Reader Showcase, 9-9-2018

September 9, 2018September 18, 2018David Sadowski 7 Comments

This photo purports to show the actual last run on Milwaukee’s ill-fated Speedrail interurban on June 30, 1951. However, according to Larry Sakar, author of Speedrail: Milwaukee’s Last Rapid Transit?, “The last run to Waukesha which left Milwaukee at a little after 8:00 pm and returned to Milwaukee at 10:08 pm, 2 minutes ahead of schedule, was handled by duplex 37-38. The final round trip to Hales Corners was handled by curved side car 63, not 66. 66 did run on the last day, but it was by no means the final run.” Chances are this photo was at least taken on the last day. The line could not survive the repercussions of a terrible head-on collision in 1950, and Milwaukee area officials wanted to use the interurban’s right-of-way, which it did not own, for a new highway. Don’s Rail Photos: “66 was built by Cincinnati Car in August 1929, #3025, as Dayton & Troy Ry 203. It was returned to Cincinnati Car in 1932, and in 1938 it was sold to Lehigh Valley Transit as 1102. In 1949 it was sold to Speedrail, but was not rehabilitated until March 1951. But it only ran for 3 months before the line was abandoned and then scrapped in 1952.” (Photo by George Harris)

This post features many great contributions from our readers that we hope you will enjoy. Our sincere thanks go out to Larry Sakar, Miles Beitler, Jack Bejna, Jeffrey Haertlein, Kathryn Boyer, and Mitch Markovitz.

-David Sadowski

PS- Happy 88th birthday to two of my uncles, Raymond and Robert Wakefield, fraternal twins born September 10, 1930. They are my late mother’s younger brothers.

I hope they each have a wonderful day.

According to my mother’s memoirs, they were both first day riders on the new Chicago subway, which opened on October 17, 1943, nearly 75 years ago. My new book Building Chicago’s Subways, which will be released on October 1st, tells the story of how this came to be.

Larry Sakar writes:

Hi Dave,

Recently you asked if car 66 was the used for the last run to Hales Corners and back on MRT’s (Speedrail) last day, 6-30-51. As I said, the 66 did make at least one round trip to Hales Corners that day. The first photo I am attaching shows it westbound at 85th St. The water tower in the background is at N. 84th St. The 84th St. stop on the Rapid Transit Line was adjacent to it. The tower is still there today. No trace of the station or the right of way exists. Car 66 would be adjacent to the present day Honey Creek business park which would be at right.

As I also mentioned car 63 made the last round trip to Hales Corners and back shortly before midnight. Here we see it earlier in the evening of 6-30-51. In the second photo the motorman has just called for orders at the call in booth you see at right It was adjacent to the West Jct. stop just beyond the platform on the single track .

In the last photo car 63 has turned on Hillcrest loop and is laying over before returning to Milwaukee. Note some of photographer Robert Townley’s equipment sitting on the platform. The poor motorman looks rather forlorn. As of tomorrow 7-1-51 he will be unemployed.

The Hales Corners station was located on the southeast corner of Highway 100 (S.108th St.) and W. Janesville Rd. (Hwy. 24). The northbound curb lane of Highway 100 now occupies the former r.o.w. Except for the power lines, no traces of the line can be found today. The Hales Corners loop which was located about a half mile or so southwest of the station is now the site of a Menards store. For anyone unfamiliar with Menards, it’s a home improvement chain like Home Depot.

These photos and others including the last round trip to Waukesha were taken by Robert Townley. His capture of Speedrail’s last day were somewhat of an unplanned event. Remember this was during the height of the Korean War and guys were being drafted or were enlisting. Bob had enlisted in the Navy in order to avoid being drafted into the Army. His enlistment point was somewhere south of Chicago but definitely not Great Lakes Naval Training Station. I have forgotten where he said it was located.

Anyway, Bob was in Council Bluffs, Iowa taking pictures of whatever traction system they had in that city. He happened to overhear a couple of railfans mention that the next day 6-30-51 was Speedrail’s last. He had planned to visit Milwaukee later on, but now that Speedrail was about to shut down it became a priority. The next day he boarded a bus for Peoria, Illinois where he caught the Rock Island’s Peoria Rocket for Chicago. Upon arriving in Chicago in the afternoon he made his way to the Adams & Wabash “L” station where he took the next North Shore train to Milwaukee. He arrived in the late afternoon and headed from the NSL station at 6th & Michigan to the Public Service Building. He rode the trip to Hales Corners you see photographed. I’m sure he took either a Hales Corners local or a West Jct. train and got off at 84th St. which is how he was able to capture car 66 bound for Hales Corners.

One other interesting coincidence. Bob, who is from Columbia, CA. (that’s in Gold Rush country east of Sacramento) met up with another Milwaukee traction fan/photographer – Don Ross! It was while both men were serving in Korea. Small world!

I mentioned the Hales Corners station site at Highway 100 & Janesville Rd. I took the attached photo around 1995 but it really doesn’t look much different today. You are looking north along Highway 100. The curb lane is where the TM r.o.w. would have been.

The station stood right in front of the traffic light you see center right. Janesville Rd. was only a two lane highway in the days of TM and Speedrail. Where you see the car on the right edge of the photo there was only grass. Where you see the two cars across from it was the extent of Janesville Rd. back then. None of the buildings behind those two cars were there then either. The grassy median you see dividing the north and south lanes of Highway 100 was also not there back then. The highway consisted of the lane where you see the dark colored car passing the second light pole on the left, and the lanes on the other side of that median.

Today there is no transit service to this area. At one time MCTS Rt 28-Highway 100 did go all the way to Hales Corners. Subsequent budget cuts saw it cut back to the MCTS Hales Corners Park ‘n’ Ride lot which ironically is not in Hales Corners!

For anyone confused, highway 100 goes by three different names, depending what part of it you’re traveling on. It is S. 108th St. to the point that south streets end and north streets begin. Then, it’s technically N. 108th St. It is Highway 100 from Franklin which is south of Hales Corners to Wauwatosa and Brown Deer. At that point, Highway 100 becomes an east-west and it is also known as Brown Deer Rd. On the far south side, it also turns to running east-west and it is Ryan Rd., the same Ryan Rd. crossed by the North Shore Line (but way, way east in the suburb of Oak Creek). The idea was to make it a sort of belt line highway around Milwaukee. Want more confusion? Through parts of Wauwatosa, it is also known as Lovers Lane Rd.

Larry

PS- Here are three additional pictures of the TM Watertown line abandoned r.o.w. from the point where street running in Oconomowoc ended and the p.r.o.w. heading for Watertown began. The one looking east to where eastbound trains entered the street on Oconomowoc’s west side was taken to try and match the picture of the same spot on p.261 of the TM book. I took these in the summer of 1976.

Abandoned TM r.o.w. heading toward Watertown from Oconomowoc in 1976.

Abandoned TM r.o.w. heading west from end of street running in Oconomowoc in 1976.

TM r.o.w. entering street on west side of Oconomoc, looking east in 1976.

Miles Beitler writes:

Here are a couple of Chicago and North Western photos that I took in the late 1970s or early 1980s at the old Dee Road station in Park Ridge. The old station was torn down and moved one block west some time in the 1990s. (Editor’s note: Bill Wulfert says the new station was dedicated in 2006- see his Comment below.)

I located a few more photos but unfortunately only one has a locomotive in view. The rest only show tracks or stations. I’ll keep looking — maybe I can find more.

The two Metra photos show the Amtrak/Milwaukee District tracks approaching Union Station. The photo of the Lake Street L was taken near Lake and Des Plaines on the near west side. All of these photos were taken circa March 2001.

The shots of the downtown Des Plaines C&NW station are late 1970s (pre-Metra) and although no trains are shown, the photos show the tracks running through the station as well as two buses (one Nortran and the second RTA) across the street. Both bus operators later were merged into the PACE suburban bus system.

Jack Bejna writes:

In my continuing search for CA&E photos and information I came across this interesting item from the John Stephenson Company describing quite a ride with brand new CA&E Car 32.

Here is another batch of Michigan photos. I believe these photos were taken circa 1921 as they were in the notebooks containing DUR photographs used for an audit for an upcoming fare increase request.

These photos don’t include the location where they were taken, and again, since I’m not familiar with Michigan towns and cities, I don’t have any idea where the pictures were taken, with some exceptions. It is interesting that many non-DUR photos were in the notebooks; perhaps the photographer was a railfan!

As far as I know the DUR triple car 5000 was unique, and it was used to accommodate large numbers of Ford employees at shift change.

The Benton Harbor & St Joseph photos are not the best but I’ve included several shots taken in winter. As you can see, the BH&StJ served the Graham & Morton Steamship Lines, but the steamship business was not enough to maintain the line and it quit in the mid-thirties.

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

Detroit United Railway

Benton Harbor & St Joseph Railway

Jeffrey Haertlein writes:

The Wisconsin Dells MINIRAMA was an O scale layout in operation as a tourist attraction from 1960 thru 1969. It was a great train layout, one in which I marveled at for decades, even after it closed.

Long story short, after many years I was able to purchase quite a bit of it starting in 2005. It was sold to a guy in Milwaukee (130 mi.), and now a good amount of it is only 15 miles away from where it started.

I’ll attach a few pictures of the attraction. Sure wish I could find more of it.

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Kathryn Boyer writes:

I am an art historian, and I am trying to find someone who knows enough about trains of the 1930s to help with some specific information related to the Edward Hopper painting Compartment C, Car 193, painted in 1938. (See above.)

After looking at some websites and a YouTube clip with John Smatlak, it seems as though the painting rather accurately presents many of the features of a McKeever Pullman Sleeper. The lamp in the corner does not seem to correspond to any of the images I’ve seen, but the other elements are fairly similar.

I was wondering if someone is able to pinpoint more specifically
– the train(s)/cars that this image most closely represents
– when it was first made
– how long it was out in circulation
-and what do you notice in the painting that deviates from actuality?
That is, basic information about the train/car.

But I’m also wondering if you know if there is a place to seek out information about facts such as
– how much would a ticket on this train/in this car cost (including the sleeping berth)?

Also, are you aware of any information put together or research done on the profiles of passengers of this era, for example, the number of men and women and their socio-economic status.

I appreciate any leads or directions as well as photos and documents that you can provide.

I am no expert on Pullman sleepers, but let’s hope some of our readers can help you out, thanks.

I posted this picture to Facebook, and this led to some discussion with Mitch Markovitz. He is an accomplished artist who has been researching both Edward Hopper and the Pullman Company for the last 60 years. Here is what Mitch has to say:

As a railroad historian, and with Edward Hopper’s work having a great influence on my own i can say this. Hopper would never fly anywhere. His wife, Josephine, complained that on trips he spent much time in railroad yards painting engines. He has several great works that include Pullman equipment including “Pennsylvania Morning.” In most of his works his model was his wife. This is just your standard Pullman section sleeper of the time. Once during one of his only TV interviews he was on a Sunday morning program on Boston Public Television being interviewed by Brian O’Dougherity. Brian asked Hopper, “We noticed you came up to Boston by train today (instead of flying.) Isn’t that a bit old fashioned?” Hopper looked down for a moment, thought, and then replied, “No. It isn’t. I just didn’t feel like dying this morning.”

The art historian wants to know what the factual basis is for the painting, whether the artist made any changes… how much a train ticket would have cost, and the socio-economic status of train travelers in the 1930s.

The factual basis would be one of Hopper’s many trips by rail in a standard sleeping car. This accommodation, the section, was the least expensive one available. Used by people of middle income. This type of car would have had one or two “drawing rooms” at one end. More expensive priced accommodations for people that expected more privacy. A traveler in a section sleeper would have to use a general washroom at each end of the car for both shaving and brushing of teeth in the morning, and for the other prerequisites. Traveling salesmen used sections a lot. A traveler would pay the first class railroad fare, and then the appropriate Pullman accommodation fare in a separate ticket between the two stations. If one were to travel on a premiere train and desired a shower and the services of a barber they were available in the club car, front of the train. Please keep asking questions, I’m happy to answer.

Is this something that the average person could afford back then?

In general yes. But during the depression it would depend on the definition of “average.” In this era we saw the rise of the “All coach train.” The section sleeper was the bottom of services. If one were to travel on say the “Twentieth Century Limited,” with a premium schedule, a premium dining car, and a barber shop with a shower one would pay the rail fare, the Pullman accommodation fare, and then, on top an “extra fare,” which in today’s dollars would be an additional $100 or so. A successful artist who lived in a 4th floor walk-up apartment, and had a small cottage on Martha’s Vineyard could afford this accommodation. (Hopper was cheap by the way.)

“Pennsylvania Hotel,” 20″x30″ Pastel on sand paper, 1989. One of my works that people compare to those of Hopper.

The car depicted would be of heavyweight construction before streamliners. Into the late 1930s all private rooms began to rise in popularity aboard streamlined (modern) trains. Pictured below is a standard Pullman sleeper. There were the Pullman Manufacturing Company, who built many types of railroad cars, and “The PULLMAN Company,” who owned, operated, and maintained sleeping, parlor, lounge, and restaurant cars. Both companies were part of Pullman Inc.

Thanks… did Hopper, in this painting, change anything in the interior of the sleeping car for artistic license?

Everything seen is correct. Including the interior color. The only thing I could mention is the lamp. The shade would have had a golden yellow-orange color to it on a brass or bronze colored fixture.

From www.edwardhopper.net:

Hopper also took an interest in cars and trains. It is a pity he didn’t live long into the jet age, though we sense his shadow in many contemporary works. The artist was drawn to the introspective mood that travelling seems to put us into. He captured the atmosphere in half-empty carriages making their way across a landscape: the silence that reigns inside while the wheels beat in rhythm against the rails outside, the dreaminess fostered by the noise and the view from the windows – a dreaminess in which we seem to stand outside our normal selves and have access to thoughts and memories that may not emerge in more settled circumstances. The woman in Hopper’s Compartment C Car 1938 seems in such a frame of mind, reading her book and shifting her gaze between the carriage and the view.

Hopper’s people give the impression of being people attempting to escape something. They are involved in themselves and cannot seem to get their lives straight. They escape the society of others, and would like to escape themselves. They are not really at home anywhere, neither in a room nor outside, neither at work nor at play, neither alone nor with others. That is why they are on the move. Their home is a train station, a highway restaurant, a gas station, a hotel or motel, a train compartment, a snack bar, a theater foyer, a movie house.

They are going somewhere without being able to arrive. They have personality traits that seem mutually exclusive. They are mobile and restless, yet statically tied to some location from which they will probably never escape.

Our thanks to everyone else who contributed to this post. Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks!

-David Sadowski
Recent Finds

Here are a few pictures we have recently acquired.

Chicago Aurora & Elgin 419 is eastbound in June 1952, just east of First Avenue in Maywood.

In this original red border Kodachrome slide, we see a two-car train of CTA wooden “L” cars, possibly on a fantrip, on the ground-level section of the Garfield Park “L” (possibly Central or Austin?). The date is April 14, 1957. In the foreground, we see a new temporary track alignment under construction.

CTA PCC 4168, a Pullman, heads west on diversion trackage along Chicago Avenue. This is a southbound Halsted car, probably circa 1952. This routing was used when the Halsted Street bridge over the Chicago River was out of service. The building in the background is the historic Montgomery Wards headquarters, a local landmark, at 618 W. Chicago Avenue.

On January 1, 1947, Chicago Surface Lines 789 heads south on Damen Avenue at the intersection of Lincoln and Irving Park Road. I lived about a block away from here in the 1980s and this neighborhood is known as North Center.

This photo, taken at the CTA’s South Shops in the second half of 1956, shows various prewar PCCs (including 4006) that were out of service following the bustitution of Route 49 – Western. Trolley poles have already been removed, and it appears that seat frames are stacked nearby. From an original medium format transparency.

CTA 6573 is shown in Pekin, Illinois, on its way from the St. Louis Car Company to Chicago in the mid-1950s. Once on CTA property, it will be coupled with 6574 as a permanently married pair.

Queensboro Bridge trolleys 601 and 611 at Queens Plaza on April 19, 1949. This bridge line was abandoned in 1957 and was the last trolley operation in the state of New York. These cars were called “Electromobiles,” and were built by Osgood Bradley in the late 1920s.

CTA PCC 4396, a product of the St. Louis Car Company, is southbound on Clark Street, having just crossed the Chicago River, on July 9, 1957. This is from an original 35mm Kodachrome slide, processed by Technicolor.

The Chicago Aurora & Elgin’s Wheaton Yards on April 13, 1957. From an original red border Kodachrome.

Various North Shore Line cars are seen in Waukegan in June 1961, including 159. (F. R. Burke Photo)

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On February 6, 1955 the Santa Fe Railway ran a railfan train from Los Angeles to Barstow and back for the Railway Club of Southern California. This was Santa Fe’s last run powered by a steam locomotive over this route. The engine was a 4-8-4, #3759. We have used the original, rare 1955 mono version of this recording, and not the later 1958 reissue that had a bunch of echo added to create a fake stereo effect.

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Pre-Order Our New Book Building Chicago’s Subways

There are three subway anniversaries this year 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

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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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A Long Time Gone

June 23, 2018September 24, 2025David Sadowski 18 Comments

Chicago postwar PCC 7216 is shown heading south on Clark at Harrison on March 11, 1958. I was attracted to this shot since the woman and child who are about to board could just as well be me and my mother at that time. (Photo by A. Goddard)

June 21st marks 60 years since the last Chicago streetcar ran. If you consider that 80 years is, perhaps, about an average lifespan, that means 3/4ths of such a time has now passed since that historic event.

