (see group 304)
303 3120-3123 1894 Pullman to CTA
303 3124 1894 Pullman retired 1946
303 3125 1894 Pullman to CTA
303 3126-3138 1893 Gilbert to CTA (see note)
304 3101-3102:2 1902 St Louis to CTA
304 3119:2 1902 St Louis to CTA
305C 3001 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control,Reinf)
305E 3002-3004 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
— 3005 1893 Gilbert retired 1913
305E 3006 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3007 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3008-3010 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305D 3011 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Pneu doors)
— 3012 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305B 3013 1893 Gilbert to CTA
— 3014 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305E 3015 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3016-3017 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3018 1893 Gilbert retired 1944 (Reinf)
305B 3019-3021 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305A 3022 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control)
305B 3023 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3024 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3025-3027 1893 Gilbert to CTA
— 3028 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305E 3029-3030 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305C 3031 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control,Reinf)
305E 3032 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
— 3033 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305E 3034 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3035-3036 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3037-3038 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)

— 3039 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305E 3040-3046 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3047 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3048-3050 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305C 3051 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control,Reinf)
305B 3052 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3053 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3054 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305B 3055 1893 Gilbert retired 1929
— 3056 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305E 3057 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305C 3058 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control,Reinf)
305E 3059-3062 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
— 3063 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305B 3064 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3065-3066 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305C 3067 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control,Reinf)
305E 3068-3070 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
— 3071-3072 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305B 3073 1893 Gilbert to CTA
— 3074-3075 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305E 3076 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3077-3079 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3080 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3081 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3082 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305B 3083 1893 Gilbert to CTA
— 3084-3085 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305E 3086 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305C 3087 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control,Reinf)
305E 3088 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
305A 3089 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Control)
305E 3090 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
— 3091 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305B 3092 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305E 3093-3094 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
— 3095 1893 Gilbert retired by 1913 (see note)
305B 3096-3098 1893 Gilbert to CTA
305B 3099 1893 Gilbert retited 1944
305E 3100 1893 Gilbert to CTA (Reinf)
306D 3201 1900 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
306B 3202 1900 Pullman to CTA
306A 3203-3204 1900 Pullman to CTA (Control)
306B 3205-3209 1900 Pullman to CTA
306A 3210 1900 Pullman to CTA (Control)
306C 3211 1900 Pullman to CTA (Control, Reinf)
306B 3212 1900 Pullman to CTA
306A 3213-3214 1900 Pullman to CTA (Control)
306B 3215 1900 Pullman to CTA
307A 3216-3221 1901 St Louis to CTA
307B 3222 1901 St Louis to CTA (Control)
307C 3223 1901 St Louis to CTA (Control, Reinf)
307A 3224-3225 1901 St Louis to CTA
307C 3226 1901 St Louis to CTA (Control, Reinf)
307A 3227-3232 1901 St Louis to CTA

307A 3233 1901 St Louis retired 1940
307A 3234 1901 St Louis to CTA
307B 3235 1901 St Louis to CTA (Control)
308B 3236 1902 C&OP to CTA (Control, Reinf)
308A 3237 1902 C&OP to CTA
308B 3238 1902 C&OP to CTA (Control, Reinf)
309 4331-4355 1922 Cincinnati to CTA
310 4356-4375 1924 Cincinnati to CTA

note – 12 of 3001-3100 series rebuilt 1896, renumbered 3126-3137.
One additional 3000 rebuilt to motor 3138 1897. One of
3101-3138 series retired 1900, one retired 1904, both
replaced by motorizing two additional 3000’s by 1908.

Andre Kristopans writes:

I am sending you in a series of emails the list of CTA AFE/AFR’s from 1947 thru 1978. They are a fascinating look into what the CTA did over the years. First number is the authorization number, the second is the completion report number. R numbers are rapid transit, S surface, G general office, and the few B numbers are Boulevard Division (1952-53 ex CMC). I trust you will find this of interest.

Yes, very much of interest. I would guess AFE means authorization for expense, while AFR is authorization for reimbursement.

CTA AFE/AFR 1948 series

S10000 canx 10 snow plow trucks
S10001 S677 Shop equipment
S10002 S32 Road equipment
S10003 canx Alterations Burnside CH
S10004 S1 Road equipment
S10005 S2 Auto #99
R10006 R89 Truck #712
R10007 R63 Fence – Wilson Av
R10008 canx Renew messenger wire
R10009 Office equipment
R10010 G8 Office equipment
R10011 G1 Office equipment
S10012 S414 Renew spec wk Halsted/Madison, rem W-S curve
S10013 S88 Renew track Pulaski Grand to Division
S10014 canx Electrical work Burnside CH
S10015 S188 Shop equipment
S10016 S8 Road equipment
S10017 S76 Road equipment
S10018 S183 Buses #6531-6630
S10019 S184 Buses #1700-1799, 3598-3697
S10020 G9 Office equipment
S10021 G10 Office equipment
S10022 G11 Office equipment
S10023 S270 Install E-S curve 119th/Michigan
R10024 G12 Office equipment
S10025 G13 Office equipment
S10026 canx Electrical equipment
S10027 S902 Paving – North Ave
S10028 S1797 Convert Blue Island CH for buses
S10029 S1737 Convert Archer CH for buses
S10030 S415 TB line 38th via Rockwell-Arcker-Kedzie to 51
S10031 S276 Paving – South Shops
S10032 S418 Electrical Work – 77th CH
S10033 S1089 Renew track for PCC’s 63rd Stony to Narragan
S10034 S231 Heater grid – Ardmore CH
S10035 S84 Renew track Milwaukee California to Maplewood
S10036 S309 Renew track Pulaski 26th to Ogden
S10037 S158 Renew track Grand Central Pk to Homan
S10038 canx Convert Archer CH for bus
S10039 canx Automobile
S10040 S1080 Remove line 21st Racine to Halsted
R10041 R22 Renew crossover deck Ashland LK
R10042 R110 Renew SB track Chicago to Grand NSM
R10043 R92 Renew NB track Grand to Chicago NSM
R10044 R25 Renew deck WB Southport to Paulina RV
R10045 R29 Renew deck EB Paulina to Southport RV
R10046 R28 Renew deck Madison LSQ
R10047 R23 Renew NB tracks N of Wilson NSM
R10048 R24 Renew SB tracks N of Wilson NSM
R10049 G39 Office furniture
R10050 R152 Replace wiring Jackson Park Tower
S10051 S79 Shop equipment
S10052 canx Addtl TB lines – North Av Gar yard

S10053 S272 Conv line for PCC’s 63rd Stony to Narragan
S10054 S343 Toilet – 63rd/Narragansett
S10055 S648 Electrical work – 69th CH
S10056 S698 Electrical work – Blue Island CH
S10057 S716 Conv bays 5 to 9,11 for buses – Archer CH
S10058 S616 Additions – North Ave TB bldg
S10059 S617 Locker & Lunch room – North Ave TB
S10060 S424 Inst N-E,W-S curves Racine/79, x-over S of 79
R10061 R112 Replace electrical cable
S10062 G14 Office equipment
S10063 Remove special work Pulaski/Division
S10064 S155 Renew special work Chicago/State
S10065 G17 Office equipment
S10066 S86 Renew track 47th Leavitt to Western
S10067 S232 Renew track Ashland 78 to 79
S10068 S85 Renew track 35th Emerald to Wallace
S10069 S553 Renew paving Kedzie CH
S10070 S106 Remove track Wells Viaduct n of Roosevelt
R10071 R26 Renew EB track California to Western HPK
R10072 R32 Renew deck Lake Transfer LSQ
R10073 R68 Windbreaks N plat – Lake Transfer LSQ
R10074 R91 Road machinery
R10075 R81 Telephone cable messenger & Hangers – Loop
R10076 R153 Install TIM Clark/Van Buren Inner
R10077 R27 Renew deck Grand Crossover LSQ
R10078 R77 Remove crossing gate equip – Gunderson DP
S10079 G15 Office equipment
S10080 S302 Install N-NE curve Pulaski/Ogden
S10081 S371 Renew track Milwaukee Cicero to Kilpatrick
R10082 R50 Renew deck EB & WB Grand to Chicago LSQ
R10083 R30 Renew deck Tk 3 42nd to Prairie SSM
S10084 G16 Office equipment
S10085 S511 Shop equipment
S10086 S612 Shop equipment
S10087 S1102 Alterations to 69th CH for PCC’s
S10088 S35 Shop equipment
S10089 S1486 Track alterations for PCC’s 69th CH
S10090 S243 Inst MOEC N-E,W-S curves Racine/79th
S10091 S150 Inst elec switch N-NE curve Pulaski/Ogden
S10092 canx Shop equipment
S10093 canx Bus storage bays – Archer CH
R10094 R31 Relay EB & WB Western HPK
R10095 R33 Relay NB Chicago NSM
R10096 R35 Relay SB Chicago NSM
R10097 R36 Replace switch safety stub SB Chicago NSM
R10098 R38 Relay EB & WB Leavitt RV
R10099 R129 Renew deck NB & SB Addison to Irving Pk RV
R10100 R131 Renew EB &WB Addison RV
S10101 S130 Renew track State 43 to 46
S10102 S599 Alterations to 69th CH for PCC’s
S10103 S336 Renew track Milwaukee Belmont to Pulaski
S10104 S239 Renew track Lincoln Armitage to Belden
S10105 S370 Shop Equipment
S10106 S31 Auto #550A, retire auto #76
S10107 S101 Fluorescent light fixtures

S10108 G27 Office furniture
S10109 S71 Steam boiler – Division/Elm
S10110 S138 Oil burner – Limits
S10111 canx Road equipment
S10112 S186 Lift truck – S Shops
S10113 S99 Scrap fare registers
R10114 R71 RT cars #5003-5004
R10115 R72 Inspection #5003-5004
R10116 R370 Engineering #6001-6130
R10117 R56 Office equipment
R10118 R136 Cable for ABS Howard to Morse NSM
R10119 R135 Signal cable – 61st Interlocking
R10120 R37 Renew deck 49th SSM
R10121 R48 Renew deck 61st SSM
R10122 R47 Renew deck 61st SSM
S10123 S36 Shop equipment
S10124 S80 Toilet – 79th/Halsted
S10125 S178 Shop equipment
S10126 S123 Shop equipment
S10127 S134 Shop equipment
S10128 S75 Shop equipment
S10129 S259 Shop equipment
S10130 S388 Shop equipment
S10131 S141 Shop equipment
S10132 S100 Tractor
S10133 canx Office equipment
S10134 G22 Office furniture
S10135 S208 Conv line for PCC State Division to Grand
S10136 S208 Conv line for PCC State Lake to 95
S10137 S208 Conv line for PCC Wabash Grand to Lake
S10138 S208 Conv line for PCC Lake Wabash to State
S10139 S208 Conv line for PCC Michigan 95 to 119
S10140 S208 Conv line for PCC Devon Western to Broadway
S10141 S208 Conv line for PCC Broadway Devon to Clark
S10142 S29 Shop equipment
S10143 S214 Tfr 89 trailers, 82 salt, 2 PCC to service
S10144 S144 Renew rail Milwaukee Viaduct S of Kinzie
S10145 S87 Rem MOEC N-SW curve Western/Archer
S10146 S95 Rem elec sw NE-S curve Archer/Western
S10147 S98 Autos #544A-545A
S10148 S273 Motor operated doors CH’s
R10149 S252 Fire extinguishers
S10150 S34 Trucks #165-167
S10151 S30 Autos #91-92
S10152 S133 Autos #82,84
S10153 S152 Shop equipment
S10154 S37 Scrap 100 streetcars
S10155 S689 Retire 77 gas buses
S10156 S368 Remove ine Taylor Western to Jefferson
S10157 S212 Storage tanks – Limits CH
S10158 S195 Transmitter – Madison/Austin
S10159 G34 Office equipment
S10160 S154 Shop equipment
R10161 R84 3rd Rail inclines
R10162 R54 Road machinery

R10163 R120 Renew deck Leavitt to Irving Park NB
R10164 R83 Replace 3rd rail NSM
R10165 R80 Renew deck Lincoln to end of structure RV
S10166 Conv to TB Montrose Narragnsett to Broadway
S10167 S299 Renew elec sw SE-S curve Milw/California
S10168 G45 Office furniture
S10169 S149 Renew line Roosevelt Austin to Kenton
S10170 S765 Renew TB line Belmont Pacific to Central
S10171 S876 Conv to TB Belmont Central to Halsted
S10172 S548 Rearrange feeders Limits CH
S10173 S658 Lighting – Roosevelt/Grant Pk term
S10174 S241 Lighting – State/63rd, State/84th terms
S10175 S197 Renew line PROW E of W Shops Wash to Lake
S10176 S1119 Beverly Garage
S10177 S941 Remove line Wells Harrison to Roosevelt
S10178 S557 Remove line Racine Fullerton to Armitage
S10179 Conv to TB 51st Central Pk to Cottage Grove
S10180 Conv to TB Harper 55th to 56th
S10181 S325 Office furniture
S10182 S208 Conv line for PCC Grand State to Wabash
S10183 S83 Renew track Milwaukee Armitage to Maplewood
S10184 G29 Office furniture
S10185 S227 Renew TB trough Cicero/Harrison
S10186 S96 Remove MOEC N-W curve Ashland/59
S10187 S366 Remove line Webster Lincoln to Racine
S10188 canx Renew line Lake Laramie to Austin
S10189 canx Renew MH’s Randolph River Bridge to Lake
S10190 canx Remove line Canal Canalport to Halsted
S10191 S228 Renew trough Western/Kinzie
S10192 S118 Shop equipment
S10193 S1206 Remove line Polk Canal to Wells
S10194 S408 Remove line Hubbard Orleans to Wells
S10195 S471 Remove line Kinzie Orleans to Wells
S10196 S472 Remove line Kingsbury Chicago to Erie
S10197 S473 Remove line Erie Kingsbury to Franklin
S10198 S768 Remove line Fulton Western to Morgan
S10199 S333 Remove line Morgan Fulton to Monroe
S10200 S334 Remove line Monroe Morgan to Clinton
S10201 S208 Conv line for PCC 119 Mich to Morgan Loop
S10202 S208 Conv line for PCC 95th State to Michigan
S10203 S208 Conv line for PCC Division Clark to State
S10204 S475 Remove line Orleans Division to Kinzie
S10205 S476 Remove line Franklin Chicago to Kinzie
S10206 S886 Remove line 21st Throop to Marshall
S10207 S477 Remove line Sedgwick Lincoln to Chicago
R10208 R55 Road machinery
S10209 S132 Shop equipment
S10210 S160 Storage tank – 77th CH
S10211 S409 Renew x-over Milwaukee N of Belmont
S10212 S105 Remove x-over Clybourn S of Belmont
S10213 S135 Shop furniture
S10214 canx Renew TB line Narragansett Cuyler to North
S10215 S104 Lighting – Cottage Grove CH
S10216 G18 Office furniture
S10217 G28 Office furniture

S10218 S94 Rem elec sw S-E curve State/61st
S10219 S93 Rem elec sw N-W curve State/59th
S10220 Conv to TB 55th Cottage Grove to Lake Park
S10221 Conv to TB Cottage Grove 51 to 55
S10222 S157 Remove special work Cottage Grove/31st
S10223 S767 Remove line Southport Irving Pk to Cortland
S10224 G19 Office furniture
S10225 Conv to TB Lake Park 56 to 55
S10226 Conv to TB 56th Harper to Lake Park
S10227 S3 Truck chassis #162-163
S10228 S357 Renew RR xings Grand/Kingsbury (MILW)
S10229 S109 Shop equipment
S10230 S33 Shop equipment
S10231 S1151 Rem feeder Clybourn Belmont to Fullerton,
Webster to Division
S10232 S394 Conv line for PCC 79/Western,Oakley,Ashland
S10233 S156 Remove special work State/31st
R10234 R44 Renew deck Western X-overs RV
R10235 R60 Renew deck Leavitt RV
R10236 R49 Renew deck Elm Tk 1 NSM
R10237 R51 Renew deck Leavitt RV
R10238 R52 Renew deck Hudson Tk 1 NSM
R10239 R145 Renew deck Merchandise Mart SB NSM
R10240 R53 Renew deck Logan Sqare LSQ
S10241 S131 Office furniture
S10242 S446 Renew line Halsted 23rd to Pershing
S10243 S559 Concrete floor W Shops
S10244 S193 Shop equipment
R10245 R57 Office equipment
R10246 R87 Renew canopy over sidewalk Montrose RV
R10247 R42 Renew deck Logan Sq LSQ
R10248 R43 Renew deck Dayton Tk 1 NSM
R10249 R46 Relay Tk 2 Wells/VAn Buren
R10250 R69 Renew deck Washtenaw to Francisco WB GPK
R10251 R58 Renew deck Halsted Tk 1 NSM
R10252 R45 Renew guard rail Wells/Van Buren, Lake/Wabash
S10253 S97 Shop equipment
S10254 S529 Renew line Kedzie CH west side
S10255 S406 Renew line Grand Kingsbury to Wabash
S10256 S752 Shop equipment
S10257 S457 Renew track Western Granville to Devon
S10258 S433 Renew track Western Catalpa to Peterson
S10259 S110 Pave Torrence/112 loop
S10260 S151 Remove tracks Torrence/112 loop
S10261 G66 Office equipment
S10262 canx Power & Lights – Limits CH
S10263 G30 Office equipment
S10264 S77 Trucks #573-575
S10265 S606 Inst sw lever N-E Clinton/Van Buren,W-N Harr/
Wells,NE-S & N-SW Western/Archer,W-S Adams/
Clinton,E-N Adams/Franklin.S-E Ashland/Erie,
N-W Ashland/59,N-W State/59,S-E State/61
S10266 S42 Retire truck #125
S10267 S40 Retire truck #120
S10268 S41 Retire truck #138

S10269 S43 Retire truck #143
S10270 S44 Retire truck #544
S10271 canx Relocate feeders Wentworth Pershing to Garfield
S10272 G20 Office furniture
S10273 G21 Office equipment
S10274 S1082 Renew line North Av CH yard
R10275 R74 Install TVM State/Van Buren
R10276 R76 Wiring for TVM Lake Transfer WB, start lites
Marion LK
R10277 R59 Relay Kilbourn GPK
R10278 R61 Relay T3 63rd/Calumet SSM
R10279 R64 Relay NB 40/Prairie SSM
R10280 R334 RT CArs #6001-6130
R10281 R121 Balcony Logan Sq Shop
R10282 R82 Office furniture
R10283 R62 Relay T1 63rd/Calumet SSM
S89284 S892 Remove line Harrison Central to Halsted
R10285 R104 Remove Menard, Lombard platforms LK
S10286 canx Regulators
R10287 R70 Remove Market St Stub LK
S10288 G46 Office equipment
S10289 S253 Move poles 79/Ashland
S10290 S179 Move poles 79/Western
S10291 S140 Storage tank – Ardmore
S10292 canx Lighting – W Shops
S10293 S224 Radiator shutters
S10294 S590 Lighting – W Shops
S10295 S649 Rehab Power – W Shops
S10296 S650 Yard lighting – S Shops
S10297 S615 Shop equipment
S10298 S161 Shop equipment
R10299 R115 Aux entrance at Mayfield to Austin LK
S10300 S421 Ad sign card frames – 645 buses
S10301 S230 Renew track Western Belmont to River Bridge
S10302 G2 Office equipment
S10303 S268 Shop equipment
S10304 S107 Scrap shop equipment
S10305 G31 Legal books
S10306 G55 Office furniture
S10307 S137 Truck chassis #173, 577
S10308 S120 Trucks #170, 174, retire truck #146
S10309 S111 Storage tank Lawndale CH
S10310 G24 Office equipment
S10311 S242 Shop equipment
S10312 S127 Shop equipment
S10313 S277 Shop furniture
S10314 S103 Shop furniture
S10315 S121 Shop equipment
S10316 S102 Shop equipment
S10317 S218 Shop equipment
S10318 S108 Heating units – W Shops
S10319 S136 Bus stop signs Division Central Pk to Austin
S10320 S166 Twin Coach parts
S10321 S798 Power & light – W Shops
S10322 S145 Shop equipment
ŠS10323 S247 Shop equipment
S10324 S162 Remove track 63 Pl Oak Park to Archer
S10325 G23 Office equipment
S10326 S226 Rem NW-W,E-SE curves Lincoln/Webster
S10327 S359 Install levers S-W Wabash/Harr, N-W Stony/63
S10328 S147 Ventilation – 77th CH
R10329 R79 Retire RT car #2927
S10330 G47 Office equipment
S10331 G52 Office equipment
S10332 S458 Building alterations – W Shops
S10333 S335 16th/47th Ct terminal
S10334 S365 Devon/Kedzie terminal
S10335 S445 Remove special work Wells/Illinois
S10336 S177 Retire 100 streetcars
S10337 S426 Renew RR xings Cermak/Peoria (CB&Q)
S10338 S176 Retire 100 streetcars
S10339 S164 Remove elec sw S-W Wabash/Harrison
S10340 G26 Office equipment
S10341 S89 Install elec sw E-S Madison/LaSalle
S10342 G60 Office furniture
S10343 S425 Renew RR xings Cermak/Union (CB&Q)
S10344 S356 Renew track N-W curve Indiana/18th
S10345 S173 Retire work cars #J1, J205, A202
S10346 R114 Retire RT cars #181, 3125, 1177, 2293, 3235
S10347 S898 Line in Western/Berwyn, Western/79 terminals
S10348 G65 Office furniture
S10349 S558 Office equipment
S10350 S1055 6 tower bodies for #162-164, 567-569
S10351 S1326 Truck #578
S10352 S770 Truck #583
S10353 canx Truck #582
S10354 canx Truck #581
S10355 S119 Retire trucks #122, 542
S10356 S432 Renew deck Milwaukee Viaduct S of Kinzie
S10357 S347 Remove MOEC N-W Stony Island/63
S10358 S777 Remove line Devon Kedzie to Western
S10359 S459 Remove elec sw W-S 79/Exchange
S10360 S346 Remove elec sw W-S 63/Dorchester
S10361 S92 Remove elec sw N-E Commercial/92
S10362 S91 Remove elec sw S-SE Commercial/S Chicago
S10363 S90 Remove elec sw W-S 92/Commercial
S10364 S225 Remove line 63 Pl Archer to Narragansett
S10365 S420 New doors S Shops
S10366 canx Lighting W Shops
R10367 R138 Conv stations for PFOT LSQ, HPK
S10368 S233 Move pole Clark/Congress
S10369 S618 Western/79th terminal
S10370 S600 Western/Birchwood terminal
S10371 G53 Office furniture
S10372 S171 Sell property 76th/Wentworth
S10373 S165 Buy property 79th/Claremont
S10374 G33 Office equipment
S10375 S547 Renew track Clark LaSalle to Wells
S10376 canx Line truck chassis
S10377 S112 Retire truck #547