The number of people still living who rode Chicago streetcars is dwindling, and is certainly only a small fraction of the current population. At age 63, I must be among the youngest people who can say they rode a Chicago streetcar on the streets of Chicago, much less remember it.

But the number of people who have taken a ride on a Chicago streetcar does increase, since there are a number of them that are operable at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union. The Seashore Trolley Museum (Kennebunkport, ME) has another car (225) that is operated infrequently.

The experience of riding at a railway museum is, of necessity, somewhat different than what people experienced 60+ years ago on the streets of Chicago. However, as a “streetcar renaissance” is underway across the country in various cities, the number of track miles in city streets has been increasing. In those places, it is possible to experience something more like what Chicago once had.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin will soon join that list, just 90 miles north of Chicago. After a similar 60-year gap in streetcar service, their first new line, aka “The Hop,” is expected to begin service mid-November. (You can read our recent update here. Since our article appeared, the new cars have begun testing out on the streets.)

Interestingly, a heritage trolley recently began service in Rockford, Illinois, which is also about 90 miles from Chicago.

For the past 18 years, Kenosha, Wisconsin (about 65 miles from Chicago) has operated a tourist trolley, which you can even reach using Metra‘s Union Pacific North Line.

Perhaps the streetcar line that would offer a ride closest to what Chicagoans could once experience, however, is the SEPTA #15 Girard Avenue line in Philadelphia, which is operated with modernized PCC cars.

I can also recommend the Muni F-Market and Wharves line in San Francisco, which operates using a variety of historic equipment.

Anyway you look at it, this anniversary is a good excuse to feature some classic Chicago traction photos, which we hope you will enjoy.

But wait– there’s more!

June 22, 1958 is another important date in Chicago transit history. 60 years ago, a new CTA rapid transit line opened in the median of the Congress (now Eisenhower) expressway. This line, also known as the “West Side Subway,” replaced the Garfield Park “L” and was the culmination of plans made 20 years before.

Another important anniversary is approaching on October 17th– the 75th anniversary of the opening of Chicago’s first subway. In December, it will be 80 years since subway construction began.

For these reasons, and more, we have written a new book called Building Chicago’s Subways, to be released by Arcadia Publishing this October 1st. Information about how to pre-order this book appears further down in this post.

The idea for Building Chicago’s Subways first came to me a few years ago, when I realized these important anniversaries were approaching. A few months after the publication of Chicago Trolleys last fall, I pitched the idea to Arcadia, and that is when the real work began.

Much additional research had to be done. I read everything I could find on the subject. Photos came from my own collections and those of other collectors, who have graciously permitted their use in this project.

Here is a short description of the book:

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!

The story goes back much further than that… before there were rapid transit tunnels, there were tunnels under the Chicago River, used by cable cars and streetcars. In the early 1900s, private enterprise built an extensive system of freight tunnels under the downtown area. And there was about 40 years of wrangling over what kind of subway to build, where to build it, and who should pay for it.

I found it a fascinating tale, and am gratified that I have been able to complete this new book in time for the anniversary, and within the living memory of Chicagoans who were here to witness these events 75 long years ago. The State Street, Dearborn-Milwaukee and West Side Subways have changed life for everyday Chicagoans forever.

-David Sadowski

PS- The Chicago Transit Authority posted this excellent video showing the last run of car 7213 in the early morning hours of June 21, 1958 (the June 22 date in the video is not correct):

Jeffrey L. Wien and I, along with the late Bradley Criss, collaborated on the book Chicago Streetcar Pictorial: The PCC Car Era, 1936-1958, published in 2015 as Bulletin 146 of the Central Electric Railfans’ Association.

For this anniversary, I asked Mr. Wien, who rode on the last Chicago streetcar, to reminisce for our readers:

Today, June 21, 2018, marks the 60th anniversary of my ride on the Last Chicago Streetcar with my high school friend Greer Nielsen. Thinking back 60 years I recall that it was a very melancholy event, one that remained in my mind for the rest of my life.

Thinking back 60 years can be a challenging task, but I do remember that it was a warm and muggy night on that last ride. CTA PCC 7213 was the last car on the shortened route 22 Wentworth line. The last run south from Clark and Kinzie began around 4am. There were probably at least 100 people crammed into that car so that they could say that they rode the Last Chicago Streetcar. As the car headed south through the Loop headed to 81st and Halsted, the group was quite loud and raucous, but as we went farther and farther south, the crowd quieted down, perhaps because we wanted to hear the sound of the streetcar in the streets of Chicago for the very last time.

When we arrived at 81st and Halsted, everyone got off the car for photos, private and official, and then reboarded the car for the last time for the short trip to Vincennes and 78th where the car pulled off of the street. It was about 6:15am by that point in time, and the Sun was just rising.

As the 7213 pulled away from Vincennes Avenue heading into the Rising Sun, we knew that we had witnessed an historic event in the history of Chicago. 99 years of traction history in Chicago ended at that moment. For me, it was a very sad moment for it was like losing a very good friend.

Jeff Wien

Chicago Area Recent Finds

Chicago’s PCCs did not operate in multiple units, but you would be forgiven for thinking so from this photo. Car 4172 and a very close follower are heading south at Clark and Division circa 1950. Note there are not yet any advertising brackets on the sides of the PCCs. At right, there is an entrance to a CTA subway station, which is today part of the Red Line.

CTA PCC 4366, a Pullman, heads north on diversion trackage on Halsted at Congress in 1950. This was necessitated by construction of the bridge that would go over the Congress expressway (now the Eisenhower, I290). Bridges that crossed the highway were the first things built, since traffic could be routed around them. Once a bridge was finished, the area around it could be dug out.

CTA PCC 7148, running northbound on Route 36 – Broadway, turns from Broadway onto westbound Devon in 1955, with the Howard line “L” in the background. The date written on this slide mount is 8-14-56, but the turning car has a 1955 Illinois license plate on it, so perhaps the correct date is 8-14-55. (William Shapotkin Collection)

CTA Pullman-built PCC 4124 is eastbound on Route 20 – Madison at Cicero Avenue in 1953. The PCC is signed for Kedzie, so it is most likely a tripper, heading back to the barn. Streetcar service on the main portion of Madison ended on December 13, 1953.

The same building as in the previous picture.

Rust never sleeps, as the saying goes, and that is evident in this picture of a Chicago Surface Lines (now CTA, but still sporting a CSL logo) electric loco as it looked in the 1950s. Behind it is one of the CSL trailers that were used during the 1920s, pulled along behind other streetcars. Once ridership dropped during the Great Depression, these were used for storage at various CSL yards.

In August 1960, a four-car train of CTA 4000-series cars heads west on the ground-level portion of the Lake Street “L”. Since it appears there are passengers waiting for a Chicago & North Western commuter train on the adjacent embankment, I would say it’s possible the location is near Marion Street in suburban Oak Park. The outer 2.5 miles of the Lake route were relocated onto the embankment in October 1962.

CTA 4295 heads up a train in Oak Park on the ground-level portion of the Lake Street “L” on August 7, 1954. (Photo by Mark D. Meyer)

Two CTA 4000s go up the ramp on Lake Street, just west of Laramie, to rejoin the steel “L” structure east of here on November 30, 1952. (Robert Selle Photo)

In September 1959, we see a two-car train of CTA 4000s, preparing to head east. I believe the location is Marion Street in Oak Park and not Marengo Avenue in Forest Park as written on the slide mount. Marengo is a short distance west of Harlem, and although Lake Street trains did go there, the buildings in this picture match Marion. We have another picture in this post showing what the area west of Harlem actually looked like. (William Shapotkin Collection)

Photographer Bob Selle notes: Two-car “L” train (4420 at right) on Lake Street line just west of Harlem Avenue.” In the distance, you can see the actual terminal. Not that many people boarded there, compared to the Marion Street station just east of Harlem Avenue. This picture was taken on May 1, 1955.

A close-up of the previous picture, showing some wavy track and the actual station and bumper post (or is it turned-up rail?) at the west end of the Lake Street “L” prior to 1962. Riders could board trains at the station, which was located about two blocks west of Harlem Avenue.

CTA one-man car 3125, heading west on Route 16, is turning north from Lake Street onto Pine Street, where Lake takes a jog. In the process, it crosses the ground-level Lake Street “L”. This picture was taken on September 26, 1953. (Robert Selle Photo)

A two-car train of 4000s is on the Lake Street “L” during construction of the Northwest (now Kennedy) expressway on February 25, 1958. The new highway opened in 1960. Further south, the Garfield Park “L” also crossed the highway footprint and had to be shored up around the same time this photo was taken. But once the new Congress rapid transit line opened on June 22, 1958 the Garfield line was no longer needed and the structure was removed where it crossed the highway, cutting the line off from the rest of the system. The remaining portions of structure west of there were removed in 1959; east of there, parts remained until 1964. The Lake Street “L”, on the other hand, rechristened the Green Line, is still here.

In this picture, taken in April 1964, we see the back end of a CTA two-car train of 4000s as they head east at Halsted on the Lake Street “L”. By this time, the western portion of the line had been relocated onto the C&NW embankment, and therefore there was no further need to use overhead wire. But the new 2000-series “L” cars had not yet replaced the 4000s in this line, which they would do shortly. This station, built in 1892-93, was closed in 1994 for the Green Line rehabilitation project, but never reopened. It was demolished in 1996 and the new Morgan station, two blocks to the west, more or less replaced it when it opened in 2012.

On August 13, 1964 CTA single-car unit 45 prepares to stop at Isabella station on the Evanston line. The car is signed as an Evanston Express, but I do not think it would have operated downtown as a single car. Therefore, it must be in Evanston shuttle service. (August 13, 1964 was a Thursday, so the Evanston Express was running that day, though.) (Photo by Douglas N. Grotjahn)

CTA red Pullmans 521 (on Ashland) and 640 (on 63rd Street) meet on May 14, 1953. This was near the end of streetcar service on 63rd. By then, PCC cars had been transferred from 63rd to Cottage Grove. The Curtis restaurant, located in this vicinity but behind the photographer, was a favorite of my parents. It is perhaps no coincidence that I have a brother named Curtis. (Robert Selle Photo)

CTA PCC 4095, built by Pullman, has just left the Madison-Austin loop on the west end of Route 20 on June 1, 1953. Buses continue to use this loop today, although it has been somewhat reconfigured. (Robert Selle Photo)

CTA 4271-4272 head up a northbound Evanston Express train passing through the Chicago Avenue station on June 26, 1958. These two cars, which were originally independent but were converted to semi-permanent “married pairs” in the 1950s, are still on CTA property and within a few years will celebrate their centennial. When the last of the 4000-series “L” cars were retired in 1973, these were chosen for preservation as historic cars. They are occasionally used for special events. (Robert Selle Photo)

CTA red Pullman 270 is on Cicero at North Avenue, where Cicero took a bit of a jog which has since been somewhat straightened out. The date is July 19, 1948. (William Shapotkin Collection)

CTA trolleybus 9219 on Route 77 – Belmont, running eastbound at approximately 952 W. Belmont (near Sheffield). The photographer was up on the north-south “L” platform. (William Shapotkin Collection)

The building in the previous picture is still there. For several years, there was a club on the second floor, first called the Quiet Knight, later on Tut’s. I attended many great concerts there in the 1970s and 80s.

Chicago Surface Lines 1775 crosses the Chicago River at Wabash Avenue on May 30, 1945, promoting the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). The nearby State Street bridge was out of service from 1939 to 1949 due to subway construction and wartime materials shortages.

CSL 1775, decorated to promote the SPARS*, is on 119th one block west of Halsted in August 1943. Car 1775 was chosen for patriotic duty because that was the year the Revolutionary War broke out, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
*The United States Coast Guard (USCG) Women’s Reserve, better known as the SPARS, was the World War II women’s branch of the USCG Reserve. It was established by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 23 November 1942.

On August 25, 1946 CSL one-man car 3093 is running outbound on private right-of-way between Morgan and Throop on Route 23, Morgan-Racine-Sangamon.

On May 25, 1958 we see CTA two-man PCCs 7206 and 4390 at 78th and Wentworth (South Shops). Both were products of St. Louis Car Company, as all 310 postwar Pullman PCCs had been scrapped by then for the “PCC conversion program” that used some of their parts in new 6000-series rapid transit cars. In spite of the roll signs shown here, Chicago streetcars were limited to running on a single route between downtown and the south side. The last northside car ran in 1957. (Robert Selle Photo)

CTA PCC 7151, a product of St. Louis Car Company, heads south on Route 49 – Western at North Avenue in 1953. The “L” station behind it was part of the Humboldt Park branch, which was abandoned in 1952. Once the station was closed, signs advertising “L” service were removed although I don’t believe this portion of the structure was removed until the early 1960s. Note that riders at this safety island are boarding at the rear, as this is a two-man car.

CTA 4393 is at the 79th and Western loop, south end of Route 49, on July 19, 1954. (Robert Selle Photo)

CTA PCC 4376 is turning into the loop at 79th and Western, south end of Route 49, on July 19, 1954. (Robert Selle Photo)

On May 1, 1955 CERA held a fantrip using 2800-series wooden “L” cars. Here, the train makes a photo stop at DesPlaines Avenue in Forest Park, then the western end of the Garfield Park “L”. The terminal had been reconfigured in 1953 when CA&E trains stopped running downtown. It would be reconfigured again in 1959. By 1960, the Congress expressway was extended through this area. (Robert Selle Photo)

CTA two-man arch roof car 3189 is southbound on Halsted Street near the Garfield Park “L” overpass, south of Van Buren Street on September 17, 1953. As had previously happened with 63rd Street, PCCs had been taken off this route and replaced by older red cars for the final few months of service. 3189 is on the bridge that would eventually go over the Congress expressway, which was then under construction. (Robert Selle Photo)

Here’s what photographer Bob Selle wrote on this negative envelope: “”L” cars fresh from the paint shops, MU-coupled, for trip to South side “L” lines: deck roofer 2912 and steel car 4224 at Quincy and Wells platform. June 14th, 1955.”

CSL 4062 was the first postwar PCC put into service. It was built by Pullman. Here, we see it as delivered at 78th and Vincennes on September 30, 1946. Note the different paint scheme the first cars had in the “standee” windows area.

CSL 298 is on Wabash at Cermak on September 14, 1934.

This picture of CTA one-man car 3236, taken on January 14, 1950 shows it crossing Maplewood Avenue on what is obviously an east-west trolley line. John F. Bromley, who sold me this negative, was unsure of the location. Jeff Wien writes, “I would guess that it is at 71st & Maplewood. Bill Hoffman lived all of his life at 6664 S. Maplewood which was a half mile north. Maplewood is a block or two west of Western. Route 67 covered 67th, 69th and 71st as far west as California (2800). Maplewood is around 2600 West. Check out the streets to see if I am correct. The one man cars were used on route 67.” Looks like Jeff is correct, as further research shows that the house at left is still standing at 7053 S. Maplewood.

Photographer Bob Selle writes, “CTA one-man car 6174 eastbound as it crosses Halsted Street on Root Street (43rd Street line), leaving west end of line. August 1, 1953.”

Photographer Bob Selle writes, “Car 6177 leaving south end of Kedzie barn for Cermak Road, February 14, 1953.”

CTA Pullman-built PCC 4084 leaving the Kedzie Station (car barn) on September 13, 1950. The car at right appears to be either a 1949 or 1950 Ford. My father had a 1949 model, and as cars were very much in demand after the end of World War II, the dealer put him on a waiting list. After being on the list for six months, he found that he had actually gone further down the list than he was at the start! So he wrote a letter complaining about this to Henry Ford II, and the next thing you know, they sold him a car. Presumably the PCC is heading out on Route 20 – Madison. (Robert Selle Photo)

This negative did not come with any identifying information, but it is obviously from a February 12, 1939 fantrip where the fledgling Central Electric Railfans’ Association chartered Chicago Rapid Transit Company “L” cars 4317 and 4401 and took them out on parts of the CA&E including the Mount Carmel branch. However, since that line used overhead wire, that’s not where this picture was taken. Instead, it appears to be out near the end of the line at Mannheim and 22nd Street on the CRT’s lightly used Westchester line, which was built in anticipation of housing being built in this area (which did not come about until the 1950s). South of Roosevelt Road, the line was single-track, which appears to be the case here. If not for the Great Depression, more housing would have been built here. We have previously run two other pictures from the same fantrip, both taken on the Mt. Carmel branch. The CTA substituted bus service for “L” on the Westchester line in 1951 as it did not want to continue paying rent to the CA&E, which had already announced its intentions to truncate passenger service to Forest Park, which meant similar rent payments to the CTA were about to cease.

CTA PCC 4087 leaves the Kedzie car barn during the morning rush on July 1, 1953 and is signed for the Madison-Fifth branch line. (Robert Selle Photo)

The end is near for CTA 4402 and the other couple dozen or so PCC cars that remained at the end of service. Ultimately, only car 4391, now at the Illinois Railway Museum, was saved. This picture was taken at 77th Street yards on June 15, 1958. (Robert Selle Photo)

CSL 5387 is westbound at 63rd and Dorchester, having just gone under the Illinois Central viaduct on June 13, 1947. Even though this neg was lightstruck on the top edge (almost all of which I cropped out), I thought it was an interesting streetscape with the diner and what appears to be some sort of pawn shop or resale shop. The Jackson Park branch of the “L” went over the IC at this point, and has since been cut back.

On August 28, 1955 Illinois Central Electric suburban 1161 and its trailer are crossing Halsted Street at 121st on their way to Blue Island. There was a fantrip that day (hence the fans,), but this was not the fantrip train apparently. (Robert Selle Photo)

CSL 1872 is on Franklin at Jackson on June 13, 1947.

CSL red Pullman 293 is at Roosevelt and Wabash on June 13, 1947.

This Chicago, Aurora & Elgin image is from an original 1950s Kodachrome slide that was not processed by Kodak. I am not quite able to make out the car number, but it looks like it is one of the 420s. The location is downtown Elgin, along the Fox River. The Rialto Theater burned down in 1956.

This picture is somewhat blurred, which makes one wonder why the late Edward Frank, Jr. printed it and sold it. But it does show CSL 1819 and a passing Chicago, Aurora & Elgin train. The curved section of track suggests this may have been taken near the Sacramento curve. That’s probably Ed Frank’s bicycle in the lower right hand corner.

It is not often that individual employees can be identified in an old photo such as this, which shows CA&E express freight car #5 (presumably, the second #5, built by Cincinnati Car Company). But the man at left is Clyde Goodrich, a longtime engineer on the interurban. As far as I know, he was still employed there up to the final 1959 abandonment of service.

Clyde B. Goodrich, the man in the left, was born in DeKalb, Illinois on May 17, 1887 and died in Florida on September 1, 1970. His wife’s name was Winifred (1882-1955). In 1920, Clyde lived in Aurora and was employed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. In the 1940 census, he was living in Wheaton and worked as an engineer on the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin. Clyde B. Goodrich and his wife are buried in Wheaton Cemetery.

The caption here reads, “North Western and electric lines stations, Wheaton.” The CA&E is in the foreground. The photo is not dated, but it must be quite early.

This photo, dated May 1966, shows the CA&E’s Wheaton station being torn down.

Demolition is nearly complete in this photo, also dated May 1966.

CA&E wooden interurban car 54. Don’s Rail Photos: “54 was built by Stephonsin in 1903. It was modernized in July 1946 and retired in 1959.”

CA&E wooden freight motor 9. Don’s Rail Photos: “9 was built by Niles Car in 1907. It was scrapped in 1959.”

A crane on a CA&E flat car. This appears to be Wheaton Yard.

North Shore Line car 182 is southbound on the Shore Line Route in North Chicago, Illinois on June 12, 1954. Don’s Rail Photos: “182 was built by Cincinnati Car in September 1920, #2455.” (Robert Selle Photo)

While Chicago’s Congress expressway (now the Eisenhower) is rightly considered its first, Lake Shore Drive preceded it as an “almost” expressway. Here. we see construction taking place on December 13, 1940. Until 1979 LSD had lanes that could be reversed in rush hour by raising and lowering these short barriers. Unfortunately, this resulted in a number of head-on collisions, and these were eventually deactivated. The photo caption reads, “Workmen install line of elevating curbs in new express highway on Chicago’s lake front. The curbs, placed two lanes apart on the eight lane roadway, give extra lanes to rush hour traffic to ease traffic flow. The elevating jacks shown raise the curb to height of nine inches, exert pressure of 12 tons. The retracting springs, having a 10-ton pressure, pull the curbs down when the hydraulic jacks are released. The entire curb system is operated from one central control station.” (Photo by Acme)

Chicago’s Loop in 1959

The following ten images are part of a larger batch we recently purchased. Several of the others show various downtown movie theaters (including the Clark and Garrick) and will be posted in the near future on our “sister” Clark Theater blog. By studying the various films that were playing, I have determined these pictures were taken during the summer of 1959.

Here’s a rather unique view showing the front of the old Wells Street Terminal, or what was left of it anyway, as it appeared in 1959. This terminal was last used by the CA&E in 1953. Two years later, the upper portion of the attractive facade was removed and a new track connection was built so that Garfield Park trains could connect to the Loop “L”. A new connection was needed, since the old one had to give way to construction on Wacker Drive. The remainder of the terminal, and the track connection, were no longer needed after the Congress rapid transit line replaced the Garfield Park “L” in 1958, and they were removed in 1964. Note there is a barber shop occupying part of the building.

A two-car train of CTA 4000s, running on the Lake Street “L”, are at Wabash and Van Buren on the Loop. In the background, you can see the Auditorium Theater building.

The old Epicurean restaurant, at left, was located at 316 S. Wabash and served Hugarian cuisine. A CTA Lake Street train rumbles by above.

A street sign is just barely visible in this photo taken under the Loop “L”, identifying the cross street as Dearborn. Since that is one way southbound downtown, and the arrow is pointing to the right, that implies we are in Lake Street and are looking to the east.

The old Metropolitan “L” crossed the Chicago River just south of Union Station (just visible at left) and had four tracks, necessitating two bridges. After these tracks were taken out of service in June 1958, the bridges were permanently raised, and razed in 1964.

Another view of the same two Met “L” bridges in 1959.

Another photo of the two Met “L” bridges.

It’s not clear where this picture was taken. The two wires that cross the trolley bus wires are, I am told, “feeder span hangers.” The last Chicago trolley bus ran in 1973. The CTA currently has two electric buses that run on batteries, and has just placed an order for 20 more.

Another view of the Loop “L” on south Wabash, probably taken near the locations if the other similar photos showing Lake Street trains.

This photo shows what State Street, that great street, looked like during the summer of 1959. We are looking north from about 400 S. State. The Goldblatt’s department store is at right, and that’s a CTA #36 bus heading south. Streetcar tracks on State have either been removed, or paved over. Note the “grasshopper” style street lights that were installed in 1959.

FYI, here is another view from the same location, taken after streetcar tracks were removed, but before the 1959 installation of those unique street lights:

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(See attribution information for this photo via the link provided above.)

Miscellaneous New Finds

Early Kodachrome images such as this are rare. Here, we see a San Francisco cable car (signed for Powell and Mason) in operation during the summer of 1945. When this picture was taken, the war in Europe had ended, but the US was still fighting Japan. According to the Cable Car Museum web site, this car is currently in service as #3: “Built by the Carter Bros. of Newark, California during 1893-1894 for the Market Street Railway’s Sacramento-Clay cable car line. The United Railroads transferred it to the Powell Street cable car lines in 1907, after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906. Until 1973, numbered as No. 503. No. 3 is painted in Muni’s green and cream paint scheme, which is based on the green and white scheme of the Muni’s former rival between 1921-1944, the Market Street Railway. This was the basic paint scheme for Powell Street cable cars from 1947 to 1982. Extensive rebuilding, by Muni 1955.”

PTC “Peter Witt” 8057 was built by Brill in 1923. Here it is seen on Route 34 in the 1950s. Michael T. Greene writes: “The picture of the Route 34 Peter Witt was taken at 38th and Locust Streets, on what’s now the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. (An alum now resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, but enough of that!). The trolley is using detour trackage onto Locust Street EB, as part of the subway-surface extension of the 1950’s…westbound trackage continued on Locust to 40th Street, where it hung a left turn. Today, 38th Street has been widened to a 2-way street, but still with a trolley track, used as a diversion route for subway-surface Routes 11, 13, 34, and 36. Locust Street was been turned into a pedestrian walkway, and a pedestrian bridge goes over 38th Street these days.”

Philadelphia Transportation Company 7266 is on Route 9, sometime in the 1950s during street construction. Micheal T. Greene writes: “The Route 9 car is on 5th Street south of Market Street. At this time, 5th Street was being widened as part of Independence Mall. Independence Hall is out of this picture to the right.”

Indianapolis Railways “Peter Witt” car 181, also known as a “Master Unit,” a Brill trademark, is signed for College-Broad Ripple on April 16, 1952. This car was built in March 1934 and was one of the last streetcar orders filled before the PCC era. (Robert Selle Photo)

Indianapolis Railways 155 was built by Brill in September 1933. On May 21, 1950 it is at the east end of the Washington Street line on a fantrip.

On August23, 1946, photographer Walter Hulseweder snapped this picture of Indianapolis Railways 131 on Washington Street at Illinois Avenue on the Washington-Sheridan line.

By strange coincidence, this photo showing a Rock Island Motor Transit Company bus was taken in June 21, 1958. Bill shapotkin adds, “The photo was taken at the joint CGW/Greyhound/Jefferson bus station in Rochester, MN. This bus provided connections from/to ROCK trains at Owatonna, MN.” (William Shapotkin Collection)

Mystery Photo

This picture, which could be as old as the 1930s, was listed by the seller as being Chicago. However, I have my doubts, as I am unable to think of a location this could be around here, or what the construction project might be. The sign says “Detour to temporary bridge.” Jeff Wien thinks this might be Philadelphia.

Updates

We’ve added another image to our previous post The Fairmount Park Trolley (November 7. 2017), which includes an extensive section about the Five Mile Beach Electric Railway in Wildwood, New Jersey:

Five Mile Beach Electric Railway car 36 at Warehouse Point, Connecticut on August 16, 1952.

These photos were added to our previous post Red Arrow in West Chester (September 13, 2016):

A SEPTA commuter train, ex-PRR, at West Chester in May 1979. SEPTA rail service to this station ended in 1986, but the West Chester Railroad began running a not-for-profit tourist operation of train service on weekends between West Chester and Glen Mills in 1997. (Photo by Paul Kutta)

Red Arrow “Master Unit” 79 is inbound in 1949 on either the Media or Sharon Hill line, in spite of the sign saying Ardmore (thanks to Kenneth Achtert for that correction). He adds, “It was (still is) standard practice for Red Arrow operators, when changing ends at the outer end of their route, to set the sign on what would be the rear of the car for the inbound trip to read their next outbound destination. Thus, when the car arrived at 69th St. Terminal and went around the loop to the boarding platform the rear destination sign was already set. This was actually the more important sign, as most passengers approached the cars from the rear coming from the main terminal (and from the Market-Frankford Elevated line).” (Mark D. Meyer Photo)

Red Arrow “Master Unit” 82 is at the 69th Street Terminal on August 8, 1948. (Walter Broschart Photo)

On September 12, 1959, Philadelphia Suburban Transportation 3, a 1941 “Brilliner,” is on Lippincott Avenue north of County Line Road, on the short Ardmore line which was bussed in 1966.

Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (aka “Red Arrow”) cars 5 and 14 pose at 69th Street Terminal on June 22, 1963. The car at left is a Brilliner, from the last batch of trolleys built by Brill in 1941. The car at right was built by the St. Louis Car Company in 949. Although it looks much like a PCC, it was not considered such as it had standard interurban trucks and motors. Both types of cars were double-ended.

We’ve added this image to our extensive section about the Fort Collins (Colorado) Birney car operation in Our 150th Post (August 6, 2016):

Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney car 22 in the city park on April 30, 1947.

Recent Correspondence

Our resident South Side expert M. E. writes:

Your latest post has a bunch of good stuff.

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Interesting that you think this picture might be of your mother and you. In the book “In Search of Steam” by Joe Collias (which I do not have), there is a picture taken at Englewood Union Station of a young boy, bundled in winter clothing, watching a New York Central steam engine come into the station. I’d swear that young boy is me.

The movie of the last PCC streetcar almost made me cry. My last ride on a Chicago streetcar occurred in early June when my high-school best friend and I rode one car from 81st and Halsted to 63rd and Wentworth, then another car ack to 81st and Halsted. Also: Probably less than a week after the last streetcar ran, I graduated high school. So this time frame is especially meaningful to me. (Please don’t publish this, it’s just for your information.)

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In this photo, did you notice the swell “woodie” station wagon?

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Your text beneath this picture fascinates me. You say your parents frequented the Curtis restaurant at 63rd and Ashland. Does that mean you grew up around there? I grew up a mile east of this junction.

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The text under this picture says the South Shops was at 78th and Wentworth. Not so. South Shops was at 77th and Vincennes on the east side of Vincennes. And the land it occupied was huge — from 77th and Vincennes east to about Perry (a block west of State St.) and south to 79th. I haven’t been there in a long time, but maybe the CTA still has all that land.

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I’d have to agree that this car is on 71st St. west of Western. Because you say 7053 S. Maplewood is at the left, I contend the streetcar is heading west to 71st and California. One small nit: The caption says “Bill Hoffmann lived all of his life at 6664 S. Maplewood.” Unless there was an extra-long block between 66th and
67th (Marquette Blvd.) on Maplewood, the address would have to be 6654. Normally there are 60 addresses to a block, from 00 to 59.

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This is an interesting picture. As the caption indicates, the car had just left the west end of its line. That west end was west of Halsted between two buildings. It was a dead end, providing only a switch from westbound to eastbound track. Also: You previously published a photo taken here, on Halsted St. south of Root, looking north. In that photo was a 44 Wallace-Racine car turning from west on Root to south on Halsted. (In this current photo you can see the trackage for this turn.) Also in that previous photo was the Halsted St. station of the Stock Yards L.

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This is your mystery photo. I agree that this can’t be a Chicago
scene, for the reason that I know of no elevated trackage in Chicago that was so low to the ground. Also, the elevated train does not look like any Chicago L train I remember.

M E

Thanks very much for your interesting observations!

I don’t think that the woman and boy actually are me, but they certainly resemble us in 1958. My mother dressed like that all the time, and the kid is about my age.

We lived on the west side, in Mont Clare. My mother’s parents lived in Englewood and that’s where she was living when my parents met. So naturally, they frequented restaurants in the neighborhood.

63rd and Ashland was bustling back then.

The June 18, 1958 Southtown Economist gives Dorothy Hoffman’s address as 6622 S. Maplewood. I believe Bill Hoffman lived with his sister, so perhaps that is the correct address.

If you think 63rd and Ashland was busy, you should have seen 63rd and Halsted, which was the heart of Englewood. Somewhere I once read that 63rd and Halsted was the busiest commercial district in Chicago outside the Loop. It was a great place to grow up because there were three streetcar lines (8, 42, 63), the Englewood L (which I could see from our building), and railroad stations east on 63rd at Wallace and La Salle.

Good point! People tend to forget these things, as certain areas of the city became depopulated to some extent, and urban renewal leveled entire blocks.

We’ll let Jeff Wien have the last word:

Streetcars, streetcars, streetcars. They seem to be popping up all over the country. And who would have thought 60 years ago that there would be such a renaissance! I was called a trolley jolly because I favored streetcars. The Millenials like them.

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Milwaukee Streetcars, 60 Years On

May 3, 2018May 3, 2018David Sadowski 7 Comments

523 on the Lakeside Belt Line shuttle.

This post features prolific author Larry Sakar, who looks back at the history of Milwaukee streetcars. While it has now been 60 years since their demise, the new Milwaukee streetcar line, aka “The Hop,” is just months away from operation. What goes around sometimes comes around!

Soon it will be possible to take new pictures of Milwaukee streetcars, as they will be tested this summer. Operators are being hired, and testing out on the streets may start as early as next month.

Our thanks go out to Larry for producing another excellent article about a topic he obviously loves so much.

-David Sadowski

Milwaukee Streetcars, 60 Years On

by Larry Sakar

March 1, 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the last regularly scheduled streetcar in Milwaukee. I use the term “regularly scheduled” because streetcar service on the Lakeside Belt Line employee shuttle between the Lakeside Power Plant and Kinnickinnic Avenue continued until 1961. Though intended solely for use by employees of the power plant, some Milwaukee streetcar fans were able to ride it as far as the power plant gates, according to a number of sources.

Although I have written about the Milwaukee Rapid Transit line and the interurbans, I was only 8 months old when Speedrail ran its last miles, so I never saw nor had the pleasure of experiencing it. But the streetcars were a different story. I was 7 years old when the last cars on Route 10 Wells Street made their final runs on March 1, 1958.

My grandmother who introduced me to the thrill of riding the streetcar and I did ride the “10” on that last day. In fact, except for one very early ride on Route 11-Vliet Street a week or so before service west of downtown was converted to buses, all of my streetcar rides were on Route 10 and always between the Harwood Avenue terminal on Wauwatosa and 4th & Wells Streets downtown. We did take a ride on the West Allis branch just one time, but I am unable to recall it beyond only the vaguest recollection.

First, we will look at the earliest beginnings of streetcars in Milwaukee thru the 700 series cars. In the final years of streetcar operation by The Transport Company (The Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. which bought out TMER&T in November of 1952), only the 800 and 900 series streetcars were left and those are the cars I rode. Being only 7 years old when the cars quit I obviously did not keep any record of which cars I rode. To me, a streetcar was a streetcar!

Like most cities, Milwaukee streetcars were horse-drawn or cable cars before electrification. Milwaukee had several independent systems, such as the Milwaukee City Railway Company (March 1865), the West Side Street Railway Company (July 1875), and the Milwaukee Cable Railway Company (December 1887). The very first electric streetcar line was operated by the West Side Railway Company on test run over their new Wells-Wisconsin line on April 3, 1890.

After various sales, takeovers and consolidations, electric streetcar service in Milwaukee was taken over by the newly formed The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company on January 29, 1896. From that day until September 23, 1938 when TMER&L was split into two companies because of the 1935 Utilities Holdings Act (which declared companies providing both electric power and transportation monopolies had to divest one or the other), TMER&L would operate all streetcar and interurban service in Milwaukee.

Thereafter, the newly formed The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transport Company (or “The Transport Company” for short) took over all rail operations as well as trackless trolley and bus service. Both TMER&L and TMER&T always insisted on use of the definite article as part of their company name.

In November 1952, TMER&T was sold to a group of investors from Milwaukee, Chicago and Indianapolis. The newly formed Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corporation continued to use “The Transport Company” appellation until municipal ownership finally came to Milwaukee with the formation of the Milwaukee County Transit System in July, 1975.

TMER&T had initially offered the city of Milwaukee “first crack” at buying it out but the city was not interested. The “Transport Company” name became so ingrained in the minds of the riding public that it was several years before the new MCTS name caught on.