S10378 S651 Electrical equip W Shops
S10379 S311 Fare register stands for PCC’s
S10380 S675 Spare parts for PCC’s
S10381 S732 Spare parts for PCC’s
S10382 S349 Spare parts for buses
S10383 S199 Spare parts for buses
S10384 S200 Radiator shutters
S10385 S244 Scrap shop equipment
S10386 S142 Shop equipment
S10387 S223 Lighting for Torrence/112 loop
S10388 S611 Addl TB lines Central/Avondale Yard
R10389 R157 600V switches Kimball Yd
R10390 R238 Lights Armitage Jct NSM
R10391 R130 Lights 17 Jct SSM
R10392 R66 Renew deck Wells Terminal
R10393 R206 Renew footwalk Western to Fullerton LSQ
R10394 R65 Renew deck Wells Terminal
R10395 R123 Replace x-over Laramie Yd
R10396 R126 Renew cable box SSM
R10397 R119 Renew deck Western WB GPK
R10398 R67 Renew guard rail SB T2 40th/Prairie NSM
R10399 R117 Renew footwalk NSM
R10400 R222 Renew footwalk, cable box RV
S10401 S894 6 line truck bodies for #159-161,173,566,577
R10402 R122 Relay EB & WB Market LK
S10403 G35 Office equipment
S10404 S1606 Rearrange leads 77th CH bays 4-5 west end
S10405 S613 Renew track Armitage/Clark
S10406 S292 Renew track Western/Lincoln
S10407 S1387 North Park Garage
S10408 S236 Trolley buses #203-412
S10409 S185 Buses #2420,2500-2545,3573-3597
S10410 S131 Shop equipment
S10411 canx Scrap shop equipment
S10412 S258 Retire 200 streetcars
S10413 S113 Retire truck #556
S10414 S198 Automatic electric drain switch North Av Sub
S10415 S626 Replace line State Kinzie to Wacker
S10416 G25 Shop equipment
S10417 G41 Office equipment
R10418 R161 Shop equipment
R10420 R93 Road equipment
R10421 R75 Shop equipment
R10422 R163 Shop equipment
R10423 R181 Add and scrap shop equipment
S10424 G36 Office equipment
S10425 S246 Move x-over S of Irving Pk to N of Waveland
on Cicero
S10426 S275 Remove RR xings 73/Exchange, Exchange/74, 75/
Exchange (ICRR)
S10427 S360 Shop equipment
S10428 S266 Shop equipment
S10429 S126 Shop equipment
S10430 S519 Shop equipment
S10431 S125 Shop equipment
ŠS10432 S222 Shop equipment
S10433 S146 Shop equipment
S10434 S462 Shop equipment
S10435 S377 Shop equipment
S10436 S168 Shop equipment
S10437 S323 Shop equipment
S10438 S280 Shop equipment
S10439 S279 Shop equipment
S10440 S122 Shop equipment
S10441 S303 Lighting & Power W Shops
S10442 S614 Material Bins – S Shops
S10443 S340 Renew track Grand Homan to Kedzie
S10444 S450 Remove special work Wells/Kinzie, exc S-E
S10445 S319 Remove x-over Lincoln S of Belmont
S10446 S1893 Car & bus washers 69th, Archer, 77th Gars
R10447 R141 Run number plate brackets on RT cars – Met,LK
S10448 S167 Inst lever N-E Commercial/92
S10449 S372 Ren line Western Archer to 79, inst elec sw
N-W Western/Berwyn Loop
S10450 S304 Renew feeder Cottage Grove 55 to 60
S10451 S153 Shop equipment
S10452 S159 Shop equipment
S10453 canx Office furniture
S10454 S278 Office furniture
S10455 G54 Office furniture
S10456 G43 Office furniture
S10457 canx Office furniture
S10458 canx Office furniture
S10459 S124 Tractor crane
S10460 S994 Conv to TB North Av Narragansett to Clark
S10461 S367 Shop equipment
S10462 S219 Shop equipment
S10463 S187 Shop equipment
S10464 S286 Shop equipment
S10465 S128 Shop equipment
S10466 G37 Office equipment
S10467 S1205 Remove line Western 79 to 111,Howard to Arthur,
Howard Western to Clark
S10468 G42 Office furniture
S10469 G62 Office furniture
S10470 S245 Remove RR xings 92/Baltimore (B&OCT)
S10471 S307 Replace trolley wire 79th Western to Ashland
S10472 S350 Trolley bus parts for #368-412
S10473 S512 Shop equipment
S10474 S143 Shop equipment
S10475 S194 Shop equipment
S10476 S584 Road equipment
S10477 canx Office equipment
S10478 G38 Office equipment
S10479 S191 Fire extinguishers
S10480 S399 Remove MOEC W-S Devon/Western
S10481 S358 Remove MOEC, inst lever W-S 79/Emerald
S10482 canx Scrap shop equipment
S10483 S172 Scrap 8 work cars
S10484 S520 Shop equipment

R10485 R339 Engineering – Dearborn Subway
R10486 R118 Renew deck EB Market St Tk 3 – Met Main
R10487 R133 Renew deck NB & SB Belmont NSM
R10488 R98 Renew deck switch 51A Upper Wilson NSM
R10489 R99 Relay switch 42 Montrose NSM
R10490 R96 Renew deck Upper Wilson Yard NSM
S10491 G48 Office equipment
S10492 S795 Remove line Archer via Pitney-31 to Lake Park
S10493 S595 Remove elec sw S-W Ashland/70
S10494 S345 Remove elec sw SW-S Archer/Kedzie,NE-N Archer/
Rockwell, SW-S Archer/Ashland
S10495 S413 Remove special work Western/Harrison
S10496 S401 Trolley bus parts for #323-412
S10497 S652 Electrical work – 77th CH doors
S10498 G52 Office equipment
S10499 G40 Office equipment
S10500 S238 Real estate – Western/Berwyn loop
S10501 G50 Office furniture
R10502 R111 Adapt GPK stations for PFOT Ogden to Cicero
S10503 S624 Install track State/wacker
S10504 S170 Remove RR xings Archer/Kenton (BRC)
S10505 S521 Remove track 71st Vincennes to Cottage Grove
S10506 S628 Remove special work Chicago/Orleans
S10507 S625 Repair fire damage Limits Gar 12/29/47 fire
S10508 S308 Renew line Chicago Kedzie to California
S10509 S395 Renew line Damen/Lincoln, Lawrence
S10510 S753 Time recorders
S10511 S201 Shop equipment
S10512 S522 Remove special work Cottage Grove/68
S10513 S654 Remove x-overs 63 E of Central, W of St Louis
S10514 S287 Shop equipment
S10515 S205 Phone stub pole Michigan/119th
S10516 S627 Lights & power North Av Gar TB & bus bldgs
S10517 S281 Shop equipment
S10518 S454 Remove elec sw E-NE Harrison/Fifth, W-SW Harr/
Blue Island, E-N Harr/Racine, N-W Harr/Wells
R10519 R85 Renew deck EB & WB Pulaski to Keeler LK
R10520 R156 Platform & canopy extension State/Van Buren
R10521 R189 Add 2nd booth Grand/State subway
S10522 S204 Phone stub pole State/84th
S10523 S814 Remove track Archer via Pitney-31 to Wentworth
S10524 S453 Renew special work Clark/Wells
S10525 S630 Renew special work Lamon/LeMoyne
S10526 S635 Remove special work Lincoln/Southport
S10527 R229 Crane #S-223
R10528 R147 Renew deck Wood to 18 EB & WB DPK
S10529 S392 Remove special work Chicago/Kingsbury
S10530 S532 Remove line Rosehill via Ravenswood-Balmoral-
Damen to Irving Park
S10531 S355 Move poles 31/Loomis,Lituanica,Wallace,C Grove
S10532 S523 Remove line 59 Ashland to State
S10533 S907 Remove track 59 Ashland to Halsted
S10534 S452 Remove track Damen Lawrence to Irving Park
S10535 S344 Move poles Pitney Archer to 31
S10536 S636 Remove special work Damen/69

S10537 S139 Retire truck #140
S10538 S215 Retire auto #67
S10539 S535 Scrap shop machinery
S10540 S216 Retire auto #520A
S10541 S254 Move pole Fifth/Homan
S10542 S217 Truck #576, retire truck #557
R10543 R155 Lights on platform ext – State/Van Buren
S10544 S587 445 “No Parking-Bus Stop” signs
S10545 S799 Remove track 31st Wentworth to Lake Park
R10546 R103 Replace DSS 34 Tk 2 Indiana SSM
R10547 R144 Cable Met Main
S10548 S306 Remove feeder Lake/Austin
S10549 canx Gas pump
S10550 S163 Real estate 79th/Western loop
S10551 S373 Real estate Pulaski/Archer garage
S10552 S397 Remove elec sw NE-N Archer/Western, N-E Clint/
Van Buren,W-B Adams/Clinton¬E-B Adams/Frankln
S10553 S376 Scrap shop machinery
S10554 S282 Shop equipment
S10555 S351 Shop equipment
S10556 S265 Shop equipment
S10557 S378 Shop equipment
S10558 S2049 Wheel lathes for 4 carhouses
S10559 S524 Scrap shop equipment
S10560 S310 Fire walls West Shops
S10561 S249 Shop equipment
S10562 canx Office equipment
S10563 G57 Office furniture
R10564 R113 Remove cable SSM
S10565 S240 Remove track 119 Vincennes to Ashland
S10566 S655 Inst levers W-S,N-E Roosevelt/Kedzie, N-W
Damen/Roosevelt
S10567 S528 Renew track Cottage Grove/Oakwood
S10568 S292 Remove x-over Western N of Lincoln
S10569 S1070 Conv to TB Irving Park Neenah to Broadway
S10570 S256 Bus parts – TDH4507
S10571 canx Brill trolley bus parts
S10572 S189 White bus parts
S10573 S585 Shop equipment
S10574 S1244 Shop equipment
S10575 S819 Electrical work – South Shops
R10576 R78 Scrap RT car #1009
R10577 R142 Equip 993 N&S Side cars with run sign brkts
S10578 S704 Remove part of spec wk Irving Pk/Southport
S10579 S174 Phone stub pole Devon/Western
S10580 S257 Retire 200 streetcars
R10581 R86 Relay switches 72-73 Lawndale DPK
R10582 R116 Conn to Goldblatt’s State/Van Buren
S10583 S374 Scrap shop equipment
S10584 S229 Replace pole
S10585 G49 Legal books
S10586 S341 Remove x-over Lawrence W of Keating
S10587 S1161 Remove track Polk Canal to River Bridge
R10588 R158 Replace wood poles
S10589 S449 Renew track Clark/Lincoln, remove S-W switch

S10590 S631 Renew line State/River Bridge
R10591 R165 Rewire 58th SSM
R10592 R137 Move agent booth to other side 58th SSM
R10593 G58 Office equipment
R10594 R300 Rail lubricators
S10595 G61 Office equipment
S10596 Renew track Cottage Grove/31
S10597 S203 Stub phone pole
S10598 canx Buses #2359-2419,2421-2433,3553-3572
S10599 S289 Shop equipment
S10600 S288 Shop equipment
S10601 S271 Shop equipment
S10602 S1583 Rem line 59 Central Pk to Ashland, 61 State to
Blackstone, Blackstone 61 to 60
S10603 G100 Office equipment
S10604 S560 Remove elec switch NW-N Lincoln/Damen
S10605 S391 Remove elec switch S-E,N-W Halsted/18
S10606 S398 Remove elec switch S-W Kedzie/16
S10607 S400 Remove elec sw N-E,W-S Roosevelt/Kedzie,S-W
Damen/14, N-W Damen/Roosevelt
S10608 S776 Remove special work Monroe/LaSalle
S10609 S410 Remove special work Clark/North
R10610 R101 Remove X-over, tower E of Austin – LK
R10611 R162 Replace air pipes 61st Interlocking SSM
S10612 S291 Renew feeder
S10613 S1103 Replace TB line North Av Gar yard
S10614 S210 Exhaust fan wiring 77th CH
S10615 S264 Road equipment
S20216 S202 Phone conduit
S10617 S169 Scrap shop machinery
R10618 R109 Renew deck Harrison SSM
R10619 R134 Relay Central to Pine LK
R10620 R100 Relay Tks 1-2 Racine Met Main
R10621 R201 Ornamental lighting Broadway/Wilson
R10622 R154 Rebuild Forest Park overhead LK
S10623 G81 Office furniture
S10624 S513 Cab for forklift
S10625 S536 Shop equipment
R10626 G59 Office furniture
R10627 G56 Office furniture
R10628 G63 Office furniture
R10629 G64 Office furniture
R10630 G67 Office furniture
R10631 R159 Office furniture
S10632 S942 Remove line 73rd Stony Island to Exchange
S10633 S943 Remove line Exchange 73 to 75
S10634 G97 Office equipment
R10635 R160 Replace yard lite poles 61st Yard
R10636 R271 Train Room & Disp Bldg – Marion St LK
S10637 S909 Remove special work Wells/Washington
S10638 S1482 Renew track State Kinzie to River Bridge
R10639 R188 Scr Morgan,Racine,Damen,Oakley,Campbell,
Sacramento,Kostner stations LK
S10640 S211 Gasoline tank Avondale Yd
S10641 S1016 Remove feeder

S10642 S301 Guard Rails on Pit – North Ave Bay 2
R10643 R107 Addl bottle gas heat for N&S Portal towers NS
S10644 S206 Scrap shop equipment
S10645 S448 Crane – 39th/Halsted Yard
S10646 G96 Office equipment
S10647 G71 Office equipment
S10648 G80 Office equipment
S10649 G73 Office equipment
S10650 R94 Scrap RT cars 2812,2828 (burned)
S10651 G82 Office equipment
S10652 G116 Office furniture
S10653 S190 PCC Cars 339 of 4172-4411,7115-7274
S10654 G78 Office furniture
S10655 G77 Office furniture
S10656 G68 Office furniture
R10657 R90 Changers for conductors
S10658 S801 Renew feeder Lawndale CH
S10659 S326 Replace feeder
S10660 S632 Replace wood poles
S10661 S290 Replace wood pole
S10662 canx Stub phone pole 16/Homan
S10663 G51 Office furniture
S10664 S260 Replace feeder
S10665 S694 1000 Johnson K Fareboxes
S10666 S375 10,000,000 tokens
S10667 S237 Real estate for Forest Glen garage
S10668 S1094 Real estate Lincoln/Leland
S10669 S603 Ad sign card frames
S10670 S411 Renew track Madison Canal to Clinton
S10671 G69 Office equipment
S10672 S533 Remove N-W curve Stony Island/67
S10673 S696 Western/Leland terminal
S10674 S213 Install pole
S10675 S192 Replace pole
S10676 S676 Retire 200 street cars
S10677 R428 Real estate Western/Leland terminal
S10678 S537 Real estate Belmont/Halsted terminal
S10679 S438 Real estate Belmont/Octavia terminal
S10680 S439 Real estate Belmont/Hlasted terminal
S10681 S362 Shop equipment
S10682 S269 Parts for TDH4507 buses
S10683 S1638 Remove switches Randolph/LaSalle
S10684 S342 Renew trough Kedzie/Lake
S10685 canx Remove line 71st/Cottage Grove pocket
S10686 G72 Office furniture
S10687 R168 Permanent light & heater – Mayfield ent LK
S10688 R167 Lights Western/Leland terminal
R10689 R177 Renew deck Wells/Lake, Wells/Van Buren
R10690 R150 Renew deck Wells/Lake
S10691 S1069 Remove line Commercial 83 to 91
S10692 S1879 Remove line Throop-PROW 21 to 31
S10693 S1156 Remove line Exchange 79 to 83
S10694 S1009 Remove line Torrence 104 to 112
S10695 S1010 Remove line Commercial 93 to 104
S10696 S1188 Remove line Coles 75 to 79

S10697 S793 Remove line 75 Colfax to South Shore
S10698 S1290 Remove line Leavitt 18 to N of 24
S10699 S802 Remove line Morgan Pershing to 31
S10700 S958 Remove line Racine 21 to Van Buren
S10701 S986 Remove line 18 Leavitt to State
S10702 S792 Remove line 26 Halsted to Cottage Grove
S10703 S329 Remove line Sangamon Hubbard to Adams
S10704 S474 Remove line Anthony 93 to Commercial
S10705 S330 Remove line Hubbard Racine to Sangamon
S10706 S331 Remove line Racine Erie to Hubbard
S10707 S332 Remove line Erie Ashland to Racine
S10708 S1017 Remove line 38 Central Park to Kedzie
S10709 S1573 Remove line 14 Damen to Canal
S10710 S659 Install TB line Belmont Pacific to Cumberland,
install loop Belmont/Octavia
S10711 S1155 Remove line 104 Torrence to Commercial
S10712 S220 Retire truck #136
S10713 S221 Retire auto #69
R10714 R124 Retire 99 RT trailer cars
R10715 G74 Office furniture
S10716 S294 Angle guards Bay 11 North Ave
S10717 S300 Move electric switch box Adams/Wabash
S10718 S877 Remove special work Western/21
S10719 S534 Remove x-over Kedzie N of Taylor
S10720 S255 Auto #100
R10721 R139 Office equipment
S10722 S526 Shop equipment
S10723 G79 Office furniture
R10724 R169 Add signs at Loop stations, A-B signs LK
S10725 S660 Bus terminal Belmont/Cumberland
S10726 S1558 Bus terminal Belmont/Halsted
S10727 S274 Remove RR xings 104/Torrence (CRI&P)
S10728 S690 Retire 49 buses
S10729 S744 Bus terminal Belmont/Octavia
S10730 S509 Renew deck Chicago River Bridge
S10731 S248 Auto #552A
S10732 S554 Renew track Roosevelt Ogden to Western
S10733 S858 Overnite heaters Avondale Yard
S10734 S283 Shop equipment
S10735 S976 Shop equipment
S10736 S352 Office equipment
R10737 R108 Relay Forest Park terminal LK
R10738 R143 2 manual sidewalk gates, Central LK
R10739 R105 Replace 2 x-overs with diamond Forest Pk LK
R10740 R192 Install 3rd rail Forest Pk LK
S10741 G76 Office furniture
S10742 S263 Shop equipment
S10743 S1095 5 new tower bodies for #176,177,563,579,580
R10744 R88 Shop equipment
S10745 S918 Remove S-SW curve Madison/Ogden
S10746 S749 Remove line Brandon 79 to 83
S10747 S910 Remove tracks Carpenter Shop W Shops midd bay
S10748 S348 Remove elec switch NW-W Elston/Irving Pk,
W-S Irving Pk/Ashland, E-N Irving Pk/Southpt,
E-S Irving Pk/Clark

S10749 S549 Rem line 83 Brandon to Burley
S10750 S911 Retire tracks 3,4,5 Carp Shop W Shops
S10751 S481 Retire truck #132
R10752 R95 Scrap shop equipment
S10753 S912 Locker & Wash rooms – West Shops
G10754 canx Print bonds
S10755 S463 5 sand spreaders for #166,167,169,170,574
S10756 S1096 35 snow plows, retire 20 old plows
S10757 S723 Remove special work Blue Island/21
S10758 S293 Shop equipment
S10759 S250 Replace wood pole
S10760 S791 Replace poles PROW s of Wentworth/79
S10761 S284 Office equipment
R10762 R132 Relay switches 84 and LM1 Racine EN
R10763 R97 Relay curve Lincoln/Paulina RV
R10764 R193 Remodel Wells St Terminal 1st flr for Barber
S10765 S556 Reinforce bumpers ACF/Brill gas & troll buses
S10766 S419 Remove special work Halsted/Monroe
S10767 S416 Remove special work Cortland/Southport
S10768 S405 Replace feeder
S10769 S530 Remove x-over trolley 63 E of Central
S10770 S261 Shop equipment
S10771 S296 Stub phone pole 16/Central Pk
S10772 S320 Shop equipment
G10773 G92 Office furniture
G10774 G75 Office furniture
S10775 S441 Real estate Ardmore/Broadway
G10776 G70 Office furniture
S10777 S387 Road machinery
S10778 S389 Timestarter for S Shops Power House
S10779 S822 Real estate North/Narragansett
S10780 S1194 Move x-over Ashland N of 70 to 69 W of
Marshfield

CTA AFR/AFE 1949 SERIES

G11000 G103 Office furniture
G11001 G83 Office furniture
G11002 G89 Office furniture
S11003 S422 Road equipment
S11004 S678 Shop equipment
S11005 S679 Shop equipment
S11006 S754 Shop equipment
S11007 S353 Shop equipment
S11008 S637 Shop equipment
S11009 S324 Shop equipment
S11010 S638 Shop equipment
S11011 S823 Shop equipment
S11012 S705 Shop equipment
S11013 S586 Shop equipment
S11014 S755 Shop equipment
S11015 S379 Shop equipment
S11016 S427 Shop equipment
S11017 S315 Office furniture
S11018 S354 Shop equipment
S11019 S338 Shop equipment
S11020 S314 Shop equipment
S11021 S538 Shop equipment
S11022 S337 Shop equipment
S11023 S339 Shop equipment
S11024 S285 Shop equipment
S11025 S639 Shop equipment
S11026 S313 Shop equipment
S11027 S539 Shop equipment
S11028 S771 Shop equipment
S11029 S514 Shop equipment
S11030 S429 Books
S11031 S312 Office equipment
R11032 canx Relay x-over NSM
R11033 R127 Office furniture
R11034 R140 Office equipment
G11035 G110 Office equipment
G11036 G91 Office equipment
G11037 G93 Office equipment
S11038 S251 Office equipment
G11039 G114 Office equipment
R11040 R202 Relay Tk3 NB Pershing NSM
S11041 G84 Office furniture
S11042 S396 Remove x-over trolley Kedzie N of Taylor
S11043 S363 Office equipment
S11044 S700 Remove switch 59/Ashland
R11045 R106 Remove old coal track 40th NSM
S11046 S447 Lighting & power Limits CH
S11047 S515 Remove elec sw NW-W Lincoln/Belmont
S11048 S516 Remove elec sw E-SE Belmont/Lincoln
S11049 G85 Office equipment
S11050 S764 Office furniture
R11051 R245 Renew footwalk – Loop
R11052 R128 Relay Tk1 Grace St – NSM