TMER&L was well aware of its “horse car roots” and actually preserved a horse car. It was on display on the second floor of the company’s corporate headquarters in the Public Service Building on North 2nd and West Michigan Streets for many years. It would be brought out on special occasions, such as this city celebration as shown in this 1921 article from the Electric Railway Journal. A photo of one of Milwaukee’s first electric streetcars graced an MCTS weekly pass in the 1980s. Other events such as the 20th anniversary of the “last streetcar” were commemorated on this 1978 weekly pass.

The Good News

It has taken 60 years, but streetcars are coming back to Milwaukee starting this Fall. The new 2.3 mile Milwaukee streetcar circulator line is expected to begin service on November 25th of this year. A 0.75 mile extension to the lakefront and Summerfest grounds is slated to follow in 2019. The new streetcar will be called “The HOP”. Thanks to Potawatomie Hotel and Casino, the first year of operation will be free. The line will begin at 4th and St. Paul Avenue, adjacent to the Milwaukee Intermodal station which will be handy for anyone coming up to Milwaukee from Chicago on Amtrak or from the west on the Empire Builder.

No PCCs?

You’ll note that there are no pictures of TM PCCs. Thats because TM never bought any. TM President Sylvester B. Way was a member of the Electric Railway Presidents Conference Committee. In their book, “PCC: The Car That Fought Back” (Interurban Press, 1980) authors Stephen P. Carlson and Fred W. Schneider III provided this 1936 quote from S.B. Way:

“I think it is very clear now that certain companies will be able to make very little, if any, use so far as they are concerned of these improvements, either because the rail transportation is disappearing in their areas or because it just isn’t in the business.”

Apparently, Way had joined the ERPCC thinking it was going to provide ways to improve existing streetcars not build an entirely new car. Every streetcar TM ever built or bought was double-ended. This eliminated the need for turning loops at the end of the lines.

If TM were to have purchased PCCs they would have been faced with two alternatives; either build turning loops at the end of every streetcar line (completely impractical if not impossible in quite a few locations like Harwood Ave. and 70th & Greenfield on Rt. 10 or Delaware and Oklahoma Aves. at the south end of Rt. 15). This would have left TM with but one other option; buy double-ended PCCs . Then there were all of the various patent and licensing fees connected to the PCCs. TM was notoriously cheap. S.B. Way would not hear of it!

When Way said that some companies just weren’t in the business he was probably referring to TM. By the time the first PCCs went into service on the Brooklyn & Queens Railway in New York in 1936 TM had turned its back on streetcars. The management had fallen in love with trolley buses and conversions from rail to rubber soon started. The corporate split in 1938 only exacerbated the matter. Had it not been for the intervention of WWII streetcars in Milwaukee would have been history long before March 1958. And even if TM had purchased PCCs, it would done little to change the anti-rail sentiment that prevailed from 1936 on.

The 300-Series Articulated Streetcars

TMER&L was noted for their frugality. As such, they were very fond of articulated streetcars dating back to the early 1900s. Here we see unit 338-339 awaiting scrapping at the Waukesha Gravel Pit in 1948 photo by TM Motorman Ed Wilson. All Milwaukee streetcars thru the 700-series met their end at the gravel pit, until the demise of Speedrail in June 1951. The last cars scrapped here were those belonging to Speedrail between March and October 1952.

300-series city cars being scrapped at the Waukesha gravel pit. (Ed Wilson photo)

The 500-Series Cars

The first 500-series car debuted on April 30, 1911. Initially built to be two-man cars they were first assigned to the Wells- Downer Line (Route 10). Rumor is that in retaliation for resident complaints about noisy streetcars, TM President John I. Beggs (who designed the cars) ordered the floors to be constructed of 6 inch thick concrete. But according to historical research, that rumor was not true. These would be TMs last deck-roofed cars. From this point on all Milwaukee streetcars would have arch roofs.

In the early ’20s TM became committed to one-man operation and began converting the 600s by removing the large pot-bellied stove from the front platform and installing electric heating. Controls and door arrangements were also redone to permit one-man operation.

The conversion to one-man service was not without its problems. In 1921, the City of Milwaukee actually swore out a complaint against TM company officials claiming that the conversion to one-man operation of streetcars violated a 1919 city ordinance forbidding the operation of any streetcar by less then two men. TMER&L fired back by showing that the Wisconsin Railroad Commission, the state body that oversaw all rail operations in the state (and predecessor to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin which it became in 1930) had approved one-man operation.

The accompanying articles from the company’s house organ “Rail & Wire” show how the 500s were converted into one-man cars. Note the fare box (item 15) seen in one of the photos. These were homemade fare boxes and they lasted into the MCTS era. On the front of the fare box was a metal sign which read “PASSENGERS PLEASE PLACE FARE IN BOX. CONDUCTORS NOT PERMITTED TO HANDLE FARE.” I often wondered what bus riders unaware of Milwaukee transit history made of the sign. Eventually, MCTS pasted a sticker over the sign. These fare boxes became unusable after fares topped $1.00, as they were not designed to handle paper money which caused them to jam.

The TM book (“TM: The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company” by Joseph M. Canfield, Bulletin 112 of the Central Electric Railfans Association, 1972) mentions that some of the 500-series cars had Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum dispensers mounted on the posts between every two or three windows. That is true. My late father once mentioned riding the Route 15 streetcar out to one of the prestigious country clubs in Milwaukee’s north shore suburbs and seeing them. As a teenager he worked as a caddie and among the people for whom he caddied was Chicagos Phillip K. Wrigley. I can still hear him telling me about the experience: “That old man Wrigley was a cheapskate. He would tip the caddies a nickel and a stick of gum! What a tightwad!”

The 500-series cars were all scrapped between 1948 and 1952. The lone survivor was car 523 which operated on the Lakeside Belt Line shuttle until 1954 when it was replaced by car 882. Then 500s, by the way were the first streetcars to wear the new orange and ivory paint scheme adopted for one man cars.

TM 600s and 500s awaiting scrapping at Oakland Station in 1949.

TM 576 Front close-up on Route 15.

The 600-Series Cars

The 600-series cars were less than half the length of a 500. Of the 60 cars in this series, 30 were built in TM’s Cold Spring Shops and 30 came from TM’s streetcar builder St. Louis Car Company. I call St. Louis TM’s streetcar builder because they constructed nearly every streetcar that ran in Milwaukee.

What made St. Louis Car Company so much better than other builders like Pullman or J.G. Brill? St. Louis Car Company was part of the North American Company which also happened to be TMs parent company. And after being forced out of TM in 1911 John I. Beggs became president of St. Louis Car Company. He eventually worked his way back into TM in 1920 and served as TM’s president until his death in October 1925.

The 600s were among the most ubiquitous streetcars ever built. Upon their arrival in 1912 they were initially placed in service on the Route 12 service to North Milwaukee, paired with 1200-series interurban trailers. The article reproduced here describes that service and comes from Electric Railway Journal. In 1927-28, ten of the 600s (601-610) were upgraded for service on the line to Cudahy and South Milwaukee. The upgrade included globe lights, smoking compartments and leather seats. Two cars of this series (604-605) also saw service on the Local West Side Rapid Transit line to West Junction, before the line was completed between 8th and 40th Streets.

Like the 500s, TM attempted to convert the 600s into one-man cars but the attempt failed. The platform on the 600-series cars were too small to accommodate both boarding and disembarking passengers. Only seven of the 600s were ever so converted. The 600s became the cars seen on Routes 19 and 37 where they proved to be ideal. Their days of service came to an end when Route 19 service was converted to trackless trolley operation in March 1948.

Three cars initially escaped the scrapper’s torch. Cars 626 and 636 saw service on the Lakeside Shuttle until they were replaced by 882, after which they too met their end at the Waukesha Gravel Pit. In 1949, car 607 was purchased from TMER&T by a railfan group called the Railroad Historical Foundation. 607 was chosen because it was the last 600 to go through Cold Spring Shops.

The car was stored at the yards adjacent to the never-completed subway at 8th and Hibernia Streets. Periodic work sessions were held to restore the car. The group’s ultimate goal was to restore the car completely, then move it out to the Municipality of East Troy Railway, where they were hoping to establish a trolley museum. Approximately 3/4ths of the canvas roof had been replaced when Speedrail was abandoned on June 30, 1951. The group was subsequently informed by scrapper Hyman-Michaels Co. that unless the car was removed from the Speedrail property it would be taken to Waukesha and scrapped. With most of the group members drafted into the military because of the Korean War, no one was left to find it a new home and it was sold for scrap.

TM 636 on the Lakeside Belt Line shuttle.

TM 660 at North Side Station, 3-31-48.

TM 660 at Fiebrantz Station, 3-31-48.

The 700-Series Cars

The TM book refers to these as the “awful 700s.” Built in 1917 as center-entrance cars and complete with jumpers for multiple unit operation in trains of two or three cars, they represented a radical shift in Milwaukee streetcar design. They were apparently ill-suited to TM’s needs from the start.

The 700s were rebuilt as one-man cars in the 1920s. This involved removing the center doors and raising the level of the floor. End doors were added and m.u. controls removed.

As bus substitutions for streetcars increased the cars saw use only in rush hour tripper service. All were retired by 1953.

A TM 700-series car at National Avenue car station. (Herb Danneman collection)

TM 600s and 700s being scrapped at the Waukesha gravel pit in 1949. (Ed Wilson photo)

Loading wheel sets from scrapped 600s and 700s. (Ed Wilson photo)

The 800s

Car 850 as originally built, location unknown. (Collection of Robert Genack)

Two 800’s and two Twin Coach buses meet at 3rd and State. (Robert Genack collection)

Two 800s and a 500 meet at Northside station. (Robert Genack collection)

803 at the north end of Rt. 27 – 35th & Silver Spring. (Don Ross photo)

Car 804.

845 at Bolivar and Howell Avenues in the 1940’s. (Duane Matuszak collection)

866 eastbound on 7th and Mitchell Streets. (Robert Genack collection)

870 at the south end of Rt. 40 in St. Francis – Kinnickinnic & St. Francis Ave. (Robert Genack collection)

Car 871.

The 900s

A 900 and a snow sweeper stuck in a drift on West Lisbon Avenue in 1947.

I originally identified this as an 800 stuck in a snowdrift on Lisbon Ave. in the famous Blizzard of ’47. I just ran across the collection of “Remember When” articles that used to run in the Milwaukee Journal and found the same picture. It looks like it’s a 900 and the caption says it’s stuck on 27th & Brown. If you can’t see the center window of an 800 or 900 head-on, it’s hard to tell which it is.

907 as originally built., at an unknown location. (Robert Genack collection)

913 Northbound at 84th and National. (Don Ross photo)

TM 916 is eastbound, passing National car station at 27th and National.

943 at 3rd and Michigan – TM publicity shot. (Robert Genack collection)

947 at Fond du Lac station, the north end of Rt. 23. (Ed Wilson photo)

964 at 81st and Greenfield. WTL Waukesha bus following. (Don Ross photo)

A publicity shot of 976 at 38th and McKinley outside Cold Spring shops. (Larry Sakar collection)

TM 978 on Rt. 13 on Clybourn near Cass and Michigan Streets. (Herb Danneman collection)

979 at 37th and National, on the last run of Rt. 18, 11-25-55. (Herb Danneman photo)

TM 993 at Howell and Howard. Note car in pocket ahead. (Don Ross photo)

The front platform of a TM 900.

Interior view of a 900-series car with leather seats. (Herb Danneman photo)

Winter 1955-1956

With the conversion of so many streetcar lines to either trolleybus or diesel bus operation by this time, The Transport Company (M&STC) found itself short of space at several car stations for new GM diesel and second-hand Marmon-Herrington trolley buses. A decision was made to move about ten surplus streetcars to the County Stadium storage track.

This was not a scrap line, but merely what the company thought would be a safe, out-of-the-way place to store cars. They incorrectly assumed that with no one living nearby, the cars would go undisturbed. In the first photo car 925 shows just how “undisturbed” the cars were. Note the many holes in the front windows. The abundance of ballast on the right-of-way provided sufficient ammunition for vandals who just couldn’t resist sending rocks through the car windows. Other cars like 929, seen in the second photo as well as 933, were also part of this group. According to former Milwaukee resident Al Buetschle who saved TM 978, the end result was that all ten cars went to the scrapper after being stored in the Calvary Cemetery cut on the stadium spur.

Car 925 at the Hawley Road platform in the winter of 1955-56. Note the many holes from rocks thrown through the car windows. (Ed Wilson photo)

Car 929 and others stored on the County Stadium spur in the winter of 1955-1956. (Don Ross photo)

Cars With Special Paint Jobs

An 800 series car advertising the benefits of an “Army Career” passes Milwaukee City Hall northbound on N. Water Street. (Larry Sakar collection)

TM 871 (painted for fire prevention week) is seen at 19th and Hopkins Streets on Rt. 12. (Earl Ruhland photo)

A 900 painted with an ad for the U.S. Air Force pauses in front of National Car station at 27th and National on Rt. 18. (Larry Sakar collection)

Passes, Time Tables, Transfers, and Car Checks

I have a number of TM passes from the 1930s and ’40s. I also have a Milwaukee streetcar transfer and a very early “commutation ticket.” These were later replaced with smaller tickets. TM just called them tickets, but my grandmother always called them “(street) car checks.”

I remember the first time we were going downtown after streetcar service ended in March ’58. She reached into her purse and tore off a car check for herself and one for me. The ones I recall had a drawing of a streetcar, trolleybus and diesel bus on one side and “The Transport Company” in the companys diamond logo on the reverse.

I asked if we were going to ride the streetcar again . After all, how could you have car checks with0out streetcars? She said, “There are no more streetcars. They were all taken off of the line.” I didn’t understand how that could be until she told me that they could also be used on buses. For a second I held out hope that The Transport Company had changed their mind and decided to keep streetcars, but there was no reprieve.

Here are some samples of passes and timetables. Also, the early car check had the Public Service Building on the back side. The two passes from the present-day MCTS era commemorate streetcar anniversaries which is why I included them. The type of “car check” I remember has also been scanned. My memory was playing tricks on me. The diamond logo was not on it.

The reason it says “Good within the single fare area of Milwaukee only” is because Milwaukee had what were called zone fares. They could vary from as few as one zone to as many as four on the South Milwaukee-Cudahy line. Each zone was an additional five cents in fare. In the ’60s I used to love to ride the Route 80 bus to Mitchell Field and watch planes. Mitchell Airport was two zones, so you had to drop ten cents in the fare box when you got on or off there. You’ll see a couple of weekly passes with coupons attached. The coupon, which raised the cost of the pass, entitled you to ride into as many zones as was indicated on the coupon without having to pay an extra cash fare.

A TMER&L streetcar transfer (front).

A TMER&L streetcar transfer (back).

One of the very first TM weekly passes.

An early TM car check (front).

An early TM car check (back).

The Route 10 timetable for May 29, 1955.

The Route 11 timetable for December 19, 1955.

An M&STC car check (back).

An M&STC car check (front).

Miscellaneous Photos

After 1958, the next time I saw a Milwaukee streetcar was when 978 (saved by Al Buetschle) was on the temporary storage track net to General Lumber Company on Milwaukee’s northwest side. That was where Al and a friend of his worked on repainting and doing work on the interior of the car. The Milwaukee Journal ran a photo of Al and his friend working inside the car and that is how my grandparents found out it was there. His friend’s son was sitting in the motorman’s seat which brought back memories of the times I did the same.

In 1983 Al and his streetcar were reunited, when 978 was sent to San Francisco for the first historic streetcar festival. He had someone snap a picture of him putting up the trolley pole. I have this copy of it. The classic “T-Bird” convertible was Al’s. It was wrecked when he was hit by some teenagers out for a joy ride. Of course they were uninsured! The T-Bird was damaged beyond repair.

Al B. posing with his T-Bird and TM 978 in SFO 1983.

The Harwood Avenue Terminal Site on Route 10 today.

I took this photo at Des Plaines Ave. Forest Park on what was then the West-Northwest Rapid Transit line probably in the summer of 1972. I was standing on the blacktopped walkway to the parking lot and crouched down to get a view looking up at what was then one of the relatively new 2200 series cars.

CTA 4000s in Linden Avenue yard ca. 1972.

Tunnel beneath abandoned NSL r.o.w. at Rondout, Illinois, showing date built (1904). Taken 1992.

Tunnel beneath abandoned NSL r.o.w. at Rondout, Illinois, 1992.

Abandoned NSL Mundelein Branch r.o.w. at Lake Bluff in`1992.

Abandoned NSL r.o.w. showing bracket for catenary on tower at right.

Abandoned NSL r.o.w. crossing Gross Point Road.

Abandoned NSL r.o.w. north of Dempster Street, Skokie.

Chicago Trolleys

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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A New Year- A New Beginning

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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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
Š
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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Our 200th Post

November 25, 2017November 27, 2017David Sadowski 13 Comments

CTA Pullman-built PCC 4281 on Route 36 – Broadway-State. Andre Kristopans: “4281 is on 119th east of Morgan.”

It is fitting that our 200th Trolley Dodger blog post should appear on Thanksgiving weekend. There is always so much in life to be thankful for.

We are thankful for our relative good health (knock on wood), and thankful for friends and family. Since we began this venture in January 2015, we have made many new friends among our readers.

I am thankful to be able to share these classic images with you.

After wandering far afield recently to such exotic places as Milwaukee and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, we are home for the holidays with an all-new post chock full of Chicago transit pictures.