R11053 R228 Renew cable box NSM
R11054 R223 Renew footwalk RV
S11055 S403 Renew feeder Ashland Erie to walton
S11056 S724 Shop equipment
S11057 S561 Shop equipment
S11058 S464 Shop equipment
S11059 canx Shop equipment
S11060 S640 Shop equipment
S11061 S295 Phone stub pole Racine/59
S11062 S297 Replace wood pole 77th CH
S11063 S305 Gasoline storage tanks – Lawndale CH
R11064 R125 Relay NB 58th – SSM
R11065 R185 Renew deck Lowe – EN
R11066 R186 Renew deck Parnell to Halsted – EN
R11067 R172 Renew deck 59th to State WB – EN
R11068 R173 Renew deck State to 59th EB – EN
S11069 R1849 Scrap 583 R7 Registers
R11070 R240 Replace telephone hangers SSM
R11071 R195 Replace telephone hangers EV
R11072 R164 Replace telephone hangers
R11073 R194 Replace wiring – 4430 N Broadway
R11074 R256 Replace telephone cable – DPK
S11075 S725 Remove switch Division/Orleans
S11076 S1128 Remove special work, install “Y” 63/Damen
R11077 R254 Telephone cable – Loop
R11078 R255 Telephone cable – Loop
G11079 G101 Office furniture
G11080 G94 Office furniture
G11081 G102 Office furniture
S11082 S1215 Renew feeder 77th CH
S11083 S393 Trolley for 63/Damen “Y”
S11084 S783 Remove special work Vincennes/75
S11085 S460 Move poles 26 Halsted to Cottage Grove
S11086 S672 Move poles 51st Wood to Halsted
S11087 S407 Move poles Central Park Roosevelt to 26th
S11088 S402 Auto #101, retire auto #55
R11089 canx Relay T2 Wendell St – NSM
S11090 S527 Remove track 114 via Ewing-118-Burley to 122
S11091 S262 Replace pole 87/Constance
R11092 R178 Generators for trucks #703,709
S11093 S269 Trolley on snow sweeper track Devon CH
G11094 G87 Office equipment
G11095 G117 Office furniture
S11098 S832 Shop equipment
S11096 S328 Remove line Roscoe Western to Damen
S11097 S327 Remove line Damen Roscoe to Belmont
R11099 R179 Real estate Linden Av – Wilmette
R11100 G103 Real estate Linden Av – Wilmette
S11101 canx Real estate North/Narragansett
S11102 S824 Real estate Narragansett/North
S11103 S465 Shop equipment
S11104 S316 Fire extinguishers
S11105 S317 Fire extinguishers
S11106 S318 Fire extinguishers
S11107 S567 Shop equipment

S11108 S380 Trolley bus parts for #368-412
S11109 S706 Trolley bus parts for #203-322
S11110 S466 Scrap shop equipment
S11111 S889 Gasoline storage tanks – Limits CH
S11112 S440 Real estate Western/Eastwood
S11113 S442 Real estate Western/Leland
S11114 S669 Paving – Central/Harrison terminal
G11115 G86 Office furniture
R11116 R241 Connect W Shops to Hamlin Yd – LK
G11117 G95 Office equipment
G11118 G113 Office equipment
S11119 S596 Lighting – Devon/Kedzie terminal
S11120 S298 Replace pole 120/Morgan
R11121 R260 Replace switch 56 61st SSM
S11122 S337 Shop equipment
S11123 S381 Shop equipment
S11124 S322 Shop equipment
S11125 S364 Shop equipment
S11126 S680 Shop equipment
S11127 S384 Shop equipment
S11128 S467 Office furniture
S11129 S591 Rem MOEC, inst lever S-E Kedzie/47
S11130 S1441 Snow sweeper track Devon CH
S11131 S1235 Widen transfer table W Shops for RT cars
S11132 S412 Fire extinguishers
S11133 G98 Office equipment
S11134 R394 Experimental electronic signal system
S11135 S382 ACF C36 parts
R11136 R242 Rearrange 3rd rail Hamlin Yd – LK
S11137 S455 Trolley Hamlin Yd to W Shops track
S11138 S699 Remove track 26 Halsted to Cottage Grove
S11139 S908 Remove track 59 Halsted to Wentworth
S11140 S875 Move poles Belmont Halsted to Western, Kimball
to Central
S11141 S1012 Remove track 51 Halsted to Wood
S11142 S404 Replace pole Ashland/Wabansia
S11143 S436 Remove RR xings 18/Sangamon,21/Sangamon (CB&Q)
G11144 G141 Office furniture
S11145 S568 Office equipment
R11146 R326 Motorize 7 RT trailers, r# 1810-1816
S11147 S733 Office equipment
G11148 G88 Office furniture
G11149 G124 Office equipment
S11150 S790 Lighting SR53 S Shops
S11151 S569 Shop equipment
S11152 S965 Renew special work Cermak/Halsted
S11153 S468 Shop equipment
S11154 S383 Shop equipment
S11155 S865 Shop equipment
R11156 R190 Relay S Ladder track – Howard Yd NSM
S11157 S857 Remove line Damen 47 to 74
S11158 S430 Shop equipment
S11159 R235 Loop track – Howard Yd NSM
S11160 S423 5 hand trucks for transfers
S11161 S437 Remove RR xings Burley/86 (EJ&E)

S11162 S361 Shop equipment
S11163 S619 Repave track 59 State to Wentworth
S11164 S661 North/Narragansett terminal
S11165 S482 Retire truck #128
S11166 S555 Remove line 16 Kenton to Kedzie
S11167 S1551 Remove line Wacker Washington to Monroe-
Madison River Bridge to Franklin
S11168 S1172 Remove line Wacker Randolph to Washington,
Randolph River Bridge to Franklin
S11169 S435 Remove track 16/Central Pk, 25/Central Pk
S11170 S1435 Install Western/Leland loop track
S11171 S722 Remove special work Irving Pk/Southport
S11172 S1169 Remove line Archer Cicero to Ashland
S11173 S806 Pole account 1949
R11174 R391 MUDC on RT cars #4001-4455,1789-1808
S11175 S601 Touhy/Lehigh terminal
R11176 R227 Extend structure N track Loomis St – EN
S11177 S1033 Scrap shop equipment
R11178 R148 Relay curves Lake/Wabash
R11179 R149 Relay curves State/Van Buren
R11180 R170 Relay curves Lake/Wells
S11181 S592 Phone stub pole Chicago/State
S11182 S854 Remove feeder 26th
S11183 S593 Remove line Milwaukee/Noble pocket
R11184 R146 Relay curve Wabash/Van Buren
S11185 S820 Remove track Noble Blackhawk to Milwaukee,
inst x-over Milwaukee/Noble
G11186 G99 Office furniture
S11187 S1059 Shop equipment
S11188 S766 Remove special work Kedzie/irving Park
S11189 S641 Shop equipment
S11190 S570 Shop equipment
S11191 S734 Trolley bus parts for #323-367
S11192 S469 Shop equipment
S11193 S321 Scrap shop equipment
S11194 S531 Remove x-over trolley 63 W of St Louis
G11195 G70 Office equipment
S11196 G163 Office equipment
S11197 S642 Shop equipment
S11198 S461 Reinf feeder Wentworth 59 to 71
S11199 S478 Renew feeder Wallace 31 to 36
S11200 S895 Renew trolley Roosevelt Kenton to Grant Pk
S11201 S759 Lighting 79th/Western loop
S11202 S385 Auto #555A, retire auto #535A
S11203 S772 Shop equipment
R11204 canx Road machinery
G11205 G104 Office furniture
S11206 S991 North/Kenton TB “U” trolley
R11207 R174 Renew deck – Drake Av Middle Tk – DPK
R11208 R151 Renew deck – Tks 8,9,10 Pulaski Yd DPK
R11209 R184 Renew deck NB main Roosevelt SSM
G11210 G123 General & Admin Costs 1949
G11211 G111 Scrap office equipment
S11212 S1223 Real estate Forest Glen Garage
G11213 canx Office equipment

G11214 G118 Office equipment
S11215 G112 Office equipment
G11216 G107 Office equipment
S11217 S928 Shop equipment
S11218 S1001 Shop equipment
S11219 G105 Office equipment
S11220 S760 AC Wiring Kedzie CH
S11221 S761 Wiring Kedzie CH
S11222 S794 Remove TB line Wabansia-Mobile loop
S11223 S1171 Remove line Orleans Hubbard to Lake
S11224 S540 Shop equipment
S11225 canx Remove line 71/Cottage Grove pocket
S11226 S434 Remove 2 west tracks Riverview Loop
S11227 S697 Lighting 63rd Pl/Narragansett loop
S11228 S561 Feeders North Av Gar TB yard
S11229 S620 Shop equipment
S11230 S541 Shop equipment
S11231 S605 Inst elec TB sw’s N-E Central/Diversey,Belmont
R11232 R175 Shop equipment
S11233 S571 Scrap mail car H7
S11234 S903 Renew special work Clark/Monroe
S11235 S866 Office equipment
S11236 S1448 Landscaping
S11237 S451 Remove track Damen Lawrence to Balmoral
S11238 S621 Inst TB line Lake Park Cable Ct to 56
S11239 S622 Inst TB line Harper 56 to Cable Ct
S11240 S623 Inst TB line Cable Ct Harper to Lake Park
S11241 S456 Steam heaters Limits CH
G11242 G132 Office equipment
S11243 S369 Bus #3475 to #BS1 (burned 09/20/47)
S11244 S386 Scrap Trolley bus #103 (burned 06/24/47)
S11245 S681 Fork lift
S11246 S929 Shop equipment
R11247 R197 Walkway & lighting 33rd to 35th SSM
R11248 R231 Exit from NB platform Fullerton NSM
G11249 G125 Office furniture
R11250 R225 Platform exts Addison to Armitage NSM, 35th
to 51st SSM
R11251 R196 150 hang signs, side sign inserts for N-S A-B
S11252 S1174 Remove track Randolph Franklin to River
S11253 S562 Install lever S-E State/Lake
R11254 R212 Renew street crossings LK
S11255 S563 Install lever N-W State/Lake
S11256 S825 Real estate Central/Milwaukee
S11257 S867 Real estate Milwaukee/Central
S11258 S868 Real estate Clark/Schreiber
S11259 S483 Sell real estate 43rd/Lake Park
S11260 S756 Pit lighting & heating Limits CH
S11261 S745 Lighting North/Narragansett terminal
S11262 S550 Renew feeder Taylor Oakley to Western
S11263 S479 Renew feeder Halsted Maxwell to 16
S11264 canx Addl feeder North Av Gar TB yard
S11265 S1109 Addl TB trolley N Ave Gar bay 3
S11266 S803 Addl TB neg trolley Cicero North to Belmont NB
R11267 R182 Road machinery

S11268 S787 Inst MOEC N-E Western/Leland
S11269 S444 Rail puller
S11270 S1032 Renew x-over Chicago/Austin
S11271 S925 Remove x-over State/S of 79
S11272 S924 Renew bridge approches Western/N Branch River
S11273 S594 Remove track 23/Lake Shore to Burnham Pk term
S11274 S588 Remove track 106th Bridge
R11275 R211 Purchase feeders to State Subway from ComEd
S11276 S959 Remove line Cermak/Calumet to Burnham Pk term
S11277 S607 Inst elec sw E-S Lake/Frankln,N-E Clinton/Lake
S11278 S522 Auto #553A, retire auto #521A
S11279 S573 Auto #554A, retire auto #518A
S11280 S574 Auto #102, retire auto #56
R11281 R251 Track & platform changes Indiana SSM,
platform ext Sedgwick NSM for new N-S
S11282 S656 Remove elec sw, inst lever E-S Lake/Wabash
S11283 S674 Renew special work Clark/Lake
S11284 S662 Remove x-over Western S of Lake
S11285 S916 Renew special work Lake/Cicero
S11286 S1002 Remove special work Chicago/Sedgwick
S11287 S797 Remove x-over trolley State S of 79
S11288 S564 Remove elec sw S-E Wells/Division
S11289 S1192 Remove line Navy Pier lower level
S11290 S480 Install x-over trolley Milwaukee/Noble
S11291 S606 Phone stub pole 51/Ashland
R11292 R210 Remove interlocking and install 2 spring and
3 rigid switches 42nd Pl – Kenwood
R11293 R217 Remove interlocking and install 2 spring and
2 rigid switches 69th – Normal Pk
R11294 G129 Office equipment
R11295 R216 Replace trolley rail NSM, SSM
R11296 R205 Office equipment
S11297 S1692 Boiler 78th/Vincennes PH
S11298 S653 Fuel storage tank North Ave Gar
S11299 S796 Pit lighting 77th CH
G11300 G108 Office equipment
G11301 G107 Office furniture
S11302 S575 Shop equipment
S11303 S576 Shop equipment
S11304 S643 Shop equipment
S11305 S470 Shop equipment
S11306 S577 Shop equipment
S11307 S542 Shop equipment
S11308 S707 Shop equipment
S11309 S543 Shop equipennt
S11310 S431 Shop equipment
S11311 S1143 Retire shop equipment
S11312 S644 Retire 7 work cars
R11313 R187 Renew deck Kedzie to St Louis WB GPK
R11314 R191 Renew deck 61st Yard SSM
S11315 S597 Remove line Randolph River to Franklin
S11316 S602 Install elec sw W-NW Lake/Milwaukee
R11317 R237 Exit controls, etc Merchandise Mart NSM
S11318 S645 Shop equipment
S11319 S544 Shop equipment

S11320 S578 Shop equipment
G11321 G106 Office equipment
S11322 S990 Install TB line Clark to Clark Loop
S11323 S984 Renew special work Cottage Grove/43
S11324 S701 Remove special work Clark/18
S11325 Sell real estate Indiana/Pershing
S11326 Sell real estate Lawrence/Kewanee
S11327 Sell real estate Cermak/Ashland
S11328 Sell real estate Lawndale/Cermak
S11329 Sell real estate Lake/California
S11330 Sell real estate Pershing/Rockwell
S11331 Sell real estate Oakley/61
S11332 Sell real estate State/52
S11333 S492 Sell real estate Archer/Pershing
G11334 G115 Two-way radio system
S11335 S417 Lites 323 S Jefferson office
S11336 S786 Pump – Van Buren tunnel
S11337 S784 Remove special work Halsted/14
S11338 S906 Remove special work Ashland/35
S11339 S702 Remove elec sw S-W Wabash/Lake
S11340 S1026 Remove track Belmont Kimball to Western
S11341 S443 Royalties on PCC streetcars
R11342 R171 Royalties on PCC RT cars
G11343 G126 Office furniture
S11344 S805 Line & lites for Western/Leland PCC loop
S11345 S751 Oil burner – Limits CH Boiler room
S11346 S551 Remove line Burley 83 to 87
S11347 S552 Remove line 87th Burley to Buffalo
S11348 S627 Remove line Buffalo 87 to 89
S11349 S804 Remove line Western/Roscoe loop 2 outer tracks
S11350 S926 Remove track Belmont Cicero to Pulaski
S11351 S981 Remove track Belmont Western to Damen
S11352 S1015 Remove track Belmont Pulaski to Kimball
S11353 S1018 Remove track Belmont Sheffield to Halsted
S11354 S1025 Remove track Belmont Damen to Sheffield
S11355 S1022 Remove track Belmont Central to Cicero
S11356 S905 Conv Halsted Waveland loop to 79 to PCC
S11357 S604 Add ex-CECo trucks #175-177
S11358 S1034 Alterations to trucks #175-177
S11359 S757 Lighting Western/Birchwood loop
R11360 R209 Renew deck N Pocket Loomis – EN
S11361 canx Remove special work Fullerton/Racine
S11362 S960 Remove special work 79/Exchange
S11363 S1246 Renew feeders Broadway Devon to Lawrence
S11364 S992 Move poles Blue Island/18, Halsted/Canalport
S11365 S390 Conv boiler room to garage 323 S Jefferson
R11366 R213 Relay Indiana Av middle tk curve – SSM
R11367 R214 Renew deck NB 40/Prairie curve SSM
S11368 S763 Widen street Western/Leland for PCC loop
S11369 S579 Shop equipment
S11370 Sell real estate Harper/64
S11371 S494 Sell real estate Ridge/Devon
S11372 S495 Sell real estate 21/Laflin
S11373 S496 Sell real estate Lincoln/Belle Plaine
S11374 Sell real estate State/61

S11375 Sell real estate Grand/Leavitt
S11376 S499 Sell real estate Lincoln/Sheffield
S11377 Sell real estate Halsted/80
S11378 S501 Sell real estate Harrison/Western
S11379 S502 Sell real estate (PROW) Throop/31
S11380 Sell real estate (PROW) 31/Morgan
S11381 S826 155 of 1721-1785,3119-3178,6155-6198 to OMC
S11382 S726 Lighing in washrooms & locker rooms – W Shops
S11383 S682 Shop equipment
S11384 S1158 Install N-W curve Bay 1 to Lead Limits CH
S11385 S1079 Remove track Noble CH yard
S11386 S767 Remove track California/Roscoe
S11387 S1134 Remove rail 18th Blue Island to Canal
S11388 S580 Truck #584
S11389 S683 Scrap streetcars 779 (F 6/28/47), 866,874,875
(F 7/12/49)
S11390 S703 Inst MOEC NE-N Blue Island/Leavitt,NE-N Blue
Island/Damen
S11391 S1023 Renew feeders Chicago/Michigan,Fairbanks
S11392 S2035 Central/Milwaukee terminal
S11393 S869 Shop equipment
S11394 S878 Addl feeder Western Haddon to Grand
S11395 S962 Remove track Archer/Ashland bridge WB
S11396 S589 Remove track 103 Halsted to Racine
S11397 S993 Electrical equipment for PCC’s
S11398 S510 Sell law books
S11399 S606 Inst x-over trolley Damen N of North
S11400 S1132 Remove special work Division/Clybourn
S11401 S1160 Renew special work Division/Crosby
S11402 S964 Renew N-E curve Central/63
S11403 S800 Renew special work Pulaski/Milwaukee
S11404 S708 Retire truck #546
S11405 S518 Remove track 122 via Burley-Brandon to 130
S11406 S746 Heat & light in toilet Belmont/Cumberland
S11407 S747 Heat & light in toilet/Belmont/Octavia
S11408 canx Rem trolley E-N curve Randolph/Clark
S11409 S598 Remove MOEC North/Lamon W-S
S11410 R183 Scrap shop equipment
S11411 S899 Remove line bays 1-2 Limits CH
R11412 R201 Renew deck Logan Sq Yard
R11413 R199 Renew deck Logan Sq Yard switches
S11414 S727 88 bus stop signs – Rte 97
S11415 R372 Rearrange E pocket & platform Kimball Yd
S11416 S581 Auto #104, retire auto #80
S11417 S582 Shop equipment
S11418 S1003 Renew trolley Cermak 47th Av to Calumet
S11419 S1068 Move poles 51 State to Halsted
S11420 S684 Scrap streetcar #6295 (F 7/31/49)
S11421 S583 Shop equipment
S11422 G119 Office equipment
G11423 G128 Office furniture
R11424 R250 Relay Tk 1,3 Dakin NSM
S11425 G133 Office equipment
S11426 S545 Office furniture
S11427 S646 Shop equipment

S11428 S995 Shop equipment
S11429 S736 Shop equipment
S11430 S1640 AC wiring South Shops powerhouse
S11431 S982 Renew track Western Armitage to Fullerton
R11432 R203 Relay WB curve Kimball Av RV
R11433 R202 Renew deck 61st Yard – SSM
R11434 R207 Relay Tks 2 & 3 Wolfram NSM
S11435 S1019 Remove track Devon Kedzie to California
S11436 G127 Office equipment
S11437 S1337 Renew special work Franklin/Washington
G11438 G120 Office furniture
S11439 S762 Lighting & heat Western/Berwyn loop
S11440 S633 Renew feeder Irving Park Fremont to Kenmore
S11441 S966 Remove x-over Armitage E of Rockwell
S11442 S1049 Remove x-overs 63 Pl E of Austin,E of Meade
S11443 S2104 Remove line Noble CH
S11444 S1186 Remove RR xings Cermak/May (CB&Q)
S11445 S785 Lighting – South Shops
S11446 S565 Remove MOEC S-E Western/Devon
S11447 S524 Sell real estate Melrose/California
S11448 S505 Sell real estate 38th/Rockwell
S11449 S655 Sell real estate Pershing/Rockwell
S11450 S506 Sell real estate 14th/Paulina
S11451 S686 Sell real estate Grand/LaSalle
S11452 S507 Sell real estate Cottage Grove/55th
S11453 S508 Sell real estate 71st/Yates
S11454 S1073 Remove track 51 Halsted to State
S11455 canx Renew track Clark Sheffield to Wellington
S11456 S1691 Renew spec wk, rem E-N curve Clark/Randolph
S11457 S1052 Renew track Halsted 31 to 34
S11458 S833 Shop equipment
S11459 R204 Relay deck, Caton and Fullerton LSQ
S11460 S517 Retire isolated track segments
G11461 G135 Office equipment
S11462 S1029 Remove x-over Western S of Roscoe
S11463 S1222 Remove leads bay 4, install bay 7 Lawndale CH
S11464 S852 Renew feeder Clark Lawrence to Leland
S11465 S1254 Radio equipment
G11466 G121 Office furniture
S11467 S1378 Conv to TB Fullerton Central to Halsted
S11468 S896 Renew disconnect sws Western Maypole to Elston
S11469 S967 Shop equipment
S11470 S827 Shop equipment
S11471 S713 Shop equipment
S11472 S807/R540 Shop equipment
S11473 G136 Office equipment
S11474 S691 Office furniture
S11475 canx Scrap shop equipment
S11476 S709 Ret #Q502-Q503, add hi-lifts #HL1-HL6
S11477 S610 Remove x-over trolley Armitage/Rockwell
S11478 R232 Relay Lombard to Humphrey LK
S11479 S828 9 spreaders for #165,174,561,570-573,575,R53
G11480 G122 Office equipment
S11481 S919 Remove rail West Shops
S11482 S710 Shop equipment