We wanted to make this one something special. But that is our goal with every post… we want #199 to be as good as #200, and #201 to be as good as this one. We may not always succeed, but it is not for lack of trying.

Enjoy!

-David Sadowski

PS- We threw in a few shots from outside the Chicago area, just because we liked them.

Meet the Author

Incredibly, this building, which served as the terminal for the Logan Square branch of Chicago’s “L” until 1970, is still there, although heavily modified, and now serves as the home of City Lit Books at 2523 N. Kedzie. (Chicago Transit Authority Photo)

FYI, this Saturday at 5 pm (11-25) I will be at City Lit Books (2523 N. Kedzie Blvd., Chicago) to discuss my new book Chicago Trolleys. Additional authors will be there as well. Their books are Cycling in Chicago and The Great Chicago Fire. I hope to see you there.

More information here.

Recent Correspondence

Wally Weart writes:

David, I want to let you know how much I enjoy your postings. I grew up in Chicago during and after World War II and was able to ride a lot of the streetcar and “L” lines as well as those interurbans still in operation through the 50s and 60s.

Your pictures bring back a lot of memories and show me things that I missed during that period of time as well. Please do know how much your work is appreciated and keep it going.

I appreciate that, thanks! I will do my best.

Another of our regular readers writes:

Creative writing has always been your skill, whether it was the CERA blog, the Trolley Dodger blog, as well as several CERA publications. Some of your postings on the Trolley Dodger blog are mini stories in themselves. Writing seems to come easily to you and you do it well. Such has never been the case for me. Although I have done some writing, maintaining a blog like you do would be boring to me.

I was extremely impressed with your postings on the Fairmount Trolley, the CA&E 400 series Pullmans, and Andre Kristopan’s analysis of the end of the Red streetcars (see our post The Fairmount Park Trolley, November 7, 2017).

Thanks… I think that everyone has a unique contribution to make in life, and we all need to find that “niche” for ourselves. I seem to have found mine with this type of work. No doubt there are other things you excel at that would leave me clueless.

While some might think working on a blog such as this would be a burden, I consider it a privilege and a responsibility. Like many other things in life, you get back out of it what you put in. I hear from so many people who are grateful to see our posts. Like The Beatles famously sang, “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

It’s anything but boring to me, because in the process of researching these articles, I always learn so much. And when I do get things wrong, which does happen, our readers are quick to point that out, and I learn from that too. So, we all learn together and I feel that our readers are an integral part of what goes on here. So again, I am thankful to you.

If you challenge yourself to “think outside the box,” you can achieve more in life than you ever dreamed possible. There is so much to learn in life that I don’t see how it would ever be possible to be bored. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day to take it all in.

Recent Finds

A westbound Garfield Park “Met” car crosses the B&OCT tracks in Forest Park.

In July 1965, a two-car train of flat-door CTA 6000s is on the ground-level portion of the Ravenswood route, todays’ Brown Line. (Roger Puta Photo)

CSL Small Pullman 891 is on north Lincoln Avenue, running on Through route 3 (Lincoln-Indiana). Cliff Burnstein adds, “The CSL small Pullman 891 is on the northbound track at the end of the line on Lincoln at Peterson near Kedzie. . The poles have been reversed and 891 will shortly cross over to the southbound track. The north suburban gas tower is seen in the distance to the right.”

CTA “Turtleback” 1702 is at Division and California.

CSL 584, a Milwaukee Avenue car, is at Madison and Canal, in front of the Chicago Daily News building.

CTA 6152 at Waveland and Halsted, north end of the Halsted car line in April 1952.

CTA 1801 at Kedzie and 67th Streets on March 28, 1948.

CTA 407, signed for the Museum Loop, is on Roosevelt Road in August 1949.

CTA535 on Milwaukee at Paulina in April 1951 (this is the date that I received with this negative, however it must be wrong). Milwaukee was converted to buses on May 11, 1952. George Trapp: “The photo at Milwaukee and Paulina looks to me to be earlier than 1951, auto at far right looks like it dates to late 1920’s early 1930’s and no post war autos are in sight so I guess the photo is from the late 1930’s early 1940’s.”

CTA 363 at the Pennsylvania Railroad viaduct at Ashland and Arbor in March 1951. Andre Kristopans notes, “363 Ashland north of Fulton – bridge has three railroads over it, closer behind car is PRR with Milwaukee Road also using the same tracks, beyond is C&NW. Note that street under bridge is much narrower than rest of street. Ashland was widened relatively late, and the bridges were never widened out to this day.”

CTA 415 at Cermak and Kenton. The date given is August 2, 1949, but that must be wrong, since there is a Chicago & West Towns streetcar at left and the 415 still has a CSL logo. So perhaps 1947 would be more like it as the West Towns streetcars quit in April 1948.

CTA Sedan 3358, still sporting a CSL logo, is at Cottage Grove and 115th, south end of the Cottage Grove line, in May 1948.

CTA 6168, signed for Route 38, is on the Wabash Avenue bridge in October 1951.

CSL Sedan 6316 is on Wentworth and 73rd Street, running on Route 22, Clark-Wentworth.

CSL 3318 is at Damen and 74th on November 28, 1946.

CTA Pullman 585 is signed for Halsted and Waveland in February 1954, which suggests it is running on Route 8 – Halsted, which was bussed three months later. Andre Kristopans: “585 is on Emerald south of 79th.”

CTA 6172 is at Lawrence and Austin on February 26, 1950, running on Route 81.

Some passengers are getting off CSL 3312, which is running on the Damen Avenue extension. This gives you an idea of how some men dressed back in the 1940s when it was cold out.

CSL work car S-53. Not sure of the location.

CTA 4380, signed for Clark-Wentworth, on June 30, 1955. This may be South Shops.

CTA Postwar PCC 7053 is signed for Route 38 in this November 1952 view. This designation was used for Route 4 – Cottage Grove cars to indicate they were terminating at Grand and Wabash. As you can see, some postwar cars were used on Cottage, and this one appears to have been converted to one-man operation.

CSL 7054 in the late 1940s, running on Route 22, probably near the south end of the line. Andre Kristopans: “7054 is AT the south end of 22 – 81st and Halsted about to turn north into Halsted.”

CTA 4008, in “tiger stripes,” is on Route 20 – Madison in March 1948. Notice the sign advertising the Chicago Herald-American, which at this time was owned by the Hearst Corporation. It was sold to the Chicago Tribune in 1956.

North Shore Line wood car 300,in the days circa 1939-42 when it was used as the “club car” for the fledgling Central Electric Railfans’ Association.

North Shore Line “Birney” car 333 circa 1947. (Donald Ross Photo) Larry Sakar says this is “southbound at 5th & Chase.”

North Shore Line wood car 201, which looks like it is headed for the scrapper (probably in the late 1940s). (Donald Ross Photo)

South Shore Line car 107 at the South Bend terminal near the LaSalle Hotel in 1954. (Walter Hulseweder Photo)

Chicago Rapid Transit Company “L” car 328 at Indiana Avenue in September 1936. It is signed as a Stock Yards local.

CRT “Met” car 2847 at Canal in August 1938. Riders could change here for Union Station. This station remained in service until June 1958, when the Congress rapid transit line opened.

CTA Pullman 908 is at Navy Pier, east end of Route 65 – Grand.

South Shore Line car 110 is in South Bend, not far from the LaSalle Hotel which was its east terminus until 1970. I presume it is heading into a storage yard.

CSL experimental pre-PCC 4001 at South Shops in 1934. Like its counterpart 7001, it was used in service that year to bring people to A Century of Progress, the Chicago World’s Fair.

CTA PCC 4168 is seen in 1949, signed for Route 42 – Halsted-Downtown (note the side sign says Halsted-Archer-Clark). There is a Route 8 – Halsted car behind it. The location is on Emerald south of 79th.

CTA 7052 appears to be in dead storage at South Shops on June 30, 1955. Note the lack of overhead wire.

CTA 4025 at South Shops on June 30, 1955.

A train of CRT steel 4000s emerges from the brand-new State Street subway in late 1943.

Cable cars are shown here using the LaSalle Street tunnel under the Chicago River some time before they were replaced by streetcars in 1906.

CTA 4035 on Cottage Grove in 1953. Not sure of the exact location. (Walter Hulseweder Photo)

CTA 4004 running on State Street, signed for Route 4 – Cottage Grove, in the early 1950s. (Walter Broschart Photo)

CSL 4039 at the Madison and Austin Loop in August 1941.

CSL 7018, a Madison-Fifth car, heads west near Union Station in August 1941.

CTA 7067 at South Shops on June 30, 1955. The “Enter at Rear” sign indicates this was a two-man car and was thus not one that had recently been assigned to Western Avenue. However, chances are the date I received is wrong, since George Trapp notes: ” The photo of PCC #7067 at South Shops shows the car brand new, note CSL logo, so should be dated around May 18, 1947 when that car was delivered, for some reason St. Louis Car cranked the side signs to HALSTED on there first order of Post War cars when shipping. I have a photo of car #7089 just delivered with same side sign.”

CTA 7225 at South Shops in 1956.

Don’s Rail Photos says that North shore Line wood car 131 “was built by Jewett Car in 1907. It was rebuilt in 1914 and rebuilt as a plow in 1930. It was retired in 1935 and scrapped in 1942.”

CTA 7060 on June 30, 1955, possibly in dead storage.

CTA 7041, possibly in dead storage at South Shops on June 30, 1955.

CSL 7025 is downtown and signed for Madison-Fifth, which was a branch line of Route 20.

CSL 7090 is at 81st and Halsted, south end of Route 22, in the late 1940s.

CTA 7156 is signed as a one-man car (but appears to be convertible to two-man) at South Shops in October 1956. (Walter Hulseweder Photo)

CTA 4022 heading east on 63rd Street in the early 1950s.

CTA 4094 in dead storage at South Shops on June 30, 1955. Postwar Pullmans were an endangered species by then, practically all having been scrapped as part of the CTA’s “PCC Conversion Program.” I believe the date is correct; however George Trapp says, “Last Pullman PCC’s to be sent off to St. Louis were the oldest while the newest were sent first, 150 cars in series 4172-4371 went in 1953 with the rest in early 1954.”

CTA 4401 on October 21, 1950.

CTA 4401, with 4376 trailing, is heading north on Dearborn via Route 22 in 1955.

CTA 7268 is signed for Route 36 – Broadway-State and appears to be near Devon Station (car barn) in 1955. (Walter Hulseweder Photo)

CTA side dump car N-1 at South Shops on May 16, 1954. A CERA fantrip was held on that day, over the last remaining streetcar lines that used the old red cars, which were retired from service two weeks later. (James C. Barrick Photo)

CTA side dump car N-1 at South Shops in October 1956. (Walter Hulseweder Photo)

Capital Transit Company pre-PCC 1053 is on line 42 – Mt. Pleasant in Washington, D. C. on September 26, 1948. This was probably on a fantrip.

CTA 6163 is at Lake and Austin in the early 1950s. The Park Theater has already been closed, which would probably date this to circa 1952-54. (Walter Hulseweder Photo)

Lehigh Valley Transit car 702 is part of a three-car fantrip circa 1950 or 51 at stop #96 in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. This was in the waning days of the Liberty Bell Limited interurban between Allentown and Norristown. The “Bell” stopped running on the Philadelphia & Western’s Norristown High-Speed Line in 1949.

CTA salt spreader AA-105 (ex-2854) at the North Avenue car barn in February 1952. Don’s Rail Photos: “2854 was built by South Chicago City Ry in 1907 as SCCRy 340. It was rebuilt in 1907 and became C&SCRy 839 in 1908. It was renumbered 2854 in 1913 and became CSL 2854 in 1914. It was later converted as a salt car and renumbered AA105 in 1948. It was retired on February 17, 1954.”

CTA Pullmans 482, 584, and 518 on the scrap line at South Shops in March 1955. (Walter Hulseweder Photo)

CSL R-202 was a single-truck sand car. It is seen here on February 20, 1943.

CSL 4000 was a 1920s experiment in articulation that did not work out. It is seen here on the scrap track in the early 1940s.

With gas and tire rationing during World War II, CSL 2840, which had been in storage for ten years, was put back into service. Here, we see it on September 13, 1942.

CSL 2779 at South Shops on October 23, 1938. On this day, the Surface Lines held a fantrip that helped garner new members to the Central Electric Railfans’ Association, which was just getting started. (LaMar M. Kelley Photo)

Chicago Aurora & Elgin 407 and 432 in Forest Park in April 1955.

CA&E 413 at Wheaton on July 26, 1942.

South Shore Line cars 109, 39, 353, and 103 are on west Chicago Avenue at Northcote Avenue in East Chicago, Indiana on July 16, 1956. Not long after this, street running in East Chicago came to an end, as the South Shore began using a new bypass route parallel to the Indiana Toll Road. (James C. Barrick Photo)

South Shore Line “Little Joe” freight loco 803, with a train of 25 cars, is in the 1100 block of west Chicago in East Chicago on July 9, 1956. (James C. Barrick Photo)

South Shore Line cars 107, 37, 27, and 5 are on east Chicago Avenue at Whiteoak Avenue in East Chicago on July 16, 1956. (James C. Barrick Photo)

CRT 294 is signed as a Kenwood Local on July 21, 1934.

CTA 4109 at Madison and Austin in August 1948.

CTA 4383, I would assume, is turning from Clark onto westbound Devon as it is to run on Route 49 – Western.

CTA Sedan 6317 is running on Route 4 – Cottage Grove in the south Loop.

CSL Birney car 2000 in 1927.

CRT 1048 is a Jackson Park Local on July 21, 1934.

CRT 1763 is at Cermak Road on September 19, 1934.

CRT 337 at Indiana Avenue in September 1936.

Queensboro Bridge car 534 on January 16, 1949.

North Shore Line 719 is northbound on the Loop “L” at Adams and Wabash in June 1940.

North Shore Line car 181 in Winnetka.

North Shore Line car 409 at the Milwaukee terminal yard in February 1952. (Donald Ross Photo) Don Ross adds, “North Shore 409 at the Milwaukee station yard is interesting. That car had no smoking area and it was completely open. We used that car for our ERA meetings and the North Shore people helped to make sure it was set up.”

North Shore Line cars 720 and 747 in Milwaukee on October 12, 1941.

North Shore Line car 725 in Milwaukee in June 1940.

North Shore Line 170 at the Highwood Shops on July 5, 1949.

North Shore Line 250 in Wilmette on July 11, 1939.

CSL 3210 on the 51st-55th route, probably in the late 1930s.

North Shore Line Electroliner 803-804, which was new at the time, on a February 8, 1941 fantrip, making a photo stop at South Upton Junction.

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The North Shore Line In Milwaukee – Then and Now

October 28, 2017November 8, 2017David Sadowski 9 Comments

1A NSL 748 sb. on 6th St. Viaduct at Canal St. 8-12-51 Don Ross.

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by guest contributor Larry Sakar, author of Speedrail: Milwaukee’s Last Rapid Transit? (published in 1991 by Interurbans Press). We thank Larry, Chris Barney, and Don Ross for sharing their information with our readers.

January 21 of 2018 marks the sad 55th anniversary of the end of the North Shore Line. I was 12 years old when the line was abandoned and neither rode nor saw it in operation as I grew up on Milwaukee’s northwest side nowhere near the NSL. But as a traction fan it is one of my favorites.

Here is a group of photos of the North Shore Line in service mostly in the city of Milwaukee. Each “Then” photo will be followed by one or more photos showing that same location in 2017. In a few cases the only thing changed is that the North Shore Line is missing. In others, not even the abandoned right-of-way remains. “Then ” pictures were taken by the photographers credited. All present day photos were taken by my friend and colleague, Chris Barney.

There are 36 pictures total. One original “Then” for each location and several views of how that location looks today. In some cases just one “Now” shot in others-more.

There wasn’t room to put in details about the site of the Harrison St. shops (5th St & Harrison Ave.). After being vacant since the former shops building was torn down around 1968, a private school bought the entire property and began building a charter school along the west side of the property extending all the way to the southeast corner of 6th & Harrison. The school will open for students next Fall (2018).

Chris Barney took every one of the present day photos and did an excellent job of matching them to the “Then” shots.

There are about 3 or 4 pics that did not scan well. #’s 7B & 7C are light. Both are scans of photocopies. They are from a microfilm that Milwaukee Public Library received in 1995. One day out of the blue the librarian who was then in charge of the Local History room called me. They had received this microfilm (roll film) entitled, “Subways Along Milwaukee Rapid Transit Lines.” I couldn’t understand what that could be since there was only one subway which never got any further than about a half block east of 8th & Hibernia Sts. As it turned out “subways” was a term for the bridges the Rapid Transit Lines crossed at streets. The purpose seemed to be to determine the clearance height that could be posted on the bridge but if that is so why were shots included at 16th, 27th & 35th Sts. and other locations where the Rapid Transit passed under the road? You wouldn’t need any clearance signs there. The Port Washington, MRK and Local Rapid Transit Lines of TM and the North Shore as far as College Ave. were all included. I copied almost every image on the film.

At the time I was part of TMER&THS The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transit Historical Society. I obtained permission to have the film copied for them. It came out bad. It had an old silver negative which did not copy well. I returned the film to MPL and kind of forgot about it. A few years sgo I asked about it and nobody knew anything about it. It just vanished without ever being cataloged into the MPL collection and no one there now was there then. What TMER&THS did with their copy I do not know. I left the organization 14 years ago.

I hope you’ll like Chris’ and my efforts. The pictures are arranged geographically from downtown Milwaukee to Howell & Rawson Aves. in the city of Oak Creek. Oak Creek is still Milwaukee county, so when we say “in Milwaukee” we mean Milwaukee County. Another thing I did not point out. The photos of the 6th St. cut show a tall, round building in some. That is the old Town of Lake water tower which is no longer a water tower. It’s a south side landmark on 6th & Norwich. If you have CERA Bulletin 107 – “Route of the Electroliners,” look on page 47. You’ll see a picture of the 1939 CERA fan trip going across the Lakeside Belt Line bridge above the 6th St. cut and at the bottom a northbound NSL train passing under Norwich Ave. The water tower is prominent in the picture. The Town of Lake was annexed by and became part of the city of Milwaukee in 1955.

PS- No doubt you’ve seen many photos of the Milwaukee North Shore station on 6th & Michigan Sts. In nearly every shot looking north you see a tall building looming up in the left corner of the photo. The building has a round sort of structure in the center of its roof which most people assume is either a radio or TV antenna. That is the Wisconsin Tower building on the northwest corner of N. 6th St. and W. Wisconsin Ave. It used to be an office building but it was converted to condos about 10 years ago. The item on the top of the 20 story tower? Believe it or not it is a mooring mast for dirigibles like the Hindenburg which tells you the building was built in the 1930’s. The mast was never used. The other tall building seen in many NSL Milwaukee terminal photos is what used to be the Schroeder Hotel. It the ’70’s it became the Marc Plaza hotel named for its owner Greek millionaire Ben Marcus. This guy owned everything from theatres to the local Big Boy Restaurant chain. I think the hotel was sold when Marcus died. Today it is the Hilton City Centre.

Thanks to Don Ross for allowing the use of his photographs.

-Larry Sakar

1B The 6th St. Viaduct in 1989. NSL rails still there. C.N.Barney

1C Looking north at 6th & Canal Sts on 10-18-17. The viaduct Was torn down in 2001 and replaced by 2 bridges which meet at street level at Canal St.

1D Looking slightly further north toward downtown Milwaukee. The tall building in the left background is the 20 story former Greyhound building on 7th & Wisconsin. C.N.Barney

1E Bridge #2 looking south at 6th & Canal Sts. 10-18-17 C.N.Barney

2A NSL 755 & 3 others going from 5th to 6th St. near Scott St. Bob Genack

2B When the NSL was abandoned this part of the p.r.o.w. was made into S. Baraga St., which takes cars to the I-94 on-ramp at S. 5th St. & W. Greenfield Ave. Everything in the left side of the picture was torn down for The I-94 freeway. 10-18-17 C.N.Barney

3A NSL 738 sb. At 5th & Mitchell Sts. Passing Notre Dame High School & St. Stanislaus Catholic Church. Frank Butts photo from the Don Ross collection.

3B The same location on 10-17-18. Only the North Shore Line is gone. C.N.Barney

4A NSL 750 & 251 at 5th & Chase in 1955. Don Ross

4B 5th & Chase on 9-22-17. C.N.Barney

5A Electroliner sb. at Harrison St. Bob Genack

5B View lkg. North toward Harrison Ave. Note same houses in right background as previous photo. 9-15-17 C.N.Barney

6A TM 878 nb. On Rt. 16 and NSL Birney at 6th & Oklahoma. Rt. 16 converted to buses in June 1947. Bob Genack

6B NSL city car 357 waits to head back to DT Milwaukee as car 704 leads a 6 car train also headed for downtown in 1948. Note streetcar tracks still in 6th St and Transport Co. buses at left. Don Ross collection

6C View of aband. NSL r.o.w. at 6th & Oklahoma 10-22-16 C.N.Barney

7A NSL 741 crossing Milwaukee Road tracks at 6th & Holt. 1941 Don Ross

7B Looking north toward bridge crossing Milwaukee Road at top (Holt Ave.) City of Milwaukee Engineers Dept. photo

7C Tracks descending into 6th St. cut at Howard Ave. 11-3-37 City of Milwaukee Engineers Dept.

7D Holt Ave crossing on 9-22-17. Holt Ave. connected to Morgan Ave. west of 6th St. post NSL abandonment (1-20-63) in 1967-68. The grade of 6th & Holt was lowered and a bridge over those streets was constructed. What little remains of the abandoned NSL r.o.w. at this location can be seen in the trees in the background. C.N.Barney

7E Another view of 6th & Holt. On and off ramps to I-94 out of picture at right. Cars are parked in the MCTS (Milwaukee County Transit System) Rt. 40 Freeway Flyer park ‘n’ ride lot. C.N.Barney 9-22-17

8A NSL 766 sb. at Norwich Ave. 10-2-49 Don Ross

8B The 6th St. cut served as a reminder of the NSL until May of 1988 when it was filled-in. We are looking south beneath the Norwich Ave. bridge on May 14, 1988. C.N.Barney

8C The cut looking south from atop the Norwich Ave. bridge. With no drainage or track ballast the cut would fill with water when it rained. C.N.Barney on 5-14-88

8D Looking north in the cut we see the Norwich Ave. underpass. The cut ended very abruptly at this point after the cut from Howard Ave. north was filled in some years earlier. Note Town of Lake water tower atop embankment at left.

8E NSL 706 heads south passing under the TM Lakeside Belt Line bridge while a two-car CERA Fan trip (using two TM 1100-series cars) makes a photo stop. This 1939 Fan trip, and one in 1948 where car 1122 backed down the Belt Line a short distance from Greenwood Jct. are the only known passenger operations over this line.

8F Abutments from the TM Lakeside Belt Line bridge near W. Waterford Ave. could still be seen in 1988. Here we see two of the piers that held legs of the bridge. C.N.Barney on 5-14-88

8G On May 14th, 1988 the cut was filled in and bridge at Norwich Ave. removed. View looks south from Howard Ave.

8H The 6th St. cut is gone without a trace as we see in this view looking west along the former TM Lakeside Belt Line route, south of Howard Ave. Garden plots are now sold and one can garden atop the grave of the NSL. C.N.Barney 9-22-17

8I Looking north on S. 6th St. between Howard and W. Warnimont Aves. C.N. Barney 9-22-17

8J Looking south at the same location as previous. The fence at right was built by the NSL and is all that remains to remind us that it was once there. 9-22-17 C.N. Barney

9A NSL 749 et al near Bolivar Ave. in “North Shore weather” 1955. Today this is where I-94 crosses the abandoned r.o.w. From this point south the r.o.w. embankment was removed and parts of it have now been built on. Don Ross

9B The literal ”end” of the abandoned r.o.w. in Milwaukee is at Plainfield Ave. C.N.Barney 9-15-17

10A Two NSL Silverliners and other cars are southbound at College Ave. Portions of the abandoned r.o.w. were purchased for the south campus of the Milwaukee Area Technical College Oak Creek campus in the 1970s. Bob Genack

10B No trace of the College Ave. bridge or r.o.w. remains in 2017. Looking east on College Ave, the NSL crossed under College where the white building in the left background stands. March, 1988 C.N. Barney

11A A 2 car train of Silverliners heads northwest toward Milwaukee beneath the Howell & Rawson Ave. bridges in 1955. Don Ross

11B In 2017 there is virtually no trace of the North Shore at the intersection of Howell & Rawson Avenues as seen in this view also looking northwest. The bridges were removed in 1967 and the streets were rebuilt. C.N.Barney

Don Ross just sent me these Milwaukee streetcar clippings. Sure brings back memories.

I don’t know who did the captioning for the Milwaukee Journal but some of those Milwaukee streetcar pictures were way off. The one from above of a car coming around a curve is in the Calvary Cemetery cut and the car is approaching the stop at what was then Hawley Rd. It is not in Wauwatosa. The shot of the cars lines up at the “Stadium stop” Is nowhere near Fairview Ave which ended at 60th St. It is on the private right-of-way going north toward Wells Street parallel to N. 52nd St. on the West Allis branch of Rt. 10. Cars turned north at the east end of the Calvary Cemetery cut while interurbans continued east to downtown. The shot that says the streetcar is nearing 9th Street is wrong. 9th Street is behind the photographer. Though you only see a fragment of it to the right of the streetcar that is Central Library’s 1957 addition which is called the annex. The car is almost at 8th St. Today the Milwaukee Public Museum would be on the left.

The viaduct stood for 2 years after streetcar service ended. The clever Transport Company donated it to the city. The powers that be fought over it trying to decide if they should attempt to convert it into a road, or maybe a bridge only for buses. Finally, they decided to just dismantle it since it was never a thru street to begin with. From the lakefront Wells goes west to just past 37th St. and dead-ends. It picks up again on the other side of the valley near 44th St and continues west to 68th. The Harwood Ave. station building was used first as an insurance company office, and later on as the sales office for a lot selling Christmas trees. TWERHS was supposedly going to save it but they didn’t. I remember it very well. It had a cement floor and at the back of the building there was a counter where you could buy candy, gum cigarettes, cigars, newspapers and weekly passes and ticket strips. My grandmother called the fare tickets “Car checks”. A week or two after streetcars ended we were going downtown again and she took a ticket out of her purse. I said, “Are we going to ride the streetcar again?” She said, No, there are no more streetcars. I said, “But how can that be? You still have car checks.” Of course she patiently explained that they could be used on the bus as well.

My grandfather worked at the original Harley-Davidson Plant across the Milwaukee Road tracks from Cold Spring shops. The only time I ever rode the Rt. 11 Vliet Street line was when my grandmother and I took it there and walked over from Vliet St. to the employee parking lot. In those days (ca. 1956) people seldom locked their cars. We waited for him to come out of work and “surprised.” Sure, he probably knew in advance. One time he did show my brother and I around the plant. He had to go up to the office on a top floor to collect his pay check. He took me to a window and said, “You see those buildings down there? That’s where they fix the streetcars.” I didn’t see any streetcars so I didn’t believe him.

The Milwaukee Road mainline from the Twin Cities ran right past the Harwood station and I Remember seeing the Hiawatha a couple of times. In 1965 my grandmother, mother and I rode it from Chicago to Milwaukee and sat in the Super Dome. I remember when we left Chicago and started going beneath those signal bridges around Western Avenue I ducked. Later on when Amtrak started up I rode the full length and half length GM and Burlington Dome cars they used on the Empire Builder. The present day Superliner lounge cars do not compare with the dome cars.

-Larry

Recent Finds

Illinois Terminal 277 in Edwardsville. Don’s Ril Photos: “277 was built by St Louis Car in 1913, #966. It was rebuilt in October 1951 with new seats and other modernized features. It was sold to the Illinois Railway Museum on March 9, 1956.” (Photo by Ward)

Boston double-end PCC 3338 on the Beacon Street line in February 1960. Don’s Rail Photos: “3338 was built by Pullman-Standard in 1945, #W6699, as DR&T 603. It was sold as MTA 3338 in 1959 and acquired by Trolley Inc in 1983. It was purchased by Seashore Trolley Museum in 1994.”

Chicago & West Towns 105 at the Riverside car barn in the 1930s. This car was built by McGuire-Cummings in 1915.

Portland Railway Light & Power “Master Unit” 810 in Portland, Oregon on July 3, 1948.

MBTA ex-Dallas “Texas Ranger” 3336 at Capen Street on the Ashmont-Mattapan “high speed trolley” on March 9, 1969. (Photo by McMurdo)

A classic view of Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee 714 on the Skokie Valley Route. Don’s Rail Photos: “714 was built by Cincinnati Car Co in 1926, #2890. It was modernized in 1939 and preserved in 1963 by the Illinois Railway Museum.” (James C. Barrick Photo)

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Recent Finds, 10-14-2017

October 14, 2017October 27, 2017David Sadowski 19 Comments

You would be forgiven if you think this is CTA red Pullman 144 heading north on Wentworth Avenue at Cermak Road in Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood. But it is actually car 225 with its number hidden by a piece of red oilcloth. This was a fantrip organized by the late Maury Klebolt in 1955. He had promised the fans that car 144 would be used. Car 225 was built in 1908 and was sold to Seashore Trolley Museum in 1957. I previously wrote a post about this fantrip in 2013.

This close-up of the previous picture shows how the “144” is on an oilcloth patch over the actual number 225.

Today, we are featuring many rare transit photographs that we recently collected. Most are from the Chicagoland area, but some are from Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

What they all have in common is I think they are interesting. I hope that you will agree.

October 17 is the 74th anniversary of the opening of Chicago’s first subway. We have included a few subway pictures to help commemorate that historic event.

-David Sadowski

PS- I will be making a personal appearance at 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at The Museums at Lisle Station Park in Lisle, IL. This presentation is for my new book Chicago Trolleys, from Arcadia Publishing. You can purchase an autographed copy via our Online Store. We look forward to seeing you there.

Recent Finds

This is a very unusual picture. At first, I thought it might show the ramp at Sacramento on the Garfield Park “L”, where the line descended to temporary trackage in Van Buren Street. Then, I noticed that this is single track. This makes it the loop at the west end of the line at DesPlaines Avenue, as it was configured in 1953 to allow the CA&E (not seen here) to pass underneath. There are lots of pictures showing this ramp taken from the ground. But to take this picture, the photographer either had to be in another railcar, or was standing on the walkway. At left, you can see the Altenhiem building, described in the next picture. The DesPlaines Avenue yard was reconfigured again in 1959 and this ramp was eliminated. We previously posted another picture of this crossover here.

Altenhiem, described here as an “old people’s home,” is still in business today.

Once CA&E trains were cut back to Forest Park in September 1953, joint timetables were issued for the benefit of passengers who wanted to continue to the Loop. These schedules were changed several times over the nearly four years before the CA&E abandoned passenger service. This is the 14th, and perhaps last such timetable. Over time, I assume there were fewer CA&E trains as ridership was declining. We previously posted timetable #7 here.

WORK ON CHICAGO’S SUBWAY STARTED
Chicago, Ill.: Above photo shows crowd on North State Street at Chicago Avenue during ceremonies marking the start of work on the new subway, which will run under State Street. Mayor Edward Kelly and Secy. of the Interior Harold Ickes used pneumatic spades to start the project. (Acme Press Photo, December 17, 1938)

STREET CARS CRASH IN TUNNEL; 7 INJURED
Chicago – Its brakes failing to hold as it attempted up-grade run in Chicago street car tunnel, trolley at left slid backward down incline, crashed into front end of following car. Seven passengers were taken to hospital, 100 others shaken up. (Acme Press Photo, November 6, 1941)

AT LAST — THE CHICAGO SUBWAY
All-steel cars from the elevated lines enter the tubes on the north side near Armitage and Sheffield Avenues, about 2 1/2 miles north of the Loop. Overhead is the existing elevated structure still used by local trains. Hard rubber plates have been placed between the ties and the steel rails to cushion the subway ride. (Acme Press Photo, October 21, 1943)

NO AN ART GALLERY–BUT PART OF MOSCOW’S SUBWAY LINE
Moscow, Russia– Beautiful inverted bowls throw light to the paneled ceiling of this archway part of the lighting system of the Sokolniki station of Moscow’s new subway. Indirect light is used in many parts of the system. The subway, thrown open to the public amidst scenes of great jubilation, is called the “Metro.” All Moscow went joy riding on opening day. (Acme Press Photo, May 17, 1935) What interested me about his photo was how the general configuration looks a lot like the Chicago subway, which was built a few years later. Is it possible that the design was influenced by Moscow’s?

The interior of DC Transit car 766, during an October 8, 1961 fantrip just a few months before Washington’s streetcar system was abandoned. This car is now preserved at the National Capital Trolley Museum as Capital Traction Company 27 (its original umber). We have an excellent CD featuring audio recordings of 766 in operation in Washington, DC in our Online Store.

This picture was taken on the Wells leg of Chicago’s Loop on April 16, 1926. If this is Quincy and Wells, the scaffolding at left may be related to work being done on the nearby Wells Street Terminal, which started at this time. The terminal got a new facade and was expanded, reopening on August 27, 1927.

This picture shows the old Wells Street bridge, carrying the “L” across the Chicago River as it heads north-south in the early 1900s.

This is Racine Avenue on the Metropolitan “L” main line. The autos below the “L” would suggest this picture was taken in the 1940s.

“L” trains at the north State Street subway portal, probably in the 1940s.

The view looking north from the Howard “L” station. We ran a very similar picture to this in a previous post Chicago Rapid Transit Photos, Part Eight (November 16, 2016), where George Trapp suggested in was taken in the late 1920s or 1930s. This photo is dated December 17, 1930.

Michael Franklin has identified this picture as showing the Armour station on the Stock Yards branch. He notes, “(the) clue was a station on one side but not one on the other.” See below for another view of the same station.

http://www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/images/StockYards/cta2906%40armour.jpg

The above image is from Graham Garfield’s excellent web site, and looks to the northeast. The original www.chicago-l.org caption reads:

Looking north on September 28, 1957, ex-Metropolitan Elevated car 2906 has left Armour station (seen at right) and it about to rejoin the Stock Yards main line to head east to its terminal at Indiana. The Sock Yards branch is only a week away from abandonment at this time. (Photo from the IRM Collection, courtesy of Peter Vesic)

This picture was taken on the Evanston branch of the “L”, and the wooden “L” car is signed “Howard Only,” which suggests this was taken during the CTA era. Previously, all Evanston trains continued south into the city. The nearby curve would indicate that this picture was taken just north of Howard, and may show the viaduct where the line crossed Chicago Avenue, which is a continuation of Clark Street.

This picture is identified as showing Chicago streetcar conductors and motormen, and probably dates to the early 1900s.

Here, we have a westbound train of wooden Met cars at Laramie on the old Garfield Park line. This was replaced by the Congress line in 1958.