R11483 R221 Canopy uder structure Fullerton NSM
S11484 S1195 Shorten TB loop Diversey/Neva
S11485 S1085 Remove line Racine Adams to Van Buren
R11486 R180 Shop equipment
S11487 S1220 Clark/North terminal
G11488 canx Office furniture
S11489 S665 Renew feeder Western Ohio to Erie
R11490 R215 Remove stairs Congress St Stub S side of str
S11491 S1054 Remove track 18 Damen to Leavitt
S11492 S1270 Remove track Lake/Hamlin Yard
S11493 S840 Remove poles 108 Ewing to Ave D
S11494 S1057 Remove track 18 Canal to River viaduct
S11495 S1035 Scrap shop equipment
S11496 S670 Install poles Illinois/LaSalle
R11497 R233 Extend and repair canopy Fullerton NSM NB
R11498 R218 Remove canopy Halsted St NSM
S11499 S634 Install x-over trolley Randolph W of Wells
S11500 S999 Fullerton/Parkside terminal
S11501 S657 Renew feeder Wells Grand to Ontario
S11502 S663 Renew feeder Wells/Grand
R11503 R278 Pit – 61st shop SSM
S11504 S687 Sell real estate – 84th/State
S11505 S1097 Buy real estate Kedzie/Peterson
S11506 S1098 Buy real estate Kedzie/Peterson
S11507 S1058 Shop equipment
S11508 S1219 Install N-E curve Halsted/Armitage
S11509 S776 Auto #105, retire auto #68
S11510 S692 Auto #103, retire auto #64
S11511 S953 Remove RR xings Commercial/83 Pl (B&O)
S11512 S714 Shop equipment
S11513 S1285 TB line thru Central/Milw terminal, rem
Milwaukee/Foster TB line
S11514 S1104 Remove x-over Clark S of Washington
S11515 S1207 Renew special work Jefferson/Washington
R11516 R239 Heaters – Skokie Shops
R11517 R208 Renew deck 61st Yard SSM
R11518 R268 Extend platform west – Loomis EN
S11519 S1074 Install x-over California S of School
R11520 R288 Poster frames – RT
S11521 S583 Retire auto #550A
S11522 S717 Remove MOEC S-W State/Harrison
S11523 S719 Remove elec sw E-S Lake/Dearborn
S11524 canx Office furniture
S11525 S673 Install x-over trolley California/School
S11526 S647 Scrap coal cars #C61-C62
S11527 S813 Renew trolley Michigan 115 to 119
S11528 S977 Shop equipment
S11529 S978 Shop equipment
S11530 S1110 Kedzie/Peterson terminal
S11531 S1268 Install curves 63rd into Lower 63rd RT yard
R11532 S1415/R356 Rearrange elect equip 63rd yard SSM
R11533 R263 Relocate & extend tracks 63rd yard SSM
R11534 R224 Renew deck Logan Sq yard LSQ
S11535 S720 Remove elec sw, inst holder N-E Dearborn/Lake
S11536 S664 Renew feeder Oakley Blue Island to Coulter

G11537 G134 Office furniture
S11538 S737 Water coolers – West Shop
S11539 S884 Install trolley Halsted/Armitage “Y”
S11540 S1036 Retire truck #551
S11541 canx Remove x-over trolley Clark/Washington
S11542 S998 Renew x-over Schreiber W of Clark
S11543 S913 Replace doors – West Shops
S11544 S1557 Buy real estate Kedzie/Peterson
G11545 G130 Office equipment
R11546 R265 Heaters – Skokie Shops
R11547 R296 Renew deck Racine EN
S11548 S750 Pave floor Division/Western CH bay 3
S11549 S688 Shop equipment
R11550 R327 Shop equipment
S11551 S728 Shop equipment
S11552 S1248 Building alterations – Grand/Leavitt
S11553 S729 Road equipment
S11554 S808 2 Semi-trailers #994-995
S11555 S834 Office furniture
S11556 S1011 Shop equipment
S11557 S870 Shop equipment
S11558 S871 Shop equipment
S11559 S738 Shop equipment
S11560 S968 Shop equipment
S11561 S773 Shop equipment
S11562 canx Shop equipment
S11563 S835 Shop equipment
S11564 S730 Shop equipment
S11565 S739 Shop equipment
S11566 S740 Shop equipment
S11567 S741 Shop equipment
S11568 S872 Shop equipment
S11569 canx Wiring for wheel grinder – 77th CH
S11570 canx Wiring for wheel grinder – Devon CH
S11571 canx Wiring for wheel grinder – 69th CH
S11572 canx Wiring for wheel grinder – Devon CH
S11573 S920 Addl wiring – Grand/Leavitt
S11574 S816 Renew trolley Chicago Clark to Lake Shore
S11575 S904 Remove MOEC x-over 93 E of Drexel
G11576 G153 Office equipment
S11577 S1124 Remove Burnside CH yard
S11578 S963 Install x-over 31 E of Karlov
S11579 S1453 Buy real estate North/Winchester
S11580 S997 Canopy – Narragansett/63rd Pl terminal
S11581 S996 2 Canopies – Halsted/79th terminal
R11582 R226 Inst supv booth Fullerton NSM NB S end
S11583 canx Revise feeders Franklin Sub to Dearborn Sway
S11584 canx Revise feeders East Lake Sub to Dearborn Sway
S11585 S815 Renew trolley Grand Wabash to Pier
R11586 R297 Suppl interlocker T18 for 2 x-overs on Lake,
Wells/Washington
R11587 R305 Rebuild Lake/Pine crossing – LK
R11588 R670 Line supervision system – North/South, Lake
S11589 S987 Install x-over trolley 31/Karlov
S11590 S817 Renew trolley California Milwaukee to Chicago

S11591 S818 Renew trolley Wabash Grand to Cermak
S11592 S1056 Remove special work Halsted/Webster
S11593 S1020 Renew trolley Kedzie Chicago to Marquette
S11594 S1048 Remove track Vincennes PROW 90 to 107
S11595 S1173 Remove line 95 Commercial to River
S11596 S1189 Remove line S Chicago 93 to 95
S11597 S841 Remove line 92 Buffalo to River
S11598 S954 Remove RR xings 111/Rockwell (B&OCT)
G11599 G157 Office furniture
R11600 canx Loudspeakers – Fullerton NSM NB
R11601 canx Loudspeakers – Fullerton NSM SB
S11602 S853 Renew trough Western/Lake
S11603 S1221 Renew track 69 CH bay 6
S11604 S1028 Remove switch to frog shop Ogden/13
S11605 S731 4 spreaders for BA5-BA6,BA9-BA10
S11606 S842 Renew trough Wallace/40
R11607 R253 Train annunciator – SB local track Chicago
Av to Chicago Tower NSM
S11608 S843 Remove feeder 127th Michigan to Indiana
S11609 S849 Remove feeder Michigan 119 to 127
S11610 S845 Remove line Illinois Orleans to Wells
S11611 S846 Remove feeder Indiana, PROW 127 to 134
S11612 S847 Remove feeder 134 PROW to Indiana
S11613 S848 Remove feeder Indiana 134 to River
S11614 S837 Renew feeder Crawford Sub to Milwaukee
S11615 S849 Remove x-over trolley 63rd E of Central Pk
R11616 R243 Conv shop to carhouse Hamlin LK
S11617 S1093 Concrete floors – West Shops W End/Wash Bldg
S11618 S1083 Remove E-S curve 63/South Park
R11619 R234 Feeder cable Howard Yard NSM
S11620 S1090 Remove RR xings 111/Hale,Vincennes/103, 89
S11621 S1531 Scrap shop equipment
S11622 canx Scrap 200 streetcars
G11623 G138 Office furniture
G11624 G158 Office eqipment
S11625 S1130 Sprinklers – Limits Garage
S11626 S1224 Build California/31st terminal
S11627 S1202 Remove x-over Cottage Grove S of 31st
S11628 S1030 Renew trolley 79th Western to Brandon
S11629 S944 Remove poles Madison State to Wabash
S11630 S945 Remove poles Randolph State to wabash
R11631 R264 Remove block signals Cermak to 40 SSM exp tk
S11632 S850 Remove line 31st Kostner to Karlov
S11633 S1000 Remove x-over 74th W of Halsted
S11634 S879 Remove elec sw, inst holder S-E Halsted/79
S11635 S666 Install stub phone pole 51/Western
R11636 R236 Addl lites – Wellington,Diversey,Armitage NSM,
Montrose RV
S11637 S667 Install stub phone pole 26/California
S11638 S711 Road equipment
S11639 S969 Office furniture
S11640 S851 Renew feeder 61 Vernon to Eberhart
S11641 S1804 Shop equipment
S11642 S742 Office equipment
S11643 S1088 Renew x-over Root E of Halsted

R11644 R298 Generators for trucks #704,707
S11645 S1084 Remove x-over Larrabee N of Division, install
x-over Larrabee S of Oak
G11646 G154 Office equipment
S11647 S748 Lites Central/Harrison terminal
R11648 R230 Shop equipment
R11649 R266 Shop equipment
S11650 S721 Remove elec sw S-SW Cottage Grove/S Chgo
S11651 S718 Remove elec sw NW-N Milwaukee/Kedzie
S11652 S1658 Remove line Kedzie Bryan Mawr to Milwaukee
S11653 S779 Remove elec sw, install holder S-E Desplaines/
Randolph
R11654 R321 Relay Eggleston to Loomis EN
S11655 S668 Install stub phone pole Damen/Irving Pk
S11656 S613 Renew E-S curve Armitage/Clark
S11657 S671 Install stub phone pole 111/Kedzie
S11658 S694 City cost to pave tracks 1949
S11659 S712 Addl costs on removals 6/1 to 12/31/49
S11660 S695 Retire abandoned tracks and line
R11661 R198 Retire closed stations

AFE/AFR’s 1950 series

R12000 R373 Extend NB platform Damen LSQ, add North Av exit
S12001 S693 Scrap 200 streetcars
R12002 R371 Shop equipment
S12003 S921 Lighting Kedzie/Peterson loop
R12004 R504 Shop equipment
S12005 S1532 “No Parking – Bus Stop” signs
S12006 S855 Renew feeder Division/Western
S12007 S1071 Renew trolley Cottage Grove Cermak to 56th
S12008 S970 Time clocks Beverly,North Park,S Shops
S12009 canx Transformer – Westlawn Sub
S12010 S971 6 Electrofarer fareboxes (test)
R12011 canx Renew deck – lower Wilson incline trestle
R12012 R246 Renew deck – Eggleston EN
R12013 R219 Shop equipment
S12014 S1111 Convert bay 2 for TB’s North Ave
S12015 S1086 Remove line Vincennes Halsted to Monterey
S12016 S1087 Remove line Halsted 81st to Vincennes
G12017 G131 Office furniture
G12018 G173 General & Administrative costs 1950
G12019 G137 Office furniture
S12020 S897 Renew feeder Cortland Ashland to Elston
S12021 S1622 Renew tracks Lake/River Bridge
S12022 S930 Office equipment
S12023 S946 Remove line Monterey Vincennes to 111th
S12024 S1065 Remove line 111th Monterey to Sacramento
S12025 S829 Shop equipment
S12026 S830 Shop equipment
R12027 R220 Office furniture
R12028 canx Stairway Jackson Pk JPK SE corner
S12029 S1213 Pole account 1950
S12030 S1367 Remove special work Western/Taylor
S12031 S836 Pumping equipment – Grand/Leavitt
S12032 S743 Retire auto #532A, add auto #556A
G12033 G175 Office furniture
S12034 S879 Sell real estate Madison Loophouse
S12035 S890 Move x-over trolley Larrabee/north of Division to south of Oak
S12036 S1491 12 dump bottoms for trucks #R51,52,54-59,251-254
S12037 S758 Retire air compressor
S12038 S2660 Remove line Blue Island CH
S12039 S788 Install MOEC Elston/s of Lawrence x-over
S12040 S883 Renew feeder Division/Western
S12041 S789 Install electric switch Pulaski/Elston S-SE
S12042 S887 Renew feeder Blue Island Arthington to Cabrini
S12043 S922 Expand SR56 – South Shops
S12044 S1533 Shop equipment
S12045 S774 Shop equipment
S12046 S837 Conv oil furnace to gas – West Shops
S12047 S1150 Replace CECo MH covers with CTA covers
S12048 S809 Shop equipment
S12049 S1037 Shop equipment
S12050 S1050 Shop equipment
S12051 S1257 Shop equipment
S12052 S831 Shop equipment

S12053 S1368 Shop equipment
S12054 S810 Shop equipment
S12055 S1038 Shop equipment
R12056 R367 Equipment – East Lake Sub
R12057 R518 Cables – East Lake Sub
R12058 R365 Cables – Milwaukee Sub
S12059 S1346 Feeder panels – Milwaukee Sub
S12060 S1141 Move poles 35th/Morgan
S12061 S939 AC lighting Lincoln CH offices, trainroom
G12062 G142 Office equipment
R12063 R274 Walkway north of Armitage SB NSM
G12064 G143 Office furniture
G12065 G144 Office furniture
S12066 S860 Sell real estate Larrabee/Armitage CH
G12067 G164 Office equipment
S12068 S780 Tongue holder Lawrence/Pulaski E-S
S12069 S1313 Remove x-over Chicago/west of Clark
S12070 S1120 Remove line Burnside CH yard
S12071 S1121 Renew feeder Grand Desplaines to River
G12072 G145 Office equipment
S12073 S900 Office equipment
S12074 S880 Tongue holders Elston/Pulaski NW-N,Pulaski/Lawrence N-E
G12075 G146 Office equipment
R12076 canx Stairways & booth 51st SSM
S12077 S1004 Replace gasoline tank Avondale Yd
R12078 R408 Remodel Logan Sq inspection shop
R12079 R361 Feeder cable Kedzie/Harrison sub
S12080 S1113 Electrical lighting W Shops
S12081 S1821 Material elevator W Shops
R12082 R309 Feeder conduit Dearborn Subway to Franklin Sub
R12083 R366 Equipment – Franklin Sub
R12084 R368 Cables – Franklin Sub
S12085 S775 Scrap #3188 (burned 11/25/49)
R12086 R378 Parts #6001-6130 RT cars
S12087 S781 Electric switch Dearborn/Randolph S-W
S12088 S782 Electric switch Randolph/Wells W-N
R12089 R267 Conv home to block signal Indiana Av SSM NB middle track
S12090 S1131 Remove special work Kedzie/Archer
R12091 canx Install diamond x-over, 2 sidings Cicero DP
S12092 S1027 Renew feeder Cottage Grove 36th to 37th
R12093 R310 Feeder duct Dearborn Subway to East Lake Sub
G12094 G139 Office furniture
G12095 G168 Office furniture
S12096 S972 Shop equipment
S12097 S811 Shop equipment
S12098 S1704 Conv CSL bus stop signs to CTA type
S12099 S1126 Remove special work Kedzie/16th
S12100 S1140 Remove rail 18th Damen to Blue Island
S12101 S856 Remove x-over trolley Chicago/west of Clark
S12102 S1184 Remove line Dorchester 63rd to 64th
S12103 S1185 Remove line Harper 62nd to 63rd
S12104 S1191 Remove line 64th Stony Island to Dorchester
S12105 S1153 Remove line 62nd Harper to Stony Island
S12106 S881 Remove electric switch Cortland/Paulina W-N
S12107 S1024 Remove track Devon California to Western

G12108 G198 Office furniture
R12109 R323 Renew footwalk SSM
R12110 canx Replace wood with streel stringers Wilson Incl
R12111 R313 X-over betw T1, T2 north of Clark NSM
R12112 canx Open pit Linden Yd
R12113 R307 Chain link fence 63rd Yard SSM
S12114 S1463 New yard track Lower 63rd under L to 61st Frog Shop
S12115 canx Relay Clark Sheffield to Addison
R12116 R272 Replace flange angles Loop
S12117 S1228 Lighting Cottage Grove/72nd loop
S12118 S1159 Move poles 51st Kedzie to Wood
G12119 G167 Office furniture
S12120 S1060 Shop equipment
S12121 S1144 Shop equipment
S12122 S931 Shop equipment
S12123 S1039 Shop equipment
S12124 S888 Renew feeder 21st Clark to Dearborn
S12125 S861 Sell real estate 109/Ewing, 109/Av L
S12126 S1180 Shop equipment
G12127 G151 Office equipment
S12128 S1105 Lighting South Shops SR56
G12129 G169 Office equipment
S12130 S1181 Replace poles Lawrence Austin to Broadway
S12131 S1534 Shop equipment
S12132 S932 Shop equipment
S12133 S1114 Remove CB&Q RR x-ings Throop/Cermak
R12134 R401 Ballast drains RV
R12135 R344 Renew footwalk LK
S12136 S1005 Remove line Adams Racine to Desplaines
R12137 R259 Electrical changes for new x-over NSM Clark
G12138 G140 Office qeuipment
S12139 S917 Electrical circuit – W Shops
R12140 R262 Scrap RT cars #3076,3082 (burned 02/03/50)
S12141 S947 Renew feeder Lincoln/Belden
S12142 S715 Additional salvage from pre-10/1/47 AFR’s
S12143 S1013 Alterations to 23rd/Halsted CH for sand stor
S12144 S2801 Change feeders East Lake, Illinois Subs
S12145 S1062 Renew trolley Chicago Austin to Kedzie, California to LaSalle
S12146 S1578 Counduits – East Lake Sub
S12147 S1272 Remove feeders Cermak Wabash to Silverton
S12148 S885 Remove x-over trolley Halsted/s of Buckingham
S12149 S1548 Remove x-over Halsted/s of Buckingham
S12150 S1475 Remove track Taylor Western to Halsted
G12151 G159 Office equipment
G12152 G152 Office equipment
S12153 S1053 Remove track 18th/viaduct over C&WI
S12154 S961 Remove switch Caicero/Archer loop
S12155 S1480 Rearrange Halsted/Pershing Yard
S12156 S1539 Addition to Halsted/Pershing Yard office
S12157 S862 Sell real estate 80th/Emerald
S12158 S1112 Remove feeders Kedzie/Harrison sub
G12159 G155 Office furniture
S12160 S1766 Engineering Forest Glen Garage
S12161 S873 Shop equipment
S12162 S914 Remove apt bldg 94th/South Chicago CH site

G12163 G174 Office equipment
S12164 S1502 Pole puling equipment
S12165 S1286 Degreasing room – South Shops
S12166 S1145 Office furniture
G12167 canx Office equipment
S12168 S874 Shop equipment
S12169 S1063 Remove trolley S Chicago 71st to 93rd
R12170 R346 Renew deck – pockets 1 and 4 Wilson NSM
R12171 R457 Renew deck – Upper Wilson Yd NSM
S12172 S956 Renew feeder Blue Island Cabrini to Polk
S12173 S1263 Repave Grand River Bridge
R12174 R525 Feeder Kolmar sub
S12175 S1308 Electric switch Archer/Clark NE-N
S12176 S1447 Transformer – Westlawn Sub
S12177 S838 18 fire extinguishers
S12178 S988 Renew feeder Racine/Garfield
S12179 S955 Remove C&NW RR xings North/Magnolia
S12180 canx Remove C&NW RR xings Fullerton/Wolcott
S12181 S1401 Remove special work Kedzie/51st
S12182 S1170 Remove track Morgan 31st to Pershing
S12183 S1081 Remove special work Elam/Larrabee
R12184 R343 New lights – Wells Terminal Met Main
R12185 S933 Road equipment
S12186 S882 Switch heater Cottage Grove/38th N-W
S12187 S1481 Shop equipment
S12188 S1040 Lift truck
S12189 S901 Shop equipment
G12190 G160 Office equipment
S12191 S973 Shop equipment
S12192 S1347 AC meterering panels – 4 subs
S12193 S1117 Renew trolley Lake/Randolph
S12194 S1574 Move poles Irving Park/River Bridge
S12195 S1031 Remove trolley 91st Baltimore to South Chicago
G12196 G191 Office equipment
R12197 R345 Relay T3 49th SSM
S12198 S1211 Resectionalize Lawrence Austin to Broadway
S12199 S1106 Remove trolley Baltimore 91st to South Chicago
S12200 S864 Lighting 63rd/Narragansett loop
G12201 G176 Office equipment
R12202 R252 2 exit turnstiles Dearborn/Van Buren mezz loop
S12203 S1021 Alterations to Pershing/Halsted yard
G12204 G147 Office furniture
S12205 S1006 Renew TB line on Wabansia, Luna
S12206 S1356 Relay Milwaukee/Imlay loop
R12207 R247 Retire shop machinery
S12208 S812 Scrap streetcar #415 (burned 03/12/50)
S12209 S1146 Scrap shop machinery
S12210 S974 Shop equipment
S12211 R248 Shop equipment
G12212 G148 Office furniture
S12213 S957 Renew feeder 87th Ashvand to Vincennes
R12214 R375 Move columns Lake/Wacker LK
S12215 S915 Lighting 79th/Halsted loop platforms
G12216 G161 Office furniture
R12217 R257 Replace phone cable hangers NSM