Chicago Surface Lines 2779 at Cicero and Montrose in 1934. This was the north end of the Cicero Avenue line. This car is part of a series known as “Robertson Rebuilds,” and was built by St. Louis Car Co. in 1903. (Edward Frank, Jr. Photo)

CSL 970 on Waveland between Broadway and Halsted in 1936. This was the north end of the Halsted line. 970 was part of a series known as the “little” Pullmans, since they were slightly shorter than cars 101-750. It was built in 1910. (Edward Frank, Jr. Photo)

CSL experimental pre-PCC car 7001 is shown heading south on Clark Street at North Avenue, across the street from the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). This picture was probably taken in the 1930s. 7001 went into service in 1934 and was repainted in 1941 before being retired around 1944. (Edward Frank, Jr. Photo)

The view looking east at Lake Street and Ridgeland, when the Lake Street “L” ran on the ground. Many years ago, the Rapid Transit Company put advertisements on the steps leading into such ground-level stations. The “L” was relocated onto the nearby C&NW embankment in 1962. This picture may be circa 1930.

The north end of the Merchandise Mart “L” station. This has since been rebuilt and the curved area of the platform has been eliminated.

We are looking west along Harrison at Wabash on November 12, 1928. In 2003, the Chicago Transit Authority straightened out this jog with a section of new “L” structure, occupying the area where the building at left once was.

Oakton Street in Skokie on December 11, 1931. The tracks with overhead wire were used by the North Shore Line and the Chicago Rapid Transit Company’s Niles Center branch. Both were running on the NSL’s Skokie Valley Route, built in 1925. The other set of tracks belong to the Chicago & North Western and were used for freight.

CSL 2601 was a Robertson Rebuild car built in 1901 by St. Louis Car Company. In this wintry scene, it is signed for the 111th Street route, presumably in the 1940s. (Joe L. Diaz Photo)

Here is an unusual view. This shows the ramp taking the Garfield Park “L” down to grade level between Cicero Avenue and Laramie. It must be an early picture, since the area around the “L” seems largely unbuilt. The Laramie Yard would be to the right just out of view. This “L” was torn down shortly after the CTA opened the Congress line in 1958.

The old Cermak Road station on the south Side “L”. Note there are three tracks here. This station was closed in 1977 and removed. A new station replaced it in 2015.

Here. a wooden “L” car train descends the ramp near Laramie on the Lake Street “L”. This must be an early photo, as it looks like Lake Street is unpaved. Streetcar service was extended west to Harlem Avenue here by the Cicero & Proviso in 1891. Chicago Railways took over the city portion in 1910. Service west of Austin Boulevard was provided by the West Towns Railways.

Wooden gate car 3105 and train in the Loop. This was originally built for the Lake Street “L”. Don’s Rail Photos says, “3103 thru 3118 were built by McGuire-Cummings in 1893 as LSERR 103 thru 118. In 1913 they were renumbered 3103 thru 3118 and became CRT 3103 thru 3118 in 1923.”

The view looking west along the Douglas Park “L” at 49th Avenue in Cicero on February 4, 1944. The station we see in the background is 50th Avenue. After it closed in 1978, this station was moved to the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, where it is used to board the museum’s fleet of retired “L” cars.

Here, we are looking south from Garfield (55th Street) on the South Side “L”.

61st Street on the South Side “L”, looking north on November 13, 1944.

Photos of the old Humboldt Park “L” branch are quite rare. This photo looks west from Western Avenue on January 26, 1931. This branch closed in 1952, although portions of the structure remained into the early 1960s.

This picture looks south from Randolph and Wells on the Loop “L”. The date is not known, but the construction of the building at right may provide a clue. Andre Kristopans writes, “The overhead shot on Wells showing platform construction is early 20’s, when platforms were extended to accommodate longer trains. For instance Randolph/Wells and Madison/Wells were once separate platforms, after the early 20’s they were a continuous platform. Also at that time, LaSalle/Van Buren and State/Van Buren were connected and the separate station at Dearborn/Van Buren became an auxiliary entrance to State, until a building next to it blew up in the very early 60’s and destroyed the Outer Loop side.”

North Shore Line 156 and several others at Waukegan in December 1962. Since there are about a dozen cars visible, they are being stored on a siding which you will note is outside the area of the catenary. (George Niles, Jr. Photo)

This shows TMER&T 1121 running on a 1949 fantrip on the North Shore Line at the Kenosha station. We ran a similar picture in our previous post Traction in Milwaukee (September 16, 2015).

Speedrail car 60 at the Waukesha Quarry, date unknown but circa 1949-51.

Larry Sakar writes:

The photo of Speedrail car 60 in your latest postings at the Waukesha Gravel pit was taken on 10-16-49. The occasion was the inaugural fan trip using a 60-series curved side car. It was sponsored by the short lived Milwaukee Division of the Electric Railroaders Association and was run by Milwaukeean James P. Harper who authored CERA Bulletin 97, “The Electric Railways of Wisconsin” published in 1952.

At the start of the private right-of-way at 8th St., the motors on the rear truck began having problems. At Waukesha, the car pulled onto one of the 2 side tracks leading back into the gravel pit. George Krambles accessed the rear trucks via a panel in the floor and disconnected the motor leads to the troublesome rear trucks. From that point forward the car ran on only 2 motors for the remainder of the fan trip. Car 65 had been the car originally intended to do the trip, but it was down with mechanical problems of its own. This caused the trip to be postponed for a week and the substitution of car 60.

When the car pulled into gravel pit siding one of the fans on board remarked, “Wow, look at this. They’ve got it in the scrap line already!”.

In addition to George Krambles, Al Kalmbach was on the trip, as was well-known railfan and photographer Barney Neuberger. He can be seen siting in about the 4th row of the car on the left side wearing a pork pie hat.

I’ve attached a few items related to that fan trip including a photo of Jay Maeder walking alongside car 60. This was taken at the first photo stop which was 44th St. where Milwaukee County Stadium would be built starting a year later. Car 60 was doing a photo run-by by backing down the line. The fans formed a photo line facing the car.

Philadelphia Stories

Philadelphia Peter Witt 8534 in July 1996. Don’s Rail Photos: “8534 was built by Brill Car in 1926, #22353.” It is part of the Electric City Trolley Museum collection in Scranton, PA. Here, it is shown in Philadelphia, during the time it was leased to SEPTA for trolley tours.

SEPTA 2750 and 8534 on a fantrip in August 1996. Apparently 8534 has broken down and is being towed.

SEPTA 2785 in November 2002.

SEPTA 2750 and 8534 in August 1996.

Three generations of Philadelphia streetcars in May 1999.

2785 in November 2002.

SEPTA 2785 in November 2002, with a commuter train nearby. Kenneth Achtert writes, “The shot of SEPTA #2785 with the commuter train that you presumed to be in Chestnut Hill is actually approaching 11th and Susquehanna,southbound, a cut-back location for which the car is signed in the picture. The commuter train would be inbound toward Center City.”

SEPTA 2785 in November 2002.

SEPTA PCC 2785 on the truncated route 23 in November 2002.

8534 in August 1996. Kenneth Achtert: “The view of #8534 being “manually switched” three photos later shows 8534 being coupled to its leader (2750) after apparently becoming disabled. Several of your other photos show the subsequent towing operation.”

The fantrip train is having trouble clearing this auto in August 1996.

Looks like an attempt was made to move the offending car out of the way. August 1996.

Recent Correspondence

Kenneth Gear writes:

Look who is in the new HISTORIC RAIL & ROADS catalog!

Thanks!

In case you missed it, here is Kenneth Gear’s review of the book:

I just finished reading your book and I enjoyed it very much. Good, clear, concise, and informative writing.

I must compliment you on the choice and presentation of the photographs. It is obvious that you spent much time and effort to present these wonderful photos as perfectly restored as possible.

So many times the authors of books that are primarily “picture books” seem to have a complete disregard for the condition of the photos reproduced. I’ve often seen photos that are yellowed with age, water stained, ripped, folded, and scratched. Other times a book might contain photos that are not properly exposed, are crooked, out of focus, or the composition could have been easily corrected with a little cropping.

The photos in your book are absolutely fantastic! They are pristine, sharp, and have absolutely no blemishes at all. You also packed a lot of information into the captions as well. It’s a fine book and you should be proud, as I’m sure you are, to have your name on the cover.

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Milwaukee Rapid Transit

September 26, 2017May 2, 2024David Sadowski 24 Comments

SR 60 laying over @ Waukesha loop Spring, 1950

With construction well underway on the new Milwaukee streetcar, and Milwaukee Transit Day (October 7th) fast approaching at the Illinois Railway Museum, this seems like an opportune time for guest contributor Larry Sakar to share more of his research with us.

Larry is the author of Speedrail: Milwaukee’s Last Rapid Transit? We thank him for his generosity in sharing these pictures and information with our readers.

-David Sadowski

PS- FYI, all copies of Chicago Trolleys that were purchased during the pre-order have been mailed. Yesterday was the official release date for the book, and it is now in stock and autographed copies are available for immediate shipment. We hope that you will enjoy this new work (more information at the end of this post).

Larry Sakar writes:

The Trolley Dodger is getting a lot of notice. A friend of mine who does not have a computer has heard about it, most likely from Bill Shapotkin or Andre Kristopans. When something is well done, people notice, so I’m not surprised.

I promised you some pictures of the former TM station in Kenosha at 8th Ave. & 55th St. These 2 photos were taken by Ray DeGroote in September 1963 probably just days before the building was torn down. The passageway beneath the portico was where TM interurbans pulled in. They then curved to the right in the photo, on their way back to Milwaukee crossed Sheridan Rd. on the long elevated trestle, and then came parallel to the C&NW RR’s mainline between Chicago & Milwaukee. From around 1952 or ’53 to the end in Sept.’63 the former waiting room was a pizza restaurant – Vena’s Pizzeria.

Former TM Kenosha station 9-63 Ray DeGroote

Former TM Kenosha Station 9-63 Ray DeGroote note freight tracks.

When Speedrail acquired the 6-60 series curved side lightweight cars from Shaker Heights Rapid Transit in October 1949, they were shipped to Milwaukee via the Nickel Plate Road (CMSTP&STL) to Chicago, where the NKP flat cars were interchanged with the Milwaukee Road. The MILW brought them to The Transport Co.’s. Cold Spring shops where they were unloaded and given a thorough inspection. First to arrive was car 65 on 10-6-49. Shaker Heights had painted it in an experimental green and yellow paint scheme to improve visibility at grade crossings. Sometime between 10-7-49 and 10-23-49 someone repainted the front end of car 65 in an obvious effort to emulate the “Liberty Bell Limited” design on the LVT 1000 series high speed cars. No one knows who did it or when. First we see 65 coming down the Michigan St. hill eastbound on the shakedown runs over both the Waukesha & Hales Corners lines on 10-7-49. In the second shot, note that the front has been repainted white with the quasi-LVT design and air horns placed where they are on an LVT 1000 series car. The second shot is in the 25th St. curve next to the tanks of the Milwaukee Gas Light Co. Today I-94 the East-West Freeway occupies the r.o.w.

SHRT60 arriving from Cleveland 10-49 Lew Martin

SR 65 @ 6th & Michigan on 10-7-49 shakedown trip.

SR 65 @ 25th St, curve 10-23-49

Harper SR fan trip 10-49 schedule

I believe car 60 was the last to arrive from Shaker Heights. First we see it on the Milwaukee Division ERA fan trip of 10-16-49 crossing Brookdale Dr. In 2016 my friend and colleague Chris Barney took these 2 photos of Brookdale Dr. as it looks today.

SR 60 inaugural fan trip Brookdale 10-16-49

Brookdale Dr xing on H.C. line in 2016 C.N.Barney

Lots of absolutely fantastic material in this collection I just inherited. Look at these 2 documents. Without saying a word, there’s a very clear picture of the way things were being run at Speedrail in April of 1950! Owing $8000+ to TMER&T was definitely not the way to go!

Collection Letter from TMER&T attys against MRT&S 4-5-50

Dunning letter to MRT&S from TMER&T re: overdue payments 3-8-50

Talk about valuable information, in this collection I just inherited was a list, no actually there were 2 lists. A railfan but not too likely the friend who gave me the collection walked down the scrap line out at the Waukesha gravel pit on March 1, 1952 and again two weeks later March 16, 1952. He wrote down the number of every car in the scrap line. This info is valuable because a year earlier the trustee sold 13 of the TM 1100 series heavy interurban cars to Afram Brothers Scrap Metal Co. in Milwaukee. Obviously, Speedrail was desperate for money so why not sell off what was no longer being used? $2,000 (approximate figure) went to pay for the transformation of LVT 1102 into Milwaukee Rapid Transit 66, the so-called, “last hope car.”

Notice, I did not say Speedrail 66. Legally, it was still The Milwaukee Rapid Transit & Speedrail Company but when Bruno V. Bitker took over as the court-appointed trustee, he ordered the Speedrail name painted out on the curved-side lightweight (60 series) car as well as removed from all timetables and tickets. He made it very clear that the Speedrail name immediately brought to mind the 9-2-50 fatal accident. That is also one of the reasons Jay Maeder was dismissed. From then on everything just said “Rapid Transit 234 W. Everett St.”

You may notice, by the way, that when I write the Speedrail corporate name I always capitalize “THE.” Maeder insisted on it because “The” in TMER&L was always capitalized and anything TM did was what he wanted to do as well. There is no better evidence of that than the first Speedrail timetable dated `10-16-49 which said “TM Speedrail”. Here are the covers of Speedrail’s very first and very last timetables, and for the Waukesha Transit Lines bus which replaced it, a fact you’ll notice they made sure to put on their timetable. Waukesha Transit Lines eventually became Wisconsin Coach Lines. They are still in business but are now part of the Coach USA system.

TM SR Timetable 10-16-49

Rapid Transit TT West Jct. 6-4-51

WTL Replacing the SR 7-1-51

WTL Bus schedule 7-1-51

Here are the pictures I took at both the TM and North Shore stations on 4-5-72. I mentioned in a previous post that for many years after the TM M-R-K – Milwaukee-Racine-Kenosha was abandoned in 1947 the freight tracks used by Motor Transport Co. were still embedded in pavement. Here they are on 4-5-72.

TM Kenosha Station looking north 4-5-72

Motor Transport Co. tracks TM Kenosha Sta. 4-5-72

The next 2 photos at the TM Kenosha station site show the point where the long elevated bridge over Sheridan Rd. began. The large building to the left was the Barr Furniture Co. which has since been torn down. The very last photo I just scanned shows the sign created by Kenosha radio broadcaster Lou Rugani to commemorate where TM’s Kenosha station used to stand at 8th Ave. & 55th St. Just one problem with the sign. The Don Ross photo on the sign shows the Racine, not the Kenosha station.

TM Kenosha Station next to Barr Furniture 4-5-72

Sign commemorating TM Kenosha station

From the TM station I walked out to the North Shore Line’s Kenosha station which is on 22nd Ave & 63rd St. if I recall correctly. I knew it was still standing but I didn’t expect it to be behind a stockade fence. I do not know why it was fenced off on 3 sides.

The first photo shows the northbound platform looking northeast. You can see the fence. The track area had been paved with asphalt but other than that the station appeared unchanged in the 9 years since abandonment.

NSL Kenosha Station 4-5-72 northbound platform

I then snapped a series of 3 pictures of the southbound platform starting at it’s north end, then the middle of it and last the south end of that southbound platform. All of that changed some years later when the station became a restaurant. They added a banquet room to the north end of the station which ruined its historic Arthur U. Gerber appearance. Then they extended the restaurant over the track area and removed the southbound platform entirely.

NSL Kenosha Station south end southbound platform 4-5-72

NSL Kenosha Station Southbound platform 4-5-72

NSL Kenosha Station 4-5-72 Southbound platform

The last NSL picture shows the abandoned NSL r.o.w. just north of Ryan Rd. I had just taken the picture when I noticed a large building in the distance. It turned out to be the Carrollville substation.

Abandoned NSL r.o.w. north of Ryan Road Carrollville substation distant 1971

Here is something I think you will enjoy. This picture appeared in a much smaller version in the Speedrail book. This is a much larger, more detailed print. These seats were installed by Shaker Heights when they acquired the curved side cars from Inter City Rapid Transit in 1940. They had purchased some of the very first Cincinnati curved side lightweights built from Kentucky Traction & Terminal but never placed them in service because their small motors made them unable to maintain the speed necessary for the 2 SHRT lines. They were kept on a storage track at Shaker’s Kingsbury Run shops and used for spare parts when the ICT cars arrived. That included these seats.

Interior SR 63

But there was one exception. Car 64 had green plush seats according to several people I spoke to who rode these cars on Speedrail. The Speedrail riders did not like these cars. They were glad Jay Maeder had saved the Waukesha line from the impending abandonment being sought by Northland-Greyhound but they wanted the TM 1100’s to remain in service.

Maeder became quite angry when he found out the Waukesha riders were complaining about the 60 series cars and he ran this ad in the Waukesha Freeman. Somebody should have told him you don’t bite the hand that feeds you. You never start off a communication with, “We all know…” Yes, he knew, and the railfans knew, but the average everyday rider thought these were new cars when they first saw them. One look at the interiors told them otherwise.

Maeder response to 60 series cars complaints

To give you an example of just how much the 60’s were disliked, the late Len Garver told me that one day he and his friend Jerry Fisher were riding a 60-series car to Waukesha. A lady getting off the car near Waukesha East Limits turned to the motorman and said, “Do all of these cars ride this way? I feel like I’ve just ridden over Niagara Falls in a barrel!”