S12218 S1064 Remove x-over trolley 63 Pl E & W of Austin
S12219 S948 Remove pole 79th/Brandon
S12220 S893 Remove pole Marshfield/71st
S12221 S891 Remove pole Lawndale CH
S12222 S949 Replace pole Roosevelt/Kenton
R12223 R316 Remove Buena,Grace,Clark,Wrightwood,Webster,Halsted,Larrabee,Schiller,
Division,Oak – NSM, Ravenswood RV, State/Congress,18th,26th,29th,
31st,Pershing SSM, Princeton,Parnell EN
S12224 S1165 Remove MILW RR xings North/Cherry
S12225 S989 Renew feeder Western Ohio to Erie
S12226 G165 Office equipment
R12227 R283 Retire interlocking,add spring switch Lawndale HPK
R12228 R258 Renew phone hangers Met Main, LK
S12229 S950 Remove x-over trolley Western N of Lincoln,S of Lake
S12230 S1300 Shop equipment
S12231 S934 Parts for ACF-Brill TB’s
S12232 S1271 Retire window curtains for PCC’s 4052-4171,7035-7114
R12233 R270 Office furniture
G12234 G170 Office equipment
S12235 S1239 Front end ad frames cars & buses
S12236 S1118 Rearrange trolley Halsted/Pershing Yard
S12237 S1639 Build bus terminal 111th/Harding
R12238 R306 Renew flange angles SSM
S12239 S1338 Lighting – West Shops
S12240 S1129 Relay Chicago Laramie to Pine
S12241 S1288 Remove MOEC Van Buren/Wells W-S
S12242 S975 Shop equipment
S12243 S1390 Fire escape W Shops
R12244 R275 Renew deck Logan Sq
S12245 S1462 Partitions in office 77th CH
R12246 R279 New doors 61st Shops SSM
R12247 R261 Road equipment
R12248 R337 New track S of Shop Kimball Yd
S12249 S1357 Remove rail Irving Park/River Bridge
S12250 S1007 Renew spans Larrabee Lincoln to Chicago
S12251 S1196 Move poles Taylor Western to Halsted
S12252 S1803 Renew feeders Illinois Sub
S12253 S1208 Shop equipment
S12254 S1198 Office furniture
S12255 G149 Office equipment
S12256 S863 Sell land & bldg Sheffield/Lill
S12257 S1273 TB line Maypole Pulaski to Springfield, West Shops bay 13
S12258 S1256 TB line Grand North to Pulaski, Pulaski Grand to Maypole
S12259 S1133 Neg trolley for TB Cicero Belmont to North SB (not completed)
S12260 S1147 Shop equipment
S12261 S1234 Lighting Devon CH
S12262 S1072 Renew trolley 18 State to Indiana, Indiana 18 to Cermak
S12263 S1430 Renew rail Irving Park/Ashland
R12264 R826 Remove feeder Van Buren tunnel
R12265 R244 Telephone cable EV
S12266 S1152 Renew feeder Harrison Dearborn to Clark
S12267 R1249 Replace fence S Shops Vincennes, 79th sides
S12268 G150 Office furniture
S12269 canx Bus stop signs
R12270 R325 New stairs to boiler rm Pulaski/DPK

S12271 S979 Office furniture
S12272 S1199 Scrap shop equipment
S12273 S1136 Renew feeder 79th Colfax to Brandon
S12274 S1075 Additional feeder Chicago Mozart to Kedzie
S12275 S821 Accounting entry – West Shops taxes 10/1 to 12/31/47
S12276 S1352 Relay Cottage Grove 31st to 36th
G12277 G156 Office furniture
R12278 R301 Power winch for truck #707
R12279 R249 Road machinery
R12280 canx Arc welder
S12281 canx Additional contactors for MOEC’s
S12282 S1238 Electric switch protection Clark/Armitage,State/43,State/Root
S12283 S2086 Electric switch protection
R12284 R483 Auto block signals SB tracks Clark Jct NSM
S12285 R1319 Replace fork lift
S12286 S935 Scrap 43 service cars
R12287 R291 Scrap 75 RT motor cars
R12288 R292 Scrap 75 RT coaches
S12289 S1253 Remove track 51st Kedzie to Western
S12290 S1203 Remove track Southport Roscoe to Cortland
S12291 S1137 Renew feeder Milwaukee Western to Moffatt
S12292 S951 Renew feeder Homer Campbell to Logan Sq L
S12293 S1142 Renew track Root w of Halsted
S12294 S985 Gas storage tank Grand/Leavitt
S12295 S1157 Tie switch box Western/Devon
S12296 canx Power feed to cranes S Shops
S12297 S1107 Remove x-over trolley State s of Madison
S12298 S1066 Remove feeder Western Devon to Lawrence
R12299 R276 Renew deck – Logan Sq Yard
S12300 S1212 Remove x-over State S of Madison
S12301 S1264 Remove tracks Fullerton/River Bridge
S12302 S1642 Build Cicero/Pensacola terminal
G12303 G183 Office furniture
S12304 S1599 Scrap line shafts – S Shops
S12305 S1327 Shop equipment
R12306 R385 Time recorder clocks
S12307 S936 Replace spreaders on #166,167,169,170,574
S12308 canx Wreck Burnside CH train room
R12309 R277 Renew stringers Rockwell Br – LK
R12310 R351 Ad frames Dearborn Subway
R12311 R299 Remove jumpfrog x-over S of Damen LSQ
S12312 S1479 Wreck truck #585
S12313 S1116 Strip Burnside CH for sale
G12314 G162 Office furniture
S12315 S1061 Shop equipment
S12316 S1850 Shop equipment
S12317 S1041 Shop equipment
S12318 S1722 Rehab freight elevator S Shops
S12319 S1014 Lighting 31st/California loop
R12320 R273 3rd rail alts acct removal of xover LSQ Damen
S12321 S1465 Purchase real estate Cicero/Pensacola
R12322 R355 16 TVM’s – Dearborn Subway
S12323 S1176 Renew trolley State Division to Kinzie
S12324 S1287 Add’l contactors for MOEC California/Milwaukee N-NW
S12325 S980 Electric switch Chicago/Cicero E-N

S12326 S1162 Alter trolley 69th CH bay 4 car washer
S12327 S923 Rem elec switch, install lever Elston/Milwaukee NW-N
S12328 S940 Rem MOEC, install lever Division/Milwaukee NW-W
S12329 S927 Rem elec switch, install lever Division/Milwaukee E-SE
R12330 R338 Platform extensions – Loomis EN
S12331 S1217 Repave alley E of W Shops Lake to W End
R12332 R382 Replace flange angles RV
S12333 S1183 Move poles Southport/Lincoln, Cortland
S12334 S1178 Renew trolley Division Clark to State
S12335 S1717 Rearrange track for car washer 69th CH bay 4
S12336 S1541 Shop equipment
S12337 S1240 Shop equipment
S12338 S1432 Remove special work exc N-E,W-S curves Western/Devon
S12339 S1076 Renew feeder Grand Kingsbury to Franklin
S12340 S1077 Renew feeder Illinois Wells to Franklin
S12341 S1042 Pul-lifts #150,162-164,563,567-569,579-580
R12342 R281 Remove interlocker St Louis GPK
S12343 S983 Remove tongue holder Chicago/Halsted W-S
S12344 S952 Renew feeder Milwaukee Wabansia to Concord
S12345 S937 Retire truck #129
S12346 S1324 Remove special work Kedzie/59th
S12347 canx Renew special work, rem W-S Madison/Clinton
S12348 canx Install N-W curve Wentworth/79th S Shops Yard
S12349 S1342 Renew track State 13th to 15th
S12350 S1755 Renew track Madison LaSalle to Wells
R12351 R320 Renew deck – Lake St River Bridge
S12352 S1125 Pave bays 4-5-6 Division CH
R12353 R330 Repeater signal A269 – Clybourn/North/State Sub
S12354 S1358 Move poles Grand/Laramie
R12355 R280 Scrap RT car #309 (burned 05/17/50)
S12356 S1043 Scrap 100 streetcars
S12357 S1108 Scrap buses #6104,6122, conv 16 to #BA20-BA35
G12358 G166 Office equipment
S12359 S1437,R636 Real estate Logan Sq terminal bus loop
S12360 S2029 Propane facilities North/Cicero
G12361 canx Office equipment
G12362 G179 Office equipment
S12363 S1123 Renew feeders 48th Sub
S12364 S1138 Renew feeder Madison Franklin to Clark
S12365 canx Renew feeder Wells, Lake, LaSalle
S12366 canx Renew feeder Franklin Jackson to Adams
S12367 canx Renew feeder Milwaukee
S12368 S1067 Renew feeder 49/Honore
S12369 S1044 Shop equipment
S12370 S1255 Renew track Grand/C&NW viaduct w of River
S12371 S1078 Renew feeder 48 Marshfield to Ashland
R12372 R318 Equipment for RT crane S223
S12373 S1163 Addl feeder Roosevelt/Clark
R12374 R331 2 floodlite poles Clark tower
S12375 S1122 Remove line Wells Harrison to Roosevelt
S12376 S1414 Power facilities West Shops
S12377 S1008 Storage Battery Maypole Sub
S12378 S1214 Shoo-fly Halsted/Congress Xway
S12379 S1807 Shop equipment
S12380 S1267 Shop equipment

S12381 S1218 Shoo-fly trolley Haslted/Congress Xway
S12382 S1177 Renew feeder Archer/Canal, Cermak
S12383 S1374 Remove track Kedzie Bryn Mawr to Montrose
R12384 R625 Addition Unit #2 – Skokie Shops
S12385 S1139 Move poles Madison Canal to Clinton
S12386 S1466 Real estate Cicero/24th Pl
S12387 S938 Sell land & buildings – Burnside CH
S12388 S1250 Build North/Winchester terminal
R12389 R448 Shop equipment
S12390 S1045 Scrap PCC car 7078 (burned 05/25/50)
S12391 S1046 Scrap salt car AA45 (burned 05/27/50)
S12392 S1047 Scrap shop equipment
R12393 R269 Renew feeder – 20th Sub
S12394 S1154 Phone stub pole Cottage Grove/55th
S12395 S1149 Scrap 200 street cars
S12396 S1204 Remove track 51st Western to Wood
S12397 S1659 Move poles 47th State to Cottage Grove
S12398 S1229 Control equip – Westlawn Sub
S12399 S1230 Control equip – Maypole Sub, Western Sub
S12400 S1454 Buses #5000-5499
R12401 R405 RT cars #6131-6200
S12402 S1780 Spare parts 5000’s
S12403 S1200 Retire salt bus BA2
R12404 R293 Scrap fire cars S1,S3
R12405 R295 Floodlights – Buena Freight Yard
S12406 S1190 Abandon conduit Hubbard Racine to Sangamon
S12407 S1091 Concrete floors – South Shops
S12408 S1837 Alterations – Grand/Leavitt SR
R12409 R284 Ret stairway in alley W of Wells – Wells Term
G12410 G180 Office equipment
R12411 R302 Replace RH x-over W of Austin – Lake St
S12412 S1197 Neg feeders 51st Wolcott to Western
S12413 S1800 Shop equipment
S12414 S1680 Shop equipment
R12415 R360 Shop equipment
R12416 R308 Shop equipment
R12417 R328 Shop equipment
R12418 R489 Shop equipment
R12419 R652 Shop equipment
R12420 R442 Shop equipment
R12421 R314 Road Machinery
R12422 R303 Road Machinery
S12423 S1572 Move poles 47th Western to Halsted
S12424 S1586 Neg feeder 47th Western to Halsted
R12425 R312 Remove feeder cable Pershing to 41st SSM
S12426 S1233 Abandon conduit 21st Leavitt to Blue Island, Throop to Racine
S12427 canx Remove line 21st/Halsted pocket
G12428 G172 Sell law books
S12429 S2067 Propane facilities North Park Gar
S12430 S1687 AC power bays 4-5-6 Division/Western
S12431 S1965 Conv bays 4-5-6 to storeroom Division CH
S12432 S1336 Electric fork lift
R12433 R289 Extend plat – Cermak, Cottage Gr, State SSM
S12434 S1164 Remove feeders Racine Jackson to 21st
S12435 S1637 Move poles Broadway Grace to Clarendon, Halsted Grace to Clark

S12436 S1530 Addl wiring for bus washer bay 4 – Archer CH
S12437 R423 12 sets U-4 Universal Brake Valves – spares for 4000’s, 1800’s
S12438 S1296 Remove line Taylor Haslted to Paulina
R12439 R287 Sell real estate Wabansia/Winnebago
S12440 S1987 Abandon conduit S Chicago Marquette to 71st
S12441 S1962 Convert Lawrence to TB
S12442 canx Neg feeder 48th Honore to Ashland
R12443 R282 Power for 6 sheds – Skokie Shops
S12444 S2253 Remove line Adams Racine to River
S12445 S1577 Remove line Division CH bays 3-4-5-6
S12446 S1051 Scrap shop equipment Burnside CH
S12447 S1127 Scrap shop equipment
S12448 S1167 Renew feeder Milwaukee/Honore, Evergreen to Wolcott
R12449 R415 Submarine phone cable Wells/Wacker to Mdse Mart offices
S12450 S1099 Scrap shop equipment
S12451 S1713 Install E-S curve Kedzie/Lake
R12452 R347 Move 2 columns Lake/Kedzie
S12453 S1403 Scrap trucks #554,144, buy #586,179, move bodies
S12454 S1388 Concrete floor – South Shops
S12455 S1312 Renew skylight – South Shops
S12456 S1381 Relocate storerooms – South Shops
S12457 S1092 Concrete floor – Grand/Leavitt
S12458 canx Build storerooms – West Shops
S12459 S1317 Partition wall – West Shops
S12460 S1468 Bus hoists – West Shops
S12461 S1874 Bus hoists – South Shops
S12462 S1311 Remove special work Ashland/21st
S12463 S1363 Install x-over Chicago east of Kedzie
S12464 S1182 Remove special work Pulaski/16th
S12465 S1237 Remove MOEC, install lever 69/Ashland W-S
S12466 S1721 Renew special work Clark/washington
R12467 R322 Relay crossings, Austin and Humphrey – LK
S12468 S1339 Light & heat Halsted/23rd
S12469 S1597 Fire alarm system – Beverly Gar
S12470 S1596 Fire alarm system – North Park Gar
S12471 S1843 Power & light facilities – South Shops
S12472 S1225 Remove poles Kedzie/Archer
S12473 S1226 Remove pole Crosby/Elm
S12474 S1135 Remove line Kedzie/Arthington pocket
S12475 S1394 Lights – Cicero/Pensacola term
S12476 S1999 Lights – West Shops
S12477 S1389 Lights – South Shops
S12478 S1792 Renew trough 63rd e of Wallace
S12479 S1318 Lights – West Shops
S12480 S1369 Shop equipment
R12481 R410 Shop equipment
S12482 S1438 Shop equipment
S12483 S1633 Shop equipment
S12484 S1209 10 A-frames to attach plows to trucks
S12485 S1266 Shop equipment
S12486 S1404 Shop equipment
S12487 S1241 Shop equipment
G12488 G196 Office equipment
G12489 G171 Office equipment
S12490 S1333 Real estate – Lincoln/Whipple

R12491 R286 Sell real estate – Harrison/Kenton
S12492 S1332 Renew special work Monroe/Wells
S12493 S1429 Concrete floor – South Shops
R12494 R421 Addition to inspection shops – Kimball Yd
R12495 R709 New feeder 20th Sub to RT, rem feeder 21st Subs
S12496 S1921 Electrical alterations – West Shops
S12497 S2611 Shop equipment
S12498 S2612 Shop equipment
S12499 S2089 Shop equipment
S12500 S2616 Shop equipment
S12501 S2608 Shop equipment
S12502 S2613 Shop equipment
S12503 S2610 Shop equipment
S12504 S1723 Shop equipment
S12505 canx Shop equipment
S12506 S1210 Shop equipment
R12507 R290 Office equipment
S12508 S1242 ACF-Brill demo #2700 (rec’d 1/29/51)
S12509 S1355 Salvage from prior to 10/1/47 scrappings
S12510 S2122 Remove feeder Grand Crossing Sub to Stony Island/75th
R12511 R496 Remove interlocker, install handthrows, Lower Wilson terminal
S12512 S1714 Bus terminal Cicero/24th Pl
S12513 S1469 Real estate Cicero/24th Pl
G12514 G188 Office equipment
S12515 canx Shop equipment
R12516 R294 Scrap 75 RT Trail cars
S12517 S1148 Scrap salt buses BA5,BA15,BA13
S12518 S1600 Scrap shop equipment
S12519 S1227 Remove poles Division/Felton
S12520 S1247 Remove MOEC, install lever Roosevelt/Canal E-N
S12521 S1252 Remove MOEC, install tongue holder Wells/Adams N-E
S12522 S1294 Remove electric switch, install lever Wells/Harrison S-W
S12523 S1245 Remove tongue holder, install electric switch Emerald s of 79th
S12524 S1100 Retire truck #135
G12525 G177 Office equipment
S12526 S1705 Trolley buses #413-454
S12527 S1706 Trolley buses #455-687
S12528 S1739 Trolley buses #688-761
S12529 S1168 Renew trolley Halsted 32 to 33
S12530 S1166 Remove trolley curves Stony Island/73
S12531 S1683 Power & lites – South Shops
S12532 S1310 Remove x-over North e of Western
S12533 S1348 Remove track Archer Gar bay 4
R12534 R329 Realign Logan Sq terminal, add new x-over, 3rd platform in S yard
R12535 R369 Install turnstile & booth SB plat – Howard NSM
S12536 S2002 Construct quonset hut – Forest Glen
R12537 R285 Sell part of sta to City – Halsted Met Main
S12538 S1699 Put in service #5000-5499
S12539 S1351 Renew feeder Racine/Garfield
S12540 S2163 Convert Cicero to TB
R12541 R342 Install 1 and remove 1 turnout – Kimball Shop
R12542 R332 Door control signs – Chicago, Roosevelt NS
S12543 S1444 Mobile radiotelephones
R12544 R357 Addl trolley yard track 63rd Yard across 63rd into N Yard
S12545 S1644 Power & lights – South Shops

R12546 R532 Renew phone cable – NSM
R12547 R533 Renew phone cable – NSM
S12548 S1575 Remove x-overs 79th e of Halsted, Halsted n of 79th
S12549 S1395 Remove x-over Kedzie n of 51st
S12550 canx Renew deck Roosevelt e of Michigan Viaduct
S12551 S1582 Remove special work except S-E curve Cottage Grove/115th
S12552 S1328 3 high-lift front end loaders #HL-7 – HL-9
S12553 S1770 Lincoln/Whipple terminal
S12554 S1398 Fork lift
S12555 S1201 4 Tarrant spreaders for #BA25,27,28,30
S12556 S1101 Retire E1, D213
S12557 S1470 Fork lift
S12558 S3506 Grade bus parking area – Forest Glen
S12559 S1882 Remodel toilet – Devon CH
G12560 G178 Office equipment
S12561 S1280 Remove track Madison/Springfield loophouse
R12562 canx Phone cables – Lake/Wells to Lake Transfer
R12563 R575 Move phones 79 W Monroe to Mdse Mart
S12564 S1295 Remove line Randolph Canal to Clinton
S12565 S1179 Phone pole – Avondale Yd
S12566 S1818 Put in service #413-761
R12567 R416 Pit in service #6131-6200
R12568 R498 Shop equipment
S12569 S1265 Remove EB track 38th Central Park to St Louis
S12570 S1343 Remove feeders S Chicago 75 to 79, 91 Baltimore to S Chicago, Baltimore 91 to S Chicago
S12571 S1291 Remove feeders S Chicago Sub
S12572 S1598 Automatic whistles – 16 carhouses
S12573 S1452 Heat & lites 111th/Harding terminal
S12574 S1297 Move poles Kedzie Cullom to Belle Plaine
S12575 S1187 Install x-over trolley Chicago e of Kedzie
R12576 R431 Alterations to Logan Sq Yard account new platform
S12577 S1974 Install E-N curve Van Buren/Kedzie
S12578 S1284 Renew trolley on Van Buren w of Kedzie
S12579 S1298 Remove line, lites Madison/Springfield loophouse for sale
S12580 S1115 Sell Western/Washington NW corner building
R12581 R384 Lighting on platform extensions – RV Sedgwick to Wellington
S12582 S1689 Bus terminal Pulaski/Peterson
R12583 R358 Shop equipment
R12584 R653 Road equipment
S12585 S1289 Install lever Van Buren/Wells W-S
S12586 S1819 Remove line North Av CH bays 2-3
R12587 R729 Scrap shop equipment Throop St Shop
S12588 S1552 Build toilet & locker room – South Shops
S12589 S1833 Compressed air lines – South Shops
G12590 G197 Office equipment
S12591 S1232 Install trolley E-S curve Lake/Kedzie
S12592 S1175 Renew feeder Wells Chicago to Chestnut
S12593 S1323 Alter Washington Tunnel E End a/c Wacker Dr
R12594 R403 Electrical changes – Kimball Shops
G12595 G181 Office equipment
G12596 G184 Office equipment
S12597 S2218 Convert North Ave CH for Propane buses
S12598 canx Convert North Ave Bus garage to trolley bus
S12599 S1877 Build rooms at South Shops
S12600 S1601 Intall OH crane South Shops

S12601 S1278 Scrap shop equipment
R12602 R508 Scrap fire cars S205-208,222,301
S12603 S1559 Scrap #AA35
S12604 canx Convert North Av CH bays 11-12 to TB
S12605 S1845 Convert North Av CH line to TB
S12606 S2464 Convert Grand to TB
S12607 S1440 Controls for gas furnace – South Shops
S12608 S1243 4 Tarrant spreaders for #BA18,19,29,31
R12609 R324 Extend platforms – Sedgwick,Armitage,Diversey,Wellington – RV
S12610 S1580 Lighting Cicero/24th Pl terminal
S12611 S1301 Road machinery
S12612 S1231 Install trolley Lake/Kedzie
R12613 R315 Power service North Av tower – Dearborn Subway
S12614 S1236 Install electric switch Kedzie N of Jackson
S12615 S1216 Renew feeder South Shops
G12616 G187 Office equipment
R12617 R530 Switch heaters – Chicago Av NSM
S12618 S1322 Lighting – North/Winchester terminal
R12619 canx Toilet – Lawrence tower – NSM
R12620 canx Repaving – Skokie Shops
S12621 S1537 Fuel tank – Division/Western
S12622 S1457 Renew skylights – South Shops
S12623 S1571 15 snowplows
R12624 R304 Scrap shop equipment
S12625 canx Buy water mains under Lamon,Pierce – North Av CH
R12626 R572 Disconnect switches – Logan Sqare Terminal
S12627 S1772 Install W-S curve for “Y” Roscoe/Western
S12628 S1325 Install trolley Roscoe/Western “Y”
S12629 S1306 Remove track Riverview Loop
S12630 S1334 Real estate – Archer/Neva
S12631 S1560 Real estate – Grand/Nordica
S12632 S1276 Remove line Riverview Loop
S12633 S1150 City track paving costs 1950

AFE/AFR’s 1951 series

G13000 G182 Office equipment
R13001 R552 Misc equip – Dearborn Subway
R13002 R311 Replace cable – Cicero/DPK
S13003 S1359 Install lever, rem holder Pulaski/Lawrence E-S, install holder, remove lever Lawrence/Clark W-N, remove
lever Clark/Lawrence S-E
S13004 S1269 Renew feeder Harrison Loomis to Laflin
S13005 S1641 Pole account 1951
R13006 R678 Feeder cables 42nd Sub to 40th/Wabash
R13007 S2646,R802 Conduit 42nd Sub to 40/Wabash
G13008 G212 Office furniture
R13009 R411 Replace lighting – Ashland LK
S13010 S1275 Remove 2 poles California/Roscoe
S13011 S1302 Scrap E44, P5
S13012 canx Scrap BW3
S13013 S1445 Shop equipment
S13014 S1966 Shop equipment
S13015 S1340 Install lever Armitage/Cicero W-S, holder Cicero/Armitage N-E
S13016 S1303 Road machinery
R13017 R362 Renew crossing – Tower 18
G13018 G192 Office equipment
R13019 canx Agent chairs and registers – Dearborn Subway
S13020 S1251 Install MOEC Clark/Lawrence S-E
R13021 R543 Conv LaSalle Interlocking to auto – Dear Sub
S13022 S1561 Real estate Elston/Kentucky
S13023 S1274 Phone stub pole – Chicago/Kedzie
R13024 canx Train annunciator – Drake WB/DPK
R13025 R353 Extend platform Ashland LK
S13026 G199 General & administrative costs 1951
S13027 S2171 Shop equipment
S13028 S1507 Shop equipment
S13029 S1405 Shop equipment
S13030 S1393 Bus terminal Grand/Nordica
S13031 S1341 Heater Archer/Cicero terminal bldg
S13032 S1391 Remove line Commercial 91st to 93rd
R13033 R407 Starting lites LaSalle/Congress
R13034 R521 Replace air line – Linden EV
R13035 R526 Replace signal cables – Linden EV
S13036 S1307 Remove MOEC, install holder Pershing/Indiana W-S
S13037 S1384 Remove x-over trolley Kedzie N of 51st
S13038 S1293 Remove electrick sw, install lever Lake/Milwaukee W-NW, Lake/Franklin E-S
S13039 S1376 Generator set for line trucks
S13040 S1399 Office equipment
S13041 S1258 Office equipment
G13042 G185 Office equipment
S13043 S1789 Lighting – South Shops
S13044 S1375 Buses #2701-2750
S13045 S1467 Put in service #2701-2750
S13046 S1370 Retire truck #548
S13047 S1380 Remove poles Baltimore 91st to S Chicago
S13048 S1349 Install MOEC Dearborn/Van Buren N-W
S13049 S1350 Install electric sw State/Harrison S-W
S13050 S1277 Renew feeder Pershing Lowe to Wallace
S13051 S1314 Remove MOEC Pulaski/Elston S-SE

S13052 S1309 Remove MOEC Elston S of Lawrence x-over
S13053 S1315 Remove electric sw Division/Elston W-NW,E-SE
S13054 S1316 Remove electric sw Randolph/Wells W-N
S13055 S1610 Lighting Lincoln/Whipple terminal
S13056 S1436 Substation safety equipment
S13057 S1562 Replace main switch & panel 69th CH
R13058 R418 Shop equipment
S13059 S1259 Scrap school cars 1466,2626
S13060 S1260 Scrap #1074 (burned 12/16/50)
S13061 S1406 Retire autos #58,60,74,75,88-90,94-96,552A,526A,528A,530A,534A,537A,540A,543A,548A
R13062 R589 Move Power Supervision equipment to Mdse Mart
S13063 S1360 Renew track California/North
G13064 G186 Office equipment
S13065 S1581 Overhead crane South Shops
R13066 R386 Shuttle platform, turnout, remove E-SE switch Damen HPK
G13067 G203 Office equipment
G13068 G189 Office furniture
S13069 S1651 Bus terminal Elston/Kentucky
S13070 S1304 Shop equipment
S13071 S2062 Shop equipment
G13072 G195 Office furniture
R13073 R480 Shop equipment
S13074 S1292 Remove electric sw Division/Wells W-N
S13075 S1460 Renew feeder Clark Diversey to Schubert
S13076 S1528 Remove track Kedzie Elston to Montrose
S13077 S2354 Propane facilities 77th Gar
S13078 S1361 Remove track Cortland Bridge
S13079 S1282 Sell real estate Ewing/101st
S13080 S1344 Remove x-over trolley Halsted N of 79th
S13081 S1456 Renew spans Kedzie 55th to Marquette
R13082 R484 Replace Fullerton Sub interruptors
S13083 S2520 Renew feeders Illinois Sub to Grand Bridge
S13084 S1483 Renew poles, trolley Cottage Grove/115th Loop
S13085 S1478 Road equipment
S13086 S1299 REnew feeders Blue Island Sub
S13087 S1595 Lighting – West Shops
R13088 canx Replace cable holders Armitage NSM
S13089 S3120 Remove line Elston Milwaukee to Lawrence, Elston CH
S13090 S1320 Remove poles S Chicago 72nd to 91st
S13091 S2016 Lighting – North Ave CH bays 1-2
S13092 S1305 Road equipment
S13093 S1321 Shop equipment
S13094 S1712 Shop equipment
S13095 S1261 Scrap streetcar #5347 (Fire 01/09/51)
S13096 S1620 Electric switch heaters Clark/Drummond,Schubert
S13097 S1407 Scrap auto #533A
S13098 S1471 Scrap auto #546A
S13099 S2161 Build 2 offices & vault – North Av CH
S13100 S1392 Remove feeder Cottage Grove 93rd to 95th, 93rd Cottage Grove to Burnside CH
S13101 S1345 Remove x-over trolley 79th E of Halsted
S13102 S2196 Shop equipment
S13103 S1335 10 motors, 5 armatures for #413-761
S13104 S1941 Bus terminal Archer/Neva
S13105 S1431 Road equipment
R13106 R363 Road equipment

S13107 S1377 Generators for squad cars
R13108 R348 Renew feeder Western Maypole to Lake
S13109 S1608 Shop equipment
S13110 S1262 Shop equipment
S13111 S1279 Retire salt buses BA104, BA105
S13112 S1529 Convert Navy Pier loop to bus loop, remove track
S13113 S1364 Remove track North Ave w of Elston C&NW underpass
S13114 S1362 Remove track Belmont River Bridge approaches
S13115 S1283 Sell real estate South Park/63rd
S13116 S1585 Remove weight pole Halsted s of Division Bridge
S13117 S1754 Renew W-S switch 69th/Marshfield
S13118 S1365 Remove W-S witch Division/Sedgwick
S13119 S1563 Renew track Ashland 66th to 69th
S13120 S1831 Renew track ashland 59th to 60th
S13121 S2331 Remove electric sw, install lever Division/Clark W-N
S13122 S1650 Remove electric sw Clark/Armitage NW-W, Clark/Wells SE-E, remove elec sw, install lever Clark/Lincoln SE-W
S13123 S1701 Remove electric sw Chicago/Wells E-S
S13124 S1619 Remove electric sw Harrison/Clark W-N, remove MOEC Dearborn/Harrison N-W, install levers
S13125 S2028,S374 Hand trucks
G13126 G193 Office equipment
R13127 R387 Renew crossing – Pine LK
S13128 S1968 Shop equipment
S13129 S1433 Abandon conduit Kingsbury Chicago to Erie
S13130 S1434 Abandon conduit Erie Kingsbury to Franklin
S13131 S1472 Retire 200 streetcars
S13132 S1492 Buy real estate Milwaukee/Central
S13133 S1439 Shop equipment
S13134 S1329 Scrap S54, W93
S13135 S1330 Scrap W217 (fire 03/05/51)
S13136 S1709 Shop equipment
S13137 S1371 Shop equipment
S13138 S1372 Shop equipment
R13139 R397 Renew deck T3 Barry to Belmont NSM
R13140 R383 Wreck Ravenswood sta bldg RV
S13141 S1801 Remove special work, x-over Cottage Grove N of 111th
S13142 S1702 Remove electric sw Lincoln/Larrabee SE-S, Chicago/Larrabee W-N
S13143 S1655 Remove electric sw, install levers Grand/Wabash E-S,N-E, State/Grand S-E
R13144 R359 Extend T31, retire T33,35,37,39 63rd Lower north Yd
R13145 R388 Yard lighting – Skokie Shops
S13146 S1715 Install electric sw Clark/N end Limits CH S-W
S13147 S1832 Lighting North Av CH
S13148 S1408 Retire auto #91
R13149 R553 Renew phone cable hangers GPK, LK
R13150 R350 Renew phone cable hangers EV
R13151 R352 Renew phone cable hangers SSM
S13152 S1556 Remove MOEC Lincoln/Ashland NW-N
S13153 S1997 Remove electric sw Armitage/Lincoln W-NW
S13154 S1379 Retire conduit Wells Polk to Taylor
13155 not used
R13156 R414 Shop equipment
S13157 S1743 Remove track 47th State to Cottage Grove
S13158 S1409 Retire auto #93
S13159 S2265 Remove line Division Wells to Crosby, Halsted to Mozart
S13160 S1589 Remove poles 25th Kedzie to Lawndale
S13161 S1383 Remove line Washington/Western CH

S13162 S2083 Abandon conduit Erie Ashland to Racine
R13163 R340 Remove part of Clark SB platform NSM
S13164 S1802 Remove NE-E switch, x-over s of 75th on Vincennes
S13165 S1410 Shop equipment
S13166 S1602 Shop equipment
S13167 S1564 Parts for MH trolley buses
R13168 S335 Scrap flat car #S303 (wrecked)
S13169 S1331 Scrap streetcar #1098 (burned)
S13170 S2109 Retire conduit Sangamon Adams to Hubbard
S13171 canx Remove x-over trolley Chicago W of Clark
S13172 S2145 Retire conduit Racine Erie to Hubbard
S13173 S1424 Install pole Milwaukee/Cleaver
R13174 R412 Road equipment
G13175 G194 Office equipment
S13176 S1808 Remove x-overs 63rd W of Cicero, W of Lamon
R13177 S341 Remove sand shed 63rd Lower Yd
S13178 S1366 Remove track Elston CH yard
R13179 R376 Relay curve T4 EB Canal – Met Main
S13180 S2852 Remove UG feeder Van Buren tunnel
S13181 S1932 Real estate 35th/Cottage Grove
S13182 S1646 Remove trolley 47th Kedzie to Cottage Grove
S13183 S1281 Sell Elston CH
R13184 R317 Sell real estate Taylor/Paulina
S13185 S1382 Remove line Pershing/Wallace Yard
S13186 S1660 Negative feeder 47th State to Indiana
S13187 S2207 Shop equipment
S13188 S1825 Shop equipment
R13189 R534 Shop equipment
R13190 R550 Shop equipment
S13191 S1684 Remove rail 59th Western to Ashland
R13192 R404 Renew footwalk Mdse Mart to Grand NSM
S13193 S1798 Intercom Western/Division SR
S13194 S2683 Remove trolley & lighting 69th/Emerald CH s half, 8 of 11 tracks n half
S13195 S1612 Remove MOEC Grand/North NW-W,E-SE, electric sw Grand/State W-N, Wabash W-S, Streeter E-SE
S13196 S1686 Remove track 47th Ashland to Western
R13197 R479 Lighting – Laramie Terminal new receivers office GPK
R13198 R460 Remove Old Congress Terminal – SSM
R13199 S459 Remove Congress/Wabash – SSM
R13200 R433 Scrap shop equipment
S13201 S1373 Office equipment
S13202 S1521 Remove MILW xings Grand/Kingsbury
S13203 S1546 Remove special work Cottage Grove/67th
S13204 S1868 Remove switches Dry Kiln leads S Shops
S13205 S1544 Remove special work Halsted/Canalport
S13206 S2203 Remove electric sw 47th/Cottage Grove W-N,Lake Park E-SE,Halsted E-N,Racine W-S
S13207 S2876 Convert Pulaski to TB
S13208 S1809 Heating Division/Western SR
S13209 S1565 Renew track Clark Madison to Monroe
S13210 S1679 Remove CJRY xings 35th/Iron
S13211 S1547 Remove CJRY xings 35th/Racine
R13212 R381 Trolley rail cutting gaps, lites Harding LK
S13213 S1551 Renew track Halsted/viaduct S of Kinzie
S13214 S1669 Remove track Damen Hubbard to Roosevelt
S13215 S1554 Remove track Damen Milwaukee to Hubbard
R13216 R392 Renew deck EB – Indiana SY

G13217 G190 Office equipment
R13218 R559 Construct vault – Wells Terminal
R13219 R743 Move columns Franklin/Ontario NSM
S13220 S1396 Renew feeder 48th Hermitage to Marshfield
R13221 R399 Renew deck Franklin/Illinois SB NSM
R13222 R400 Renew deck Indiana pocket SY
S13223 S1566 Parts for #2701-2750
S13224 canx Renew feeder Clark/Adams
S13225 S1894 Scrap trolley buses #86-91,106-107,157
R13226 R510 Scrap 50 RT motor cars
S13227 S1840 Remove rail 77th Yard at new propane tank site
S13228 S1516 Remove rail Indiana/Bridge s of 134th
S13229 S1397 Move pole Fifth/Central Park
S13230 S1385 Remove feeder Taylor Ashland to Paulina
S13231 S1402 Remove feeder Honore 47th to 49th
S13232 S1988 Remove feeder, poles, abandon conduit Racine Fullerton to Clybourn
S13233 S1400 Retire conduit Fulton Ashland to Paulina
S13234 S1989 Retire conduit Morgan Fulton to Randolph
R13235 R395 Scrap RT car #1779 (fire 04/13/51)
R13236 R333 Real estate to city 310 S Market
S13237 S1353 Real estate to city 324 S Market
S13238 S1354 Real estate to city 328 S Market
S13239 S1628 Retire gas buses #1301-1309, conv 1301,1305,1308-1309 to BW5-BW8
S13240 S3121 Remove line Damen Fullerton to Blue Island
S13241 S3152 Remove line Lincoln Armitage to Peterson
S13242 S1542 Retire sand drier & sand house – South Shops
S13243 S3122 Remove line Sheffield Clark to Lincoln
R13244 R434 Retire shop equipment
R13245 R349 Replace feeder – Paulina GPK
S13246 S1386 Remove trolley 77th yard tracks at new propane facility site
S13247 S1567 Retire autos #84,542A,549A
S13248 S1488 Install TB bypass line Belmont/Halsted loop
R13249 R439 Real estate 21st/Kilbourn for transfer station
R13250 R354 Sell real estate 21st/Kostner
S13251 S2110 Remove line 92nd Buffalo to Exchange
S13252 S1517 Remove BRC,CRI&P xings Ewing/Harbor
S13253 S1811 Shop equipment
S13254 S1603 Shop equipment
S13255 S1696 Shop equipment
S13256 S1630 Shop equipment
R13257 R379 Shop equipment
S13258 S1626 Shop equipment
S13259 S1734 Lighting along E side of bldgs Lake to Washington – West Shops
R13260 R377 Relay curve – Sacramento WB GPK
R13261 R393 Relay curve – TK4 Market/Van Buren EB GPK
S13262 S1458 Cover pits Lincoln CH bays 1-2
S13263 S1515 Remove track Montrose bridge
S13264 S1936 Renew feeder Clark Burton to Goethe
R13265 R606 Shop equipment
R13266 S1627 Scrap 68 service streetcars
R13267 S1512 Scrap 200 streetcars
S13268 S2111 Remove line Buffalo 89th to 92nd
S13269 S2112 Remove line 89th Buffalo to Ave O
S13270 S2004 Remove electric sw Blue Island/Damen NE-N, Leavitt NE-N
S13271 S2406 Remove line 87th Commercial to Halsted

S13272 S2176 Remove line 95th Cottage Grove to Michigan, State to Lafayette
S13273 S2222 Remove line Exchange 92nd to 93rd
S13274 S1487 Move poles Damen/Madison
S13275 S1587 Lighting West Shops
S13276 S1524 Move pole Damen/Harrison
S13277 S1450 Move pole Damen/Milwaukee
S13278 S1975 Real estate Grand/Latrobe
S13279 S1895 Ad frames #2701-2750
S13280 S1623 Relay track Clark Jackson to Van Buren
S13281 S1490,R398 Extend storage track under 61st Yard SSM
S13282 S1540 Remove track 47th Ashland to Racine
S13283 S1525 Remove track 87th Halsted to Eggleston
R13284 R402 2 cutting gaps in 3rd rail – Kimball east pocket track RV
S13285 S2115 Remove line 93rd Exchange to Cottage Grove
S13286 S1418 Renew feeder Vincennes/78th
S13287 S1459 Remove line Desplaines Van Buren to Harrison
S13288 S1474 Remove track Desplaines Van Buren to Harrison
S13289 S2932 Rearrange feeders vicinity Blue Island Sub
S13290 S1446 2 spare engines for Ford buses
S13291 S2189 Pave yard, install fence – Lawndale CH
S13292 S1759 Remove track Lawndale CH bay 8
S13293 S1476 Remove special work Western/47th
S13294 S1538 Remove track PROW west of Stony Island/94th
S13295 S1535 Remove open track Stony Island 69th Pl to 93rd
S13296 S2105 Remove line 36th Kedzie to California
S13297 S2743 Remove line 35th California to Cottage Grove
S13298 S2054 Remove line California 35th to 36th
S13299 S2033 Radio telephones for squad cars
S13300 S1568 Shop equipment
S13301 S1419 Renew feeder Pershing Halsted to Emerald
S13302 S2146 Remove line Clinton Van Buren to Harrison
S13303 S2165 Remove feeders S Chicago Sub
S13304 S2202 Remove electric sw, install lever Cottage Grove/93 N-E
S13305 S1449 Renew feeder Halsted 32nd to 36th
G13306 G205 Office equipment
S13307 canx Window ad frames cars & buses
R13308 R537 Rem 8 block signals – Adams to Marshfield LSQ
R13309 R406 Alter Lawrence Interlocking limits NSM
S13310 S1652 Lighting – Elston/Kentucky terminal
S13311 S1654 Lighting – Archer/Neva terminal
S13312 canx Move poles Canal/Van Buren, Canal/Harrison
R13313 R478 Rem 2 block signals – Division curve LSQ
S13314 S1607 Grand/Streeter terminal
S13315 S1523 Remove MILW xings Lincoln/George
R13316 R554 Steam generator – Throop St Shop (not installed)
S13317 S1847 Remove track Roosevelt river to Wabash, install N-E curve, turnout Roosevelt/Wabash
S13318 S1522 Remove IC,B&OCT xings 92nd/Baltimore
S13319 S1976 Real estate – Montrose/Milwaukee
S13320 S2041 Propane facility – Lawndale CH
S13321 S1672 New line, replacing shoofly Halsted Van Buren to Harrison
S13322 canx Remove line Leavitt 24th to Blue Island
S13323 S1982 Remove electric sw Armitage/Milwaukee E-SE, MOEC Armitage/California W-N
S13324 S1477 Replace 5 Sand spreaders on #570-573,575
S13325 S1697 Shop equipment
S13326 S1451 Renew feeders, switches Roseland Sub

S13327 S1967 Grand/Latrobe terminal
R13328 S2246/R633 Logan Square bus terminal, new entrance to station
S13329 S3000 Convert Chicago to TB
S13330 S1613 Remove track 47th Racine to Halsted
S13331 S1643 New track, replacing shoofly Halsted Van Buren to Harrison
S13332 S1484 Renew feeder Clark Grand to Ohio
S13333 S1443 Install trolley N-E curve and turnout Roosevelt/Wabash, install MOEC N-E curve
R13334 canx Overhead for x-over – Austin/LK
S13335 S1928 Additional real estate Lincoln/Whipple
R13336 R430 Renew switch #49 – 59th Jct SB SSM
R13337 R364 Conv 3135,3136 to #S304-S305
S13338 S1547 Install shoofly Madison/Wacker
S13339 S1813 Remove special work Lawrence/Clark, except W-N,W-S “Y”
G13340 G200 Office equipment
S13341 S1685 Lighting – West Shops
G13342 G209 Office equipment
S13343 S1970 16 TB hose bridges, 9 carts #469-473,996-999
S13344 S1550 Remove yard tracks Noble CH
S13345 S1464 Install trolley Madison/Wacker shoofly
S13346 S1681 Remove line Roosevelt river to Wabash
S13347 canx Retire school cars #4001,7001 (to sheds 05/04/53)
S13348 S1710 Shop equipment
S13349 S2103 Install levers Root/Halsted W-S,N-E, Root/Wallace E-N
S13350 S1548 Oil burner – Lawndale CH
S13351 S1846 Oil burner – Blue Island CH
S13352 S1781 Shop equipment
S13353 S1604 Office equipment
S13354 S1841 Remove track E bay 5 77th CH
S13355 S1411 Sell Noble CH
S13356 S1412 Sell vacant land – Cicero/LeMoyne
S13357 S1413 Sell vacant land – Western/Devon
S13358 S1545 Lighting – Lincoln/Wrightwood bus terminal
R13359 R396 Scrap RT cars #297,322,338 (fire 07/21/51)
S13360 S2249 Remove elec sw Halsted/Root N-E, Halsted/47 S-W, Root/Wallace E-N, Archer/Canal SW-S, Stony Island/64 S-W,
Cortland/Ashland E-S, MOEC Root/Halsted W-S, Racine/79 W-S,N-E, Cottage Grove/47 S-E, Cottage Grove/35 NW-W,
Ashland/Cortland N-W
S13361 S1530 Renew feeder Cottage Grove Calumet to 33rd
S13362 S2050 Shop equipment
S13363 S1855 Scrap shop equipment
S13364 canx Remove line Armitage Grand to California,Milwaukee to Clark
S13365 S1579 Renew feeder Washington Tunnel E end
S13366 S1569 4 Salt spreaders for #BA16,20,32,35
R13367 R417 Install power Skokie Shops Unit #2
S13368 S2108 Lighting – Blue Island CH Instructors office, storeroom bay 7
R13369 R409 Column footing Bent 89 – Aberdeen/Lake
S13370 S1690 31st/Komensky terminal
S13371 S1496 Retire track Harrison Clark to Clinton, Franklin Harrison to Van Buren, Wells Harrison to Van Buren,
Canalport Canal to Halsted, Clinton Roosevelt to Harrison
S13372 S1485 Retire track Canal Harrison to Canalport, Roosevelt Austin to Paulina, Ashland to Wabash
S13373 S1497 Retire track Van Buren Halsted to Kedzie
S13374 S1420 Retire track 87th Vincennes to Commercial, Buffalo to Burley
S13375 S1489 Retire track Stony Island 94th to 56th, 56th Lake Park to Stony Island, Lake Park 47th to 56th, 47th
Cottage Grove to Lake Shore Dr, Harper-Cable Court-Lake Park loop, 93rd Cottage Grove to Stony Island
S13376 S1427 Retire track Cortland Wood to river, Paulina Cortland to Armitage, Armitage Grand to California, Milwaukee
to Paulina