Much of it had to do with car weight and height of the car above the rail. This photo from the collection of Herb Danneman illustrated the problem. Note the height of car 1138 at left with car 60 at right. This photo was taken on the Milwaukee Division ERA fan trip of 10-16-49 and is at 46th St.

TM 1138 & SR 60 meet @ 46thSt. 10-16-49. Herb Danneman coll.

Two of these pictures are ones I sent previously, but they were not the best quality. Two are ones you might never have seen before. One is pretty dramatic. Lew Martin took a picture as car 39 was rolling down the embankment of the r.o.w. after the 9-2-50 wreck. The other is of 1192 as it looked after the accident. Note how badly the front end was caved in. The photo was taken at the Waukesha Gravel pit. The car was towed out there once the investigation of the crash had been completed.

SR39 rolling off embankment 9-2-50 Lew Martin

SR 40 after push off embankment 9-2-50

SR 1192 at Wauk. Grvl pit after 9-50 wreck

Remains of SR 39 dumped off r.o.w. 9-2-50 (color)

The one picture of the Speedrail crash that I did have showed the wreck before the cars were rolled off the right-of-way. How long was it before the tracks were cleared? A few hours, perhaps?

I don’t recall any of the newspapers giving specifics as to how long it took to clear the wreck, much less to cut apart what was left of car 39 and all of car 40. I believe one account did say the tracks had been cleared by late afternoon which to me means about 4:00 or 5:00 pm. The biggest problem they had was trying to get the cars separated. Trip #5, the last one of the day with duplex 1184-85 hooked up to 1193, the rear car of the heavy duplex, attempted to pull them apart but couldn’t. A heavy duty National Guard wrecker was then brought in and it was able to do it. Ironic, isn’t it that when Hyman-Michaels was scrapping the cars at the gravel pit in 1952 they used 1184-85 as their office car. It’s the one with the sign saying attached to its front that said “No Trespassing. Property of Milwaukee Rapid Transit and Speed Rail Co.” Someone recently asked me why they separated the Speedrail name into two words. I guess only Hyman-Michaels Co. would have known.

Firemen trying to pry wrecked SR cars apart on 9-2-50 from MJ 9-3-50

I know they were serious about prosecuting anyone caught trespassing on the property. Al Buetschle, whom I mentioned in a recent post as the person who saved Milwaukee streetcar 978 went out to the gravel pit soon after scrapping began. He tried to get close enough to where the scrappers were working so he could get some good pictures. He tried hiding in the brush and weeds close to the tracks and they caught him. He was warned that if they ever caught him again he would be turned over to the Waukesha County Sheriff. After that, he discovered that walking up the C&NW RR tracks west from Springdale Rd. which were adjacent to the gravel pit was the “safe” way to gain entry without detection. The other was by going out there on Sundays. The scrappers did not work on Sundays and the place was pretty much deserted. It was on one of these “hunts” that he “saved” the roll sign from Car 66 as well as an Ohio Brass trolley retriever. The problem with the retriever was that it was rather cumbersome. He did not drive a car in 1952 so he had to take the replacement for Speedrail “Waukesha Transit Lines” bus to and from. He was afraid if the bus driver saw it he would report him so he hid the retriever under a log. Regrettably, it wasn’t there the next time he came back. When he moved to California in 1961 the roll sign found its way to someone else and from him to the person who owns it today. I have a color slide of it taken at a train show where it was on display back in the ’80’s or ’90’s.

Springdale Road. on Waukesha Line looking east in TM days Ed Wilson

Abandoned TM ROW Looking east to Springdale Rd. 4-14-71 LAS

We have a new TM/Speedrail mystery on our hands. This is a photo of a TM or Speedrail 1100 series car eastbound on the Waukesha line at Sunny Slope Rd. The date of the photo is unknown as is the photographer. My friend and colleague Chris Barney obtained this from the Waukesha Freeman newspaper. The car is headed east on the eastbound track but look at the car. It’s running backwards!

#1 – The “mystery photo.” A TM or Speedrail 1100 poss. 1142 is running backwards EB on the eastbound track at Sunny Slope Rd. J.G. Van Holten plant at right. Collection of C.N. Barney.

The streamlined modern type building to the right was the J.G. Van Holten Vinegar works along the westbound track. TM had a siding into the plant and delivered a brine car at least once a month. That continued into the Speedrail era. There were 2 crossover tracks both west of the crossing which the grainy quality of the photo makes impossible to see. That was where the Speedrail accident of 2-8-50 took place.

I’d like to ask my fellow TM fans for any information as to why a car would be running backwards. The switch into the plant was from the westbound track so even if the car had been switching a car in or out there would be no reason for it to be running backwards on the eastbound track.

Chris’ and my friend, Herb Danneman came up with what may be the explanation. On 2-29-52 Hyman-Michaels, the scrapper who dismantled Speedrail moved all of the cars in storage in Milwaukee to the Waukesha gravel pit for scrapping. We know for a fact that the cars operated in trains of 2 or 3 cars. TM 1142 which had been Speedrail’s freight motor from 12/50 to the end of service hauled a number of out of service 1100’s to the gravel pit. The “scrap trains” were operated westbound on the eastbound track as demonstrated in this photo by George Gloff. This is car 66 being towed by car 63. 1100’s could not couple onto curved side cars because of the difference in floor heights. That might be what’s going on here. It might have been easier just to run backwards to Milwaukee than wyeing at the gravel pit if they still could. We tried enlarging the photo to 8x`10 to see if the person standing on the rear platform is wearing a uniform which he would if this was some sort of unusual TM or Speedrail move but it only made him a shadow. We can’t tell.

The photo of 66 being towed is at Calhoun Rd. Some present-day photos at Sunny Slope and one I took there in 1971 are also included. J.G. Van Holten moved to Waterloo, Wisconsin in 1956 after a dispute with the then Town of New Berlin (now city). Seems the Van Holten company was disposing of its waste (they made both pickles and sauerkraut) in a retention pond west of the plant. That must have been a smell you’d never forget!

#2 – The Sunny Slope Rd. xing lkg. west in 5/71. Former J.G. Van Holten plant @ right. Note: power lines not in same place as #1.

#3 – Speedrail 1115 arr. @ Waukesha Gravel pit. C. N. Barney collection. Larry Sakar adds: “The car was on the 7/15/50 fan trip. The guys in the background were railfans who had come out on curved side car 60. They met 1115 at Waukesha loop. The fans returned on 1115 and 60 went into regular service for the return to Milwaukee. Each segment of the charter used a different car. The morning trip to Waukesha loop used lightweight duplex 31-32. Car 1115 had taken its place on the regular trip. 31-32 pulled into the loop behind 1115. 1115 obviously departed first though I’ve no idea how far ahead and the Milwaukee or intermediate stops crowd got 31-32. The afternoon trip to Hales Corners Hillcrest loop used curved side car 65 on the outbound trip and car 300 for the return. It was on that trip that the trolley pole rewired as they were crossing the Honey Creek Pkwy. bridge, hit the arm holding the trolley wire which jutted out from the right and bent like a pretzel. What to do? Somebody came up with the idea of turning the front trolley pole around and see if they could operate the car that way though obviously a lot slower than would otherwise have been the case. It worked. It would be the last successful fan trip on Speedrail. A month and a half later came the 9-2-50 disaster at Oklahoma Ave.”

#4 – SR 66 being towed to Wauk. Gravel Pit passing Kuney’s at Calhoun Rd. 2-29-52 George Gloff photo.

#5 – Calhoun Rd. xing lkg west. Part of Kuney’s bldg. at left. 2013 photo by C.N. Barney

#6 – Sunny Slope Rd. xing lkg west 2013. That’s me in the photo. C.N. Barney photo

#7 – Lkg. east from west of Sunny Slope Rd. xing 2013. C;N. Barney

#8 – Ex J.G. Van Holten plant hidden in the brush as seen from the U.P. RR (ex C&NW) r.o.w. 2013 C. N. Barney photo

#9 – Literal end of track on Lincoln Ave. (Waukesha East Limits), 9-26-52. Note track has been cut. John Schoenknecht collection.

#10 – Newspaper clipping showing 2-8-50 Speedrail accident at Sunny Slope Rd. Larry Sakar collection.

Have you ever studied a picture and not noticed something obvious? I was thinking of the “mystery” photo I just sent you and that’s when it hit me. This can’t be any kind of normal passenger run. Because the car is running backwards on the eastbound track the entry door is on the wrong side. How would they board or discharge passengers? The left side of the 1100’s didn’t have any doors!

If this car was heading back to 25th St. to pick up more 1100’s for transport to the Waukesha Gravel pit, you’d want it to be backwards so you could couple to another set of cars. Then you’d be position correctly for the reverse trip to Waukesha. Running backwards like that there was absolutely no place to turn the car around except West Junction loop. They’d have run backwards to the switch that took cars from the Waukesha to the Hales Corners line which was a short distance north of the West Jct. station, then switched to the Hales Corners line where they’d now be facing south, gone around the loop and then you’d be facing north frontwards). They could not have gone all the way to the Public Service Building. First, there was no way to turn a car around there and second by Feb. 29 of 1952 the rails had tar put over them and the trolley wire had been removed from the trainshed.

I think Herb Danneman was right. This is 2-29-52 and that is car 1142.

-Larry Sakar

Postscript

Scott Greig (see Comments section below) was wondering if there was any sort of listing of which Speedrail cars went to the Waukesha Gravel Pit for scrapping. He is in luck. Among the many great documents I found in that collection Herb Danneman so generously gave me were 2 lists of cars that were in the scrap line and elsewhere on the Speedrail property on March 1, 1952 and March 16, 1952. The list was written in pencil and hard to read so I typed it up and scanned in both lists

Thanks Scott, Charles and Robert for the great comments and superb information.

-Larry

Recent Finds

CTA PCC 7199, a product of the St. Louis Car Company, is eastbound on 120th near Halsted circa 1952-55. This was the south end of Route 36 – Broadway-State. (Eugene Van Dusen Photo)

CTA 6148, and “Odd 17” car, was built by the Surface Lines in 1919. Here we see it southbound, turning from Clark onto Halsted.

CTA 1750 heads west on Randolph Street, signed for Route 16 – Lake Street, circa 1952-54. In the background, we see the Sherman House Hotel, the old Greyhound Bus Terminal, and the Garrick Television Center.

CTA 1775 heads west on Cermak Road at Kostner circa 1952-54. This photo gives you a good view of a Chicago safety island.

CTA 1728 and 3127 on Route 21 – Cermak, just east of Kenton, circa 1952-54.

Chicago Aurora & Elgin 310 and follower (309?) are on the west side of Mannheim road near Roosevelt Road on a 1950s fantrip.

CA&E 310 on a 1955 fantrip on the Mt. Carmel branch.

Marion (Indiana) Railways Birney car 8. It was probably built by St. Louis Car Company circa 1922-23, and scrapped in 1947.

Marion Railways 8 circa World War II.

New Washington and Wabash “L” Station

The new Chicago Transit Authority “L” station at Washington and Wabash recently opened. It replaces two stations, at Madison and Randolph. Having one station instead of two speeds up service on the Loop. The Madison station was closed at the beginning of the project, while Randolph remained open until the new one was ready.

This new station is very attractive and seems designed well to handle large crowds. The old Randolph station was already being cut up for scrap when I took these pictures. Not sure what happened to the large CTA logo that was added when that station was renovated in 1954.

Washington and Wabash is conveniently located near Millennium Park, and also provides easy transfer to CTA buses heading east and west.

-David Sadowski

Charlie On the M.T.A.

A period illustration for the M.T.A. song (aka Charlie on the M.T.A.).

After purchasing a “Charlie Ticket” on our recent trip to Boston (see Back in Boston, September 15, 2017), that got us to thinking about the song that inspired it, generally known as Charlie On the M.T.A. We spent some time recently looking into the origins of this iconic song.

It all started in 1949, when the late Walter O’Brien ran for Mayor of Boston on the Progressive Party ticket. He had no money for advertising, but he did have some folksinging friends, who recorded several songs for his campaign, including The People’s Choice, The O’Brien Train, We Want Walter A. O’Brien, and The M.T.A. Song.

These had new lyrics set to old melodies that the folksingers, who included Bess Lomax Hawes, Al Katz, Sam Berman, Al Berman, and Jackie Steiner, were already familiar with. The M.T.A. song was set to the tune of The Ship That Never Returned, written in 1865 by Henry Clay Work.

The same song also inspired The Wreck of the Old 97.

Fare hikes were a reason to protest the newly formed M.T.A. The Massachusetts legislature had allowed the Boston Elevated Railway Company to absorb its competitors in 1922, creating a monopoly. When the company went bankrupt in 1947, the legislature bought the company, bailing out the shareholders, and formed the Massachusetts Transportation Authority (now called the MBTA).

As a result, a five cent surcharge was added to the existing ten cent fare. Since it was not easy to adapt existing fare collection equipment, riders had to pay an extra nickel when getting off the train– hence the theme of the song.

Bess Lomax Hawes, who had been in the Almanac Singers, picked the tune, while most of the new lyrics were written by Jackie Steiner. It was Hawes, however, who wrote the memorable verse about how Charlie’s wife brought him a sandwich every day and handed it to him through the window of the train as it rumbled by.

The newly recorded song made its debut on October 24, 1949. O’Brien hired a truck with a PA system and had it drive around the city, playing his campaign songs. Of these, M.T.A. was by far the most popular and enduring.

O’Brien got very few votes, but Charlie gained Boston immortality in the process.

Cut to 1955. Folksinger Richard “Specs” Simmons taught the song to Will Holt, who recorded his own version in 1957. This was on its way toward being a hit when his record company began getting complaints from the Boston area, accusing Holt of promoting a radical.

Not knowing the true origin of the song, Holt had no idea that Walter A. O’Brien was a real person.

An edited version was issued, but the damage was done. It was left to the Kingston Trio to record the best and by far most famous version of the song in 1959. They avoided controversy by changing the name of the mayoral candidate to the fictional George O’Brien.

Reportedly, when Will Holt recorded his version, he cut in Richard “Specs” Simmons for one-third of the publishing, which eventually provided him the cash to purchase a bar in San Francisco’s North Beach area, now known as Specs’ Twelve Adler Museum Cafe. He died at age 86 in October 2016.

Most other people involved with the song are no longer with us. Walter O’Brien has died. Bess Lomax Hawes, sister of Alan Lomax and daughter of John Lomax, passed away in 2009. However, Sam Berman, who sang lead on the original 1949 version, lives in Lexington and is in his early 90s. His brother Arnold, also in his 90s, may still be alive. Lyricist Jackie Steiner is also still with us.

You can listen to several versions of the song, including the 1949 original and Will Holt’s, here.

-David Sadowski

Recent Correspondence

A model of GM&O 1900.

Charles Harris of New Zealand writes:

In 1946 Ingalls Iron Works manufactured the one and only Ingalls 4-S diesel loco, tested on several railroads and then sold to GM&O. Used until 1966 and then scrapped. Used a Superior marine engine, with apparently a distinctive sound.

Do any of your recordings feature the Ingalls 4-S? and or film etc.

Kenneth Gear replies:

I am unaware of any sound recordings of the Ingalls 4-S diesel locomotive. Since it was a one of a kind loco and surely sought out by fans, and considering it lasted to the mid-sixties, the possibility exists that someone recorded it. I’ll keep an eye (and ear) out for it, I would watch for DVDs of vintage GM&O Diesels, perhaps it was filmed at some point with a sound movie camera. If so, the footage and sound track may have ended up on a DVD release.

You might also contact the Meridian Railroad Museum in Meridian, Mississippi: 1805 Front Street, Meridian, MS 39301, phone: (601) 485-7245.

GM&O was one of the local railroads here and the staff there my know of something.

By the way, on the Yahoo Group RAILROAD RECORD FANCLUB I’ve conversed with a person named Doug Harris who also lives in New Zealand. Any relation?

Our New Book Chicago Trolleys— Now In Stock!

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Overview

Chicago’s extensive transit system first started in 1859, when horsecars ran on rails in city streets. Cable cars and electric streetcars came next. Where new trolley car lines were built, people, businesses, and neighborhoods followed. Chicago quickly became a world-class city. At its peak, Chicago had over 3,000 streetcars and 1,000 miles of track—the largest such system in the world. By the 1930s, there were also streamlined trolleys and trolley buses on rubber tires. Some parts of Chicago’s famous “L” system also used trolley wire instead of a third rail. Trolley cars once took people from the Loop to such faraway places as Aurora, Elgin, Milwaukee, and South Bend. A few still run today.

The book features 230 classic black-and-white images, each with detailed captions, in 10 chapters:

1. Early Traction
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5. Interurbans Under Wire
6. The Streamlined Era
7. The War Years
8. Unification and Change
9. Trolley Buses
10. Preserving History

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ISBN-13: 9781467126816
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 09/25/2017
Series: Images of Rail
Pages: 128

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I just finished reading your book and I enjoyed it very much. Good, clear, concise, and informative writing.

I must compliment you on the choice and presentation of the photographs. It is obvious that you spent much time and effort to present these wonderful photos as perfectly restored as possible.

So many times the authors of books that are primarily “picture books” seem to have a complete disregard for the condition of the photos reproduced. I’ve often seen photos that are yellowed with age, water stained, ripped, folded, and scratched. Other times a book might contain photos that are not properly exposed, are crooked, out of focus, or the composition could have been easily corrected with a little cropping.

The photos in your book are absolutely fantastic! They are pristine, sharp, and have absolutely no blemishes at all. You also packed a lot of information into the captions as well. It’s a fine book and you should be proud, as I’m sure you are, to have your name on the cover.

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