S13377 S150µ Retire track 95th Michigan to Cottage Grove, State to Lafayette, 93rd Stony Island to Exchange, Exchange
93rd to 92nd, 92nd Exchange to Buffalo, Buffalo 92nd to 89th, 89th Buffalo to Ave O, Baltimore 91st to
S Chicago, 83rd Brandon to Burley
S13378 S1506 Retire track Racine 87th to 47th, 47th Racine to Halsted, Wallace 29th to Pershing, 29th Wallace to Canal,
Canal 29th to Archer
S13379 S1423 Retire track Damen Blue Island to Fullerton
S13380 S1417 Retire track 36th Kedzie to California, California 36th to 35th, 35th California to Cottage Grove
S13381 S1425 Retire track Grand Harlem to wester, Leavitt to Wells
S13382 S1426 Retire track Lawrence Austin to Broadway
S13383 S1442 Retire track Lincoln Peterson to Wrightwood, Halsted to Armitage, Armitage Lincoln to Clark, Larrabee
Lincoln to Oak, Sheffield Clark to Lincoln
S13384 S1428 Retire track Armitage Lincoln to Racine,racine Armitage to Cortland, Cortland Racine to River
S13385 S1422 Retire track Division Mozart to Western, Oakley to Halsted, Crosby to Wells
S13386 S1421 Retire track Elston Milwaukee to Lawrence
S13387 S1843 Renlay track Clark Van Buren to Harrison
S13388 S1493 Office equipment
S13389 S1501 Replace poles Montrose/river
S13390 S1624 Lincoln/Wrightwood terminal
S13391 S1844 Alterations degreasing room – South Shops
S13392 S1836 Remove track 35th/Western,Ashland,Halsted,Wentworth,State
R13393 R429 Platform extension for 6 cars – Logan Square
S13394 S3134 Remove line Stony Island 94th to 56th except 63rd to 64th
S13395 S1673 Shop equipment
S13396 S1500 Shop equipment
S13397 S1688 Power & lighting – South Shops
S13398 S2003 Spare propane pump
S13399 S1950 Renew feeder Indiana/44h
S13400 S2311 Remove line 56th Lake Park to Stony Island
S13401 S2407 Remove line Lake Park 47th to 56th
S13402 S2906 Convert 47th to TB
S13403 S2408 Remove line 29th Wallace to Canal
S13404 S3130 Remove line Racine 47th to 87th
S13405 S1494 30 Fire extinguishers for radio cars
R13406 R456 Replace boiler – Pulaski Shops DPK
S13407 S1543 Concrete floor – South Shops
S13408 S3123 Remove line Wallace Root to Archer
S13409 S1520 Remove IC xings 79th/Exchange
S13410 S1916 Real estate 31st/Komensky
S13411 canx Emergency valve front doors #5000-5499 (tested on #5107)
S13412 S3135 Remove line Larrabee Crosby to Lincoln
S13413 S3128 Remove line Canal 29th to Archer
S13414 S2805 Remove line Lawndale CH
R13415 R472 Line over track E of incline – 63rd Yard SSM
S13416 S1724 Shop equipment
S13417 S1519 Remove C&NW xings Elston/Blackhawk
S13418 S1504 Renew feeder 26th Wabash to Michigan
S13419 s1693 Renew feeder Indiana/23rd
S13420 S2030 Replace 2 propane dispensers – North Ave
S13421 S2386 Replace 4 propane dispensers – North Park
S13422 S2053 18000 gal propane tank – 77th
R13423 R413 Office equipment
S13424 S1859 Remove poles Archer/35th, Hamilton
R13425 R424 Track pit – Kimball Yd Tk 15
S13426 S1499 Renew feeders Cottage Grove/60th
S13427 S1729 Remove line Roosevelt Austin to river

S13428 S2251 Extend propane island canopy – North Av CH
R13429 R444 Redeck curve T2 Sheridan NSM
R13430 R445 Redeck curve T2 Dakin NSM
R13431 R446 Redeck curve T3 Sheridan NSM
R13432 R419 Road machinery
R13433 R435 Floor scrubber
S13434 S1518 Remove track Canalport/18th
S13435 S313 Remove line Canalport Halsted to Canal
S13436 S1510 Scrap 200 streetcars
S13437 S2472 Canopy over propane dispensers – 77th
S13438 S2059 Canopy over propand dispensers – Lawndale
S13439 S1461 City costs to pve track 1951
S13440 S1765 Install pole State/Congress
S13441 S1805 Install 4 poles Clark/Congress
S13442 S2005 Remove MOEC Pulaski/Ogden N-NE
S13443 S1703 Remove electric sw Desplaines/Randolph N-W
S13444 S2431 Remove electric sw Clinton/Lake N-E
S13445 S1708 Remove electric sw, install holder Dearborn/randolph S-W
R13446 R620 Scrap shop equipment
S13447 S1527 Redeck Madison bridge
S13448 S1653 Redeck Halsted bridge n of Archer
R13449 canx Cottage Grove/35th bus terminal
S13450 canx Renew feeder Cottage Grove/58th
G13451 G208 Office equipment
S13452 S3577 Remodel 2nd floor for classrooms – Limits
S13453 S447 Relay curve T4 Dakin to Sheridan NSM
S13454 S1609 Additional roadway & platform – 79th/Western
R13455 R443 Lighting on platform extensions – Logan Square
S13456 S1856 Install 4 poles Dearborn/Congress
S13457 S1455 Sell real estate – 62nd/Oakley
R13458 R586 Changes & additions – #6001-6200
S13459 S1625 Relay track Clark randolph to washington
S13460 R682 Feeder cable – Illinois St Sub to RT
G13461 G201 Office equipment
S13462 S1649 Renew track Madison/Damen
S13463 S1647 Remove line 77th CH bay 5
S13464 S1631 Scr BA9,BA10,BW1,1101,1102,3119
S13465 S1495 #1231-1238 to #BA36-BA43
S13466 S1757 Shop equipment
S13467 S2877 TB line 31st/Komensky loop
S13468 S1498 Retire track Ogden Kenton to Pulaski, Cermak to Randolph, Randolph Ogden to Bridge
R13469 R517 Renew engine in crane S216
R13470 R556 Construct air compressor bldg – Skokie Shops
S13471 R2148 Power & lighting – Lawndale
S13472 canx Remove line Lawndale CH front of bays 2-6-7
R13473 R602 Auto controls whistles & horns – shops
S13474 S1514 Retire track 79th Ashland to Halsted, State to Brandon
S13475 S1508 Retire track Pulaski Bryn Mawr to Cermak, 26th to 31st, 31st Pulaski to Kostner, North Pulaski to Cicero
S13476 S1815 Install E-N, remove S-E curve Desplaines/Madison
S13477 S1848 Guard rail – North Park propane island
R13478 R458 New station – Central Park DPK
R13479 R988 Remove Drake plat & bldg, Lawndale plat DPK, part of 18th SSM, stairs at Oak NSM
S13480 S1645 Remove special work Ashland/Belmont
S13481 S1698 Renew track Clark Armitage to Dickens
R13482 R426 Platform extension – Merchandise Mart NB S end

S13483 S1614 Install electric sw Washington/LaSalle E-S
S13484 S1615 Install electric sw Madison/Clinton W-N
R13485 R471 Rearrange Roosevelt,Wood,Douglas Pk stas – DPK
S13486 S2314 Remove line Canal Canalport to Harrison
S13487 S1694 Remove x-over trolley 63rd/Lamon, Cicero
S13488 S1695 Install E-N curve, remove S-E curve Madison/Desplaines
S13489 S1553 Renew feeder 77th CH bay 4
R13490 R380 Purchase royalties #6131-6200
S13491 S1621 20 A-frames for plow trucks
S13492 S1990 Renew trolley Ashland Clybourn to Southport/Clark
R13493 R561 Parking lot – 56th Ave DPK
S13494 S2200 Renew spans Central North to Lake
R13495 R655 Lighting – Central Pk DPK
S13496 S1860 Renew spans 71st California to western
S13497 S1588 Lighting – Grand/Streeter bus loop
R13498 R475 Remove elec – Drake,Lawndale DPK
S13499 S1926 Remove UG feeders Illinois Sub
S13500 S1632 Shop equipment
R13501 R571 Yard tracks – Skokie Shops
R13502 R420 Road machinery
S13503 canx Renew feeder Blue Island/Oakley
S13504 S1590 Renew feeder Clinton/Congress
S13505 S1904 Renew feeder Indiana/50th
S13506 S1591 Renew feeder Wentworth/62nd, 67th
S13507 S1657 Lighting 31st/Komensky
R13508 R511 Scrap 30 RT coaches
G13509 G207 Sell law books
R13510 R427 Lighting platform extension – Merchandise Mart
R13511 R578 Rearrange yard leads, install loop 54th Ave DPK
S13512 S2359 Remove electric sw Madison/LaSalle E-S
R13513 R512 Convert to AC – SR 43 Montrose/Broadway
R13514 R492 Remove interlocking, install switch stands S Park JPK
S13515 S1526 Install electric sw Washington/Clinton S-E
S13516 S1664 Remove lites & feeders – South Shops Machine shop
S13517 S3139 Remove line Randolph Canal to Ogden
R13518 R428 Road equipment
S13519 S2020 Road equipment
S13520 S2223 Remove line Polk Canal to River
S13521 S3144 Remove line Ogden Kenton to Randolph
S13522 S2469 Remove electric sw Van Buren/Dearborn E-S
S13523 S2439 Remove electric sw State/Harrison S-W
S13524 S2006 Remove electric sw Roosevelt/Paulina W-N
S13525 S2075 Remove electric sw Roosevelt/Ashland E-S
S13526 S2061 Remove MOEC Ogden/Roosevelt SW-W
S13527 S2470 Remove MOEC Dearborn/Van Buren N-W
S13528 S1674 Scrap autos #78,83,85,86,541A,553A
S13529 S2337 Remove lines Coles/79th pocket
R13530 R477 Air lines in track pits – Howard Yd
S13531 S1634 Shop equipment
S13532 canx Emergency valve front door #2700-2750
R13533 R513 Shop equipment
S13534 S1725 Shop equipment
R13535 R497 Replace interlocking with hand throws – Wells Terminal/Met Main
S13536 S1839 Remove track, pave Lawndale CH s end bays 3-5
S13537 S1629 Remove Pulaski/Lemoyne yard

S13538 S1648 Renew feeder Halsted 15th to 16th
S13539 S1906 Light & power – 77th bays 5-6
S13540 S1873 New line, remove shoofly Madison/Wacker
S13541 S1616 Install electric sw Clinton/Monroe N-E
S13542 S1617 Install electric sw Adams/Clinton W-N
S13543 S1618 Install electric sw Clinton/Monroe S-E
S13544 S2312 Install poles Washington/Maypole?
S13545 S2609 Remove electric sw 79th/Halsted W-N
S13546 S2822 Remove electric sw 79th/Vincennes E-NW
S13547 S2230 Remove electric sw Clinton/Washington S-E
S13548 S2430 Remove electric sw Madison/Clinton W-N
S13549 S2440 Remove MOEC, install lever State/Van Buren S-W
S13550 S2370 Remove electric sw Wells Bridge derail SB
S13551 S2256 Remove line Wells Clark to Lincoln, Kinzie to Chicago
S13552 S1774 Remove line Pulaski/Lemoyne Yd
S13553 S1570 Retire 10 #1201-1230, to salt buses BA44-BA53
R13554 R476 Const office 61st/Calumet SSM
R13555 R390 5 platforms for washing cars – Howard Yd
R13556 R389 2 platforms for washing cars – Logan Sq Yd
R13557 R454 Remove wood platform exts – HPK
R13558 R505 Fence – 63rd Yd SSM
R13559 R705 Remodel 1st floor – 61st Shop for frog shop
S13560 S1791 Renew lighting – Limits office
S13561 S2642 Remove line Wells Harrison to Kinzie
S13562 S2315 Remove line Clinton Harrison to Roosevelt
S13563 S1636 Replace 5 sand spreaders on #165,174,561,R53,R57
S13564 S1576 Retire track Blue Island CH vicinity
S13565 S1509 Retire track Wells Chicago to Lincoln, Van Buren to Kinzie
S13566 S1536 Retire track Division Wells to Clark
S13567 S1511 Retire track Cicero Montrose to Roosevelt, North Av CH
S13568 S1656 Remove facing switches Clark/Armitage, Wells
S13569 S1513 Sell real estate Van Buren/Halsted to city
S13570 S1611 Shop equipment
S13571 S1592 Renew cable Van Buren tunnel
S13572 S2333 Conv east bay 5 for buses – 77th

AFE/AFR’s 1952 series

S14000 S2008 4002-4051,7002-7034 to one-man
S14001 S1914 3325,3347-3349,3351,3352,3354,3355,3357,3360-3363,3368,3372,3378,3379,6303,6305,6310,6319 to one-man
S14002 S1675 Road machinery
R14003 R432 Wood pole – Evanston/Isabella
S14004 S3155 Remove line Van Buren Halsted to Canal
S14005 S2409 Remove line Franklin Harrison to Adams
S14006 S3157 Remove line Harrison Clark to Clinton
S14007 S1767 Remove trolley North Av Pulaski to Lamon
R14008 R647 Elec equip – 54th Av DPK
G14009 G229 Office equipment
S14010 S1937 Pole account 1952
S14011 S2018 4052-4061,7035-7044 to one-man
S14012 S1738 Lighting – South Shops
S14013 S1668 Lighting – 93rd/S Chicago salt yard
R14014 R488 Repl interlock w hand throws SB xover S of Belmont NSM
R14015 R487 Repl interlock w hand throws NB xover S of Belmont NSM
S14016 S1593 Renew feeder Halsted/14th
S14017 S1818 Renew track Clark Sheffield to Addison
G14018 G202 Office equipment
S14019 S1799 5-ton scale – S Shops
S14020 S1666 Replace floor – South Shops
S14021 R422 RT motor 3134 to #S306
S14022 S1952 Move poles Broadway/Devon
S14023 S1716 Lighting – Clark/Howard loop
R14024 R608 New platform, repl DSS w turnout Logan Sq term
R14025 R453 Remove streetcar xings – Cicero DPK
S14026 S1663 Scr 8024,9019,9027,9032,9035 at North Av Yd
S14027 S1594 Replace feeder Harrison/Desplaines
S14028 S1768 Install TB line Archer Gar bay 9
S14029 S2878 Install TB line Montrose Pulaski to Elston for Pulaski short loop
S14030 S1775 Install manhole Clark/Congress
S14031 S1707 Shop equipment
S14032 canx Remove E-N, renew S-E curve Cermak/Wabash
S14033 S2399 Renew track State 35th to Pershing
S14034 S1896 1700 ad signs front end of buses
S14035 S1718 Move poles Western/35th
S14036 S1719 Move poles State/35th
S14037 S1720 Move poles Wentworth/35th
S14038 S1824 New track Madison/Wacker, remove shoofly
R14039 R436 Retire trucks #700,701
S14040 S1667 Remove UG cable – S Shops yard
S14041 S1635 Shop equipment
G14042 G221 Master Clock system – Mdse Mart
S14043 R452 Remove DPK Oak Park Ave to 56th Ave
S14044 S1897 Scr BA6-BA8,BA11,BA12,BA14,BA109
R14045 R440 Shop equipment
R14046 canx Renew NB RV off crossings #2,4 Clark Jct
R14047 R425 Sell RT motor car #3120 to Matisa Equip Corp
R14048 R450 Remove elec equip DPK Oak Park Av to 54th Av
R14049 R698 Remove canopy W platform Lower Wilson sta
R14050 R761 Build new bus and RT terminal – 54th Ave DPK
R14051 R522 Repl interlock w hand throws 2 x-overs Montrose NSM
R14052 R495 Feeder cable – Kimball Yd

S14053 S1763 Parts for #5000-5499
S14054 S1605 20 of #1201-1230 to salt buses BA54-BA73
R14055 canx Modernize Wilson shop equipment
S14056 S2043 Remove x-over Western n of Archer
R14057 R474 Remove leads to Lower Wilson – Montrose NSM
G14058 G218 General & Admin charges 1952
G14059 G215 Office equipment
S14060 S1959 Shop equipment
S14061 S1920 Scrap 18 trolley buses, convert 102,85 to 926-927
S14062 S2410 Remove line Division Clark to Wells
S14063 S2352 Remove feeders Van Buren Sub
R14064 R462 Remodel trainroom into office – Loomis SSM
S14065 S2076 Locker room – South Shops
S14066 S1735 Move pole Harrison/Blue Island
S14067 S1773 Remove pole State/51st
S14068 S3158 Remove poles from 82nd via Haslted-Summit-Vincennes to 88th
S14069 S2082 Power outlets – S Shops
S14070 S1903 Renew x-over 77th CH bay 1 West east end
S14071 S1812 New floor – 77th CH bay 1 West east end
R14072 R604 Door holders #2 end cars #6001-6200
G14073 G217 Office furniture
G14074 G204 Office equipment
S14075 S1931 Shop furniture
R14076 R654 Sanders cars #6001-6200
S14077 S2618 Retire multifare registers M1-60,M501-540 from 4002-4051,7002-7034
R14078 R574 Lighting platform ext – Logan Sq Term
S14079 S1838 79th/Lakefront terminal
S14080 S1670 Install manhole Van Buren/Jefferson
R14081 R547 Automatic gates – Kostner DPK
R14082 S1662 Retire preheaters – Avondale Yd
S14083 S1671 Remove feeder Kinzie Wells to State
S14084 S1711 Buy GE spare control equip for MH trolley buses at Division School
R14085 R449 Shop equipment
S14086 S1676 Retire shop equipment – Noble CH
S14087 S1677 Shop equipment
S14088 S1776 Remove TB “Y” at Central/Fulton, install new TB “Y” at Central/West End
R14089 R473 Ladies toilet – Skokie Shops Unit 1
S14090 S1820 Renew track Clark Sheffield to Belmont
S14091 S1816 Remove special work Clark/Sheffield
S14092 S2433 Renew special work State/63rd
S14093 canx Renew special work 63rd/Ashland
S14094 S1726 Shop equipment
S14095 S1665 Cover over pits – Lincoln CH bay 5
S14096 S1956 Catch basin cleaner for #BW-9
S14097 S1682 Remove track Throop Bridge
R14098 R463 DC lighting in office cars & shanty – Loomis
R14099 R466 Lighting in offices – Loomis SSM
S14100 S1661 Remove pole Kedzie/Foster
S14101 S2387 Propane pump – 77th CH
R14102 R461 Retire stairways – Rand,Mad,Adams/Wabash
S14103 canx Floor – 77th CH bay 6 West
S14104 S1871 Fence – 77th CH 77th, Perry sides
R14105 R470 Shop equipment
R14106 R490 Shop equipment
S14107 canx Retire office equipment

R14108 R455 Remove Parnell station – EN
R14109 R538 Signaling 54th Terminal loop and x-over – DPK
G14110 G211 Office equipment
R14111 R486 Relay NB curve – 59th Jct EN
S14112 S1796 Fence – South Shops
S14113 S1678 Shop equipment
S14114 S1736 Replace toilet – Vincennes/80th loop (old burned 12/20/51)
S14115 S1782 Shop equipment
S14116 S2013 Shop equipment
S14117 S1835 Smoke alarm – S Shops boiler room
S14118 S1998 Replace hoist – Grand/Leavitt
S14119 S1876 Power facilities – South Shops
S14120 S2090 Real estate Roosevelt/Monitor
G14121 G210 Office equipment
S14122 canx Shop equipment
S14123 S2179 Shop equipment
S14124 S2102 Paving – 77th CH E end, remove leads to bays 5 & 6
S14125 S1922 Remove switches Randolph/Clinton, Desplaines, Halsted (except W-N,W-S “Y”)
G14126 G219 Office furniture
G14127 G206 Office furniture
S14128 S1842 Alterations to storerooms – 77th CH
S14129 S2166 No Parking – Bus Stop signs
S14130 S1960 Move poles 119th Morgan to Halsted, remove part of passing siding
R14131 R594 Replace phone cable hangers – GPK, DPK, LK
R14132 R577 Replace phone cable hangers – EV
S14133 S1731 Move poles Damen/49th
S14134 S1942 Remove track Damen Roosevelt to Blue Island
S14135 S1817 Remove x-over Damen n of 63rd – SB track only
S14136 S1865 Remove track Damen Fullerton to North
S14137 S1827 Remove track Division Elston Bridge to Clybourn
S14138 S1828 Remove track 59th Central Park to Western
S14139 S1732 Install “Y” trolley at Halsted/Randolph
S14140 S1730 Renew feeders Blue Island Sub
S14141 S2036 Insulation for water & gas lines – North Pk
S14142 S2943 Deck over pits – South Shops
S14143 S1826 Pave Milwaukee/Imlay terminal for buses, remove outer track loop
S14144 S2802 7 hoists – South Shops
S14145 S3094 Reconstruct Blacksmith shop for buses – S Shop
R14146 R499 Shop equipment
S14147 S1851 Shop equipment
S14148 S1778 Renew feeder Madison Desplaines to Halsted
S14149 S1760 Renew feeder Madison Halsted to Union and at Peoria
R14150 R788 Flashing lite signals Kedzie RV
S14151 S2891 Remove line Pershing State to Indiana
S14152 S2257 Remove line South Park s of 63rd
S14153 S2060 Remove track Van Buren Racine to California EB only
R14154 R598 Shop equipment
S14155 S1795 Conv Madison/Austin term for buses
S14156 S1829 Install holder Cottage Grove/72nd – Brookline Loop
S14157 S1830 Install holder Cottage Grove n of 115th
S14158 canx Install holder 63rd Pl w of Narragansett
S14159 S1779 Remove track Damen 47th to 74th
S14160 S1943 Install MOEC 18th/Wabash W-N
S14161 S1944 Install MOEC Kedzie/Van Buren N-W
S14162 canx Install MOEC 63rd/Vernon E-S

S14163 S1862 Install MOEC Cermak/Kedzie W-S
S14164 S1866 Install MOEC Kedzie/Cermak N-E
S14165 canx Install MOEC 63rd/Ashland W-S
S14166 canx Install MOEC Ashland/63rd N-E
S14167 S1758 Install MOEC State/Harrison N-E
S14168 S1945 Install MOEC Cottage Grove/Pershing N-W
S14169 canx Install MOEC Central/63rd Pl S-W
S14170 S1700 Shop equipment
S14171 S1930 Roosevelt/Monitor terminal
S14172 S1977 Shop equipment
S14173 S2388 Shop equipment
S14174 S1834 2 time clerk booths – S Shops
S14175 S1898 Scrap I205,212,214,216,P251,W13,AA49
S14176 canx Renew feeder Cottage Grove/25th
R14177 R465 Replace crossing cable Francisco RV
S14178 S2058 Pulaski/Foster terminal
R14179 R507 Lighting & power 61st Yard SSM
S14180 S1853 Shop equipment
S14181 S2209 Landscape Pulaski/Peterson terminal
S14182 S2330 Remove MILW xings North/Kingsbury
R14183 R481 Remove machinery Kenton Yd Frog Shop DPK
S14184 S2219 Renew track Randolph Dearborn to Franklin WB
S14185 S2034 Shop equipment
S14186 S1783 Shop equipment
S14187 S1790 Sell real estate 93rd/Kenwood
S14188 S1727 Scrap streetcars #3165,3350 (burned 03/20, 03/31/52)
S14189 S1822 Lighting 69th CH wash track bay 4
S14190 S1925 Replace fence Kedzie CH Spaulding, Van Buren sides
R14191 R464 Renew deck Wabash/Van Buren outer loop
R14192 R441 RT car 3107 to #S307
S14193 S1978 Shop equipment
R14194 R531 Wreck “Dreamland” building Paulina/Van Buren
S14195 S1733 Remove track Elston n of Milwaukee, Bloomingdale subway
S14196 S2046 Fairbanks/Ontario terminal
S14197 S1762 Shop equipment
S14198 S1777 Move poles Western/Peterson
S14199 S2879 Move poles Pulaski/Peterson
S14200 S1769 Move pole Archer/Pershing
R14201 R568 Relay EB Kenton to Kildare DPK on new alignment
R14202 R562 Relay WB Kildare to Kenton DPK
R14203 R482 Remove Kenton station – DPK
R14204 R500 Shop equipment
R14205 R467 Crossing cable – Kedzie RV
S14206 canx Renew track Wells Clark to Illinois, also Illinois,Hubbard,Kinzie special work
R14207 R685 Permanent A, B, All stop station signs for N-S,RV,LK,DP,LSQ
R14208 R549 3rd rail new track 2 – Skokie Shops
S14209 S1785 Generator for line truck #176
S14210 S1861 Move pole Division/Cicero
R14211 R590 Redeck George St curves T2,3 NSM
G14212 G213 Office equipment
S14213 S1969 Remove electric switch Chicago/California E-N
S14214 S1929 Remove electric switch Chicago/Kedzie W-S
S14215 S1728 Remove pole Washington Tunnel east end
R14216 R491 Shop equipment
R14217 R762 Line supervision equipment – LSQ

R14218 R763 Line supervision equipment – DPK
R14219 R764 Line supervision equipment – NS
S14220 S1933 Replace earth borer machine DX503
S14221 S1954 Install W-S curve Grand/State
S14222 S1857 Remove track South Chicago 83rd to 87th, 89th to 91st
S14223 S1947 Renew poles Madison Ashland to Ogden
S14224 S2121 Move poles Cortland Ashland to Racine, also Racine/Armitage
S14225 S1764 Remove C&NW xings Elston/Wabansia
R14226 R527 Repl interlocking with hand throw Harrison SSM
S14227 S1907 Renew feeder Roosevelt/Laflin
S14228 S2477 Install trolley Grand/State W-S
S14229 S1885 Move poles Halsted via 74th-Eggleston-75th to Greenwood
S14230 S1940 Remove line Randolph Franklin to Dearborn EB
S14231 S1971 Remove MOEC California/Armitage S-E, California/Milwaukee N-NW
S14232 S2358 Remove electric switch Adams/Clinton W-N
S14233 S2450 Remove electric switch Clinton/Monroe N-E,S-E
S14234 S2245 Remove MOEC Milwaukee/Armitage NW-W, Milwaukee/California SE-S, Manila N-W xover, electric switch
Milwaukee/Desplaines SE-S
S14235 S2007 Remove MOEC Pulaski/Ogden S-NE
R14236 R599 Renew 2 turnouts Howard Yd T14,15
S14237 S2132 Paving Lawndale CH s end, remove special work
R14238 R501 Shop equipment
S14239 S1852 Shop equipment
S14240 S2000 54 fire extinguishers – Lawndale CH
S14241 S1955 Lockers – South Shops
S14242 S1899 Shop equipment
S14243 S1810 Clerical booths – West Shops
G14244 G214 Office equipment
R14245 R506 Yard lighting – 61st Lower Yard – SSM
R14246 R546 Yard lighting – 63rd Yard SSM
S14247 S2485 New feeders, remove trolley – West Shops
S14248 S1957 PA System – North Park office
S14249 S2474 Remove electric switch Ashland/79th S-W
S14250 S2372 Fill in electric switch manholes – 32 locations
S14251 S2804 Remove line – Division CH
S14252 S1761 Ofice equipment
S14253 S1964 Install electric switch State/Grand S-E, Wabash/Grand N-E
S14254 R664/S2329 Ret Auto 87, trucks 702,808, buy auto 135,trucks 610,612,810
S14255 S1883 Remove track 47th w of Shields subway
R14256 R469 Renew cable – EN
S14257 S1869 Move poles Central/Milwaukee terminal
S14258 S1786 Remove line Sedgwick North to Division (no trolley)
S14259 S2597 Chicago/Mayfield terminal
R14260 R468 Renew crossing cable – Kedzie RV
S14261 S1867 Renew feeder Archer/State
S14262 S1918 Lighting Fairbanks/Ontario terminal
S14263 S2106 Move poles Ontario/Clark
S14264 S2225 Remove stub phone poles – 8 locations
R14265 R524 Lighting – Lower 63rd Yard
S14266 S2091 Real estate – Chicago/Mayfield
S14267 S3028 Convert Roosevelt to TB
S14268 S2594 Convert Armitage to TB
R14269 R772 Renew deck crossing #1 – North Water Stub
R14270 R563 Renew deck T2,3 Belden to Fullerton NSM
S14271 S1963 Remove electric switch Washington/LaSalle E-S

S14272 S2340 Remove line & lites – Armitage CH
S14273 S1793 Move pole Western/59th
S14274 S2273 Replace coal w/oil furnace W Shops
R14275 R742 Shop equipment
G14276 G216 Office equipment
S14277 S1787 Renew feeder Wabash/Roosevelt
R14278 R645 Rearrange Wilson for CNS&M, controls to mezz, add CNS&M platform Belmont – NSM
R14279 R545 Renew deck – 57th SSM
R14280 R569 Renew deck – T2 Armitage to Wisconsin NSM
R14281 R528 Renew deck 57th to 58th SSM
R14282 canx Car washing platforn Howard Yd
S14283 S2071 Renew sprinkler system tank – Grand/Leavitt
S14284 S2428 Office & locker room – South Shops
S14285 S2429 Office & locker room – South Shops
R14286 R523 Shop equipment
S14287 S1995 Modifications to 38 snow plows
S14288 S2436 Shop equipment
S14289 S2244 Shop equipment
S14290 S1958 30 A-frames for snow plow attachment
S14291 S2332 Memove MOEC Clark/lawrence S-E
S14292 S1771 Renew feeder Halsted/grace
S14293 S1870 Lighting – S Shops scrap yard
S14294 S2391 Remove electric switch Clinton/Adams N-E
S14295 S1806 Spare propane pump motor
S14296 S1863 Renew feeder Clark Archer to 17th
S14297 S1886 Renew feeder Chicago Peoria to Halsted
S14298 S1794 Move pole Milwaukee/Kimball
S14299 R623/S2226 Office furniture
R14300 R663 Mudguards RT cars 6001-6200
S14301 R2573 Road equipment
S14302 R2319 Spreader trucks #R14-R15
S14303 S1884 Remove track Grand/Austin
S14304 S2155 Office equipment
R14305 R485 Remove s exit stairs SB platform Roosevelt SSM
S14306 S2348 Storerooms – Lawndale CH
S14307 S1948 Renew feeder Halsted Grand to Superior
R14308 R603 Extend platforms 35th – N-S
S14309 S1784 Shop equipment
S14310 S2042 Shop equipment
S14311 S1788 Renew feeder Archer Clark to LaSalle
S14312 S1917 Lighting Pulaski/Foster terminal
S14313 S1991 Remove line LaSalle Randolph to Monroe
S14314 S2847 Portable radios
S14315 S1900 Scr BA4,103,106,110
S14316 S1979 Shop equipment
R14317 R618 Alterations – 61st Shop SSM
R14318 R866 Car washer – Howard Yard
S14319 S1901 2000 used “J” fare boxes
R14320 R753 Cable Clark Jct – NSM
R14321 R931 Cable 59th Jct – SSM
R14322 R642 Replace air line – 59th Jct SSM
R14323 R591 Renew footwalk SSM
S14324 S1880 Renew track Clark Lake to Randolph
S14325 S2040 Renew track 119th Morgan to Halsted, remove track 119th Ashland to Morgan
R14326 R564 Shop equipment

R14327 R519 Shop equipment
S14328 S1864 Renew feeder 18th Clark to Federal
R14329 R632 Modernize shop machinery – Skokie Shop
R14330 R644 Lighting platform extensions – North/South
S14331 S1908 Renew feeder State 18th to Archer
S14332 S1746 Retire track Blue Island/26th, Pulaski Ogden to 26th
S14333 S1741 Retire track Chicago Austin to Kedzie, California to Halsted, Larrabee to Lake Shore
S14334 S1740 Retire track Milwaukee (except Armitage to Western)
S14335 S1858 Remove track Division w of Kolmar subway
S14336 S1986 Spreaders on salt buses BA36-BA73
S14337 S1753 Retire track 79th Ashland to Western
S14338 S1742 Retire track Pershing Indiana to State
S14339 S1744 Retire track Van Buren Clark to Halsted
S14340 S1745 Retire track Randolph Franklin to Dearborn
S14341 S1747 Retire track Madison Franklin to Dearborn
S14342 S1748 Retire track Desplaines Madison to Van Buren
S14343 S1750 Retire track Wells Illinois to Kinzie SB, Clark to Lincoln NB
S14344 S1743 Retire track LaSalle Randolph to Monroe
S14345 S1751 Retire track 61st Cottage Grove to State
S14346 S1752 Retire track Grand State to Clark
S14347 S1749 Retire track 47th Halsted to State, Kedzie to Western, Cottage Grove stub
S14348 S2814 Move poles Grand/Fullerton
S14349 S2481 Move poles Grand Fullerton to Lamon
R14350 R634 Replace 3rd rail NSM
R14351 R630 Replace 3rd rail SSM
S13452 S2586 Conv boiler coal to oil Lawndale CH
S14353 S1872 Remove special California/Division
R14354 R744 Alter Lombard Sub for rotary converter
R14355 R529 Restore Tk W4 – Logan Sq Terminal
R14356 S2576,R757 Electrical work – Lombard Sub
S14357 canx Move pole 63rd/Racine
R14358 R861 Replace 3rd rail West Side
S14359 canx Move pole 69th/racine
R14360 R597 Alterations to snow melters Howard Yard
S14361 S2770 Insulate water & gas lines – Beverly Gar
R14362 R451 Retire abandoned stations on Douglas Pk
S14363 S2456 Buses #5500-5599
S14364 S1946 Remove track 74th/Ashland, Halsted, 75th/Vincennes, State, South Park, Cotage Grove, Stony Island,
Constance,Coles
S14365 S1756 Insurance recovery for garage 115th/Michigan
R14366 R520 Jack supports 4000 series LSQ shop
S14367 S1980 Shop equipment
S14368 S2793 Bus tools Kedzie CH
S14369 S2820 Bus tools 69th CH
R14370 R656 Install R-10 Registers in State Subway stations
R14371 R665 Install R-10 registers – Merchandise Mart
R14372 S1934 Retire auto #519A, add auto #557A
S14373 S2417 Heat & vent Blue Island bays 3-7
R14374 R1072 New furnace Skokie Shops
S14375 S1919 Scrap 200 streetcars
S14376 S1881 Lighting Roosevelt/Monitor terminal
S14377 S2009 Remove special work S Chicago/Keefe, Cottage Grove, track Cottage Grove/75th
S14378 S2088 Remove track Cortland Ashland to Racine, Racine Cortland to Armitage
S14379 S2144 Mobile radiotelephone units
S14380 S2124 Install selectric TB switches 51st/Kedzie W-N, S-W

S14381 S2014 Add autos #110-113
S14382 S2193 Remove track Armitage Racine to Clark except Halsted “Y”
S14383 S1951 Renew skylight Lawndale CH
S14384 S1935 Shop equipment
S14385 canx Shop equipment
R14386 R493 Office equipment
R14387 R611 Scrap 30 RT coaches
S14388 S2908 Renew feeder 47th/Federal
S14389 S1875 Office equipment
S14390 S1887 Renew feeder Sedgwick/North
S14391 S1888 Renew feeder North Sedgwick to North Park
S14392 S2057 Renew track Clark/16th
R14393 R724 Renew flange angles – SSM
S14394 S1902 Paving – South Shops scrap yard
S14395 S1924 Paving – South Shops
S14396 S1910 Renew feeder Western Rooosevelt to Fillmore
S14397 S1911 Renew feeder Roosevelt Western to Ogden
S14398 S2092 Real estate 16th/47th Ct
S14399 S2093 Real estate Racine/87th
S14400 S1972 35 snow plows
R14401 R502 1,000,178 RT fare tokens
R14402 R631 Remove Hannah station & platforms – GPK
R14403 R748 Remove Kenton Yard – DPK
S14404 canx Radiotelephone units
S14405 S2047 Lighting and power – West Shops
S14406 S2128 Move poles Grand/North/Kostner
S14407 S2857 Remove line Desplaines Washington to Milwaukee
S14408 S1992 Remove line 75th/Exchange
S14409 S2065 Renew track Stony Island 63rd to 64th SB
S14410 S1889 Move poles S Chicago/Keefe
S14411 S1878 Move poles S Chicago/Cottage Grove
S14412 S2123 Lighting – North Ave propane area
S14413 S2532 Remove line 61st State to Cottage Grove
S14414 S1854 Scrap streetcar #106 (burned 07/19/52)
R14415 R509 Scrap #S8, convert S306 to shed
S14416 canx Sell 40 Pullman streetcars
R14417 R544 Remove Schiller station bldg NSM
R14418 R542 Remove exit stairs Adams/Wabash Inner n of Adams
S14419 S2276 Racine/87th terminal
S14420 S2282 Remove line Clinton ilwaukee to Harrison
S14421 S2574 Prepare for service #5500-5599
S14422 S1912 Renew feeder Clark/randolph
R14423 R535 Rem mezz – old Randolph/Wells sta
S14424 S1890 Renew feeder Wells/Madison
R14425 R755 Remove electrical equipment Kenton Yd DPK
S14426 S3010 Remove line 38th Washtenaw to Kedzie
S14427 S2316 Remove line 63rd Stony Island to Harper WB
S14428 S2533 Remove line 79th Lakefront to Western
S14429 S1913 Renew feeder Roosevelt/Hermitage
S14430 R1927 Scrap E24,204,234
S14431 S1985 Office equipment
R14432 R536 Exit stile E end Cicero DPK
S14433 S2259 Remove line Milwaukee Imlay Loop to Lake
S14434 S2530 Remove line 26th Kenton to Western
S14435 S2022 Generators for Walter Snowplows

S14436 S2055 Bus stop signs – GPK, Westchester bus routes
S14437 S2056 Renew rail 63rd/Indiana
S14438 S2513 Buses #5600-5699, add #5700-5799
S14439 S2954 Prepare for service #5600-5999
S14440 S2162 Install TB line Kedzie Gar to Roosevelt
S14441 S2836 Install TB line Kedzie Gar bays 2-3
S14442 S2168 Move poles Armitage Racine to Clark
S14443 S1915 Scr I204,213,202,211,217,W33,63,94
S14444 canx Air compressor Lawndale CH
S14445 S1981 Shop equipment
S14446 S2483 Move poles Grand Lockwood to North
R14447 R548 Relay 50th Av to 52nd Av DPK
S14448 S2326,R658 Conv #4381 to RT car by St Louis Car
S14449 S2327,R659 Conv #4394 to RT car by Pullman-Standard
R14450 canx 100 RT motor cars
S14451 S2114 Shop equipment
S14452 S2094 Real estate Montrose/Narragansett
G14453 G230 Office equipment
S14454 canx Scrap bus #1803 – see S14469
S14455 S1905 Renew feeder Indiana 50th to 51st
S14456 S2001 6 tail gate sand spreaders
R14457 R514 Remove HPK Oakley to Lawndale
S14458 S1984 Remove special work State/87th, x-over State n of 87th
S14459 S2492 Move poles State Kinzie to River
S14460 S2595 Convert Lawndale CH to AC power
S14461 S1938 Renew feeder Cortland Ashland to Elston
R14462 canx Convert 100 PCC’s to RT cars
S14463 S1996 Remove rail Van Buren viaduct W of river
S14464 S1891 Install neg feeder Division W of Kolmar
S14465 S1892 Install neg feeder 47th Shields to Normal
S14466 S2366 Light & power West Shops Boiler Room
R14467 R605 Shop equipment
S14468 S2063 Shop equipment
S14469 S1983 Scrap bus 1803 (burned 10/11/52)
S14470 S2087 Renew special work State/21st
S14471 S2164 Sewer line – Lawndale CH south yard
S14472 S2476 Remove trolley Milwaukee/Grand/Halsted
S14473 S2095 Additional real estate Racine/87th
S14474 S2069 Lighting open bays 4,9 North Ave
R14475 R515 Remove electrical equip HPK Oakley to Lawndale
S14476 canx Remove special work Clark/Polk
S14477 S2051 Shop equipment
R14478 R503 RT car #2717 to #S308
S14479 S2019 Renew feeder North/Damen
S14480 S2205 Shop equipment
S14481 S2137 Shop equipment
S14482 S2096 Scrap #2107,2114
S14483 S2044 Scrap shop machinery
S14484 R616 Track pits 61st Shop SSM
S14485 S2039 Remove Armitage CH open yard
R14486 R541 Repl interlocking with hand throw St Louis GPK, remove W diamonds
S14487 S1923 City paving costs – Roosevelt Viaduct
S14488 S2037 Lighting Chicago/Mayfield terminal
S14489 S2217 Radio receiver for auto
R14490 R680 Equipment for substations

B14491 B3 Steel ad frames for buses
S14492 S2307 Scrap 200 streetcars
S14493 S2195 Shop equipment
R14494 R661 Snow blower for #S308
S14495 S2032 Lighting 16th/47th Ct terminal
S14496 S1939 Remove cable from duct Chicago LaSalle to Clark
S14497 S1993 Adamdon conduit Loomis Van Buren to xway
R14498 R557 Checkers booths Chicago/State,Chicago/Milw Subway
S14499 S2052 Office equipment
B14500 B1 Purchase Chicago Motor Coach Co
R14501 R494 Capitalize liability from pre-10/1/47 vacation accrual
B14502 S2345 Radios for Boulevard Div autos
R14503 R551 Roadway machinery
R14504 R560 Yard track E switch track to Unit 2 Skokie Sh
R14505 R558 4 checkers booths – Kedzie GP,Western DP
R14506 R565 Shop equipment
S14507 S2072 Shop equipment
R14508 R585 Relay curve NS off T-18 – Loop
R14509 R640 Relay NB curve 40th/Wabash – SSM
R14510 R646 Relay SB curve 63/Calumet – SSM
R14511 R583 Relay Lake/Wabash curve Inner Loop
S14512 canx Propane tank – Kedzie CH
R14513 canx Put in service 100 RT cars
S14514 S1949 Abandon conduit Sedgwick Lincoln to North
R14515 R516 Comp from city – prop taken for Superhiway
S14516 S1929 City cost to pave over tracks 1952

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