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Chicago's Rapid Transit Volume 1 Rolling Stock 1892 - 1947 CERA #113
Chicagos Rapid Transit Volume 1 Rolling Stock 1892 to 1947 CERA Bulletin #113.
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1973
248 pages
Contents
ROLLING STOCK/SOUTH SIDE
Steam Locomotives 1-46 1
Trailers/Motors 1-180 11
Motors 181-250 19
Motors 251-400 23
Intramural Railway 1-72 29
ROLLING STOCK/NORTHWESTERN
Motors 1001-1059 33
Trailers 1100-1259 41
Trailers 1260-1299 49
Motors 1700-1734 55
Motors 1735-1768 59
Motors 1769-1788 63
Motors 1789-1815 67
ROLLING STOCK/METROPOLITAN
Trailers 2100-2199 75
Trailers 2200-2249 83
Trailers 2250-2267 87
Trailers 2268-2340 89
Trailers 2500-2520 99
Motors 2701-2755 105
Motors 2756-2781 125
Motors 2782-2789 141
Motors 2790-2857 143
Motors 2858-2927 151
ROLLING STOCK/LAKE STREET
Steam Locomotives 1-35 161
Trailers/Motors 3001-3138 167
Motors 3139-3146 177
Motors 3147-3166 179
Trailers 3201-3238 185
ROLLING STOCK/CER-CRT
Trailers 4001-4066 191
Motors 4067-4250 197
Motors 4251-4455 203
Motor 4456 213
Motors 5001-5004 215
ROLLING STOCK/SERVICE CARS
Service Cars 229
ROLLING STOCK/PROPOSED CARS
Proposed Cars 245
This is the first in a several-volume series of reference works on the equipment, facilities and operations of the elevated and subway system in Chicago, operation that began in 1892 on the South Side and spread to cover the bulk of the city and several suburbs in the intervening eighty years. No less than four divisions were involved in shaping the basic network, some intertwined financially, some independent. All four-South Side, Metropolitan, Northwestern, and Lake Street, were loosely "consolidated" into an operating association in 1913 to facilitate through-routing, and were further amalgamated into the Chicago Rapid Transit Company in 1924. The entire property was combined with the Chicago Surface Lines (operator of the city's streetcars, trolley coaches and some motor buses) to become the publicly-owned Chicago Transit Authority in 1947; CTA subsequently purchased the Chicago Motor Coach Company in 1952 to unify virtually all local transit under a single management.
In the eighty years since the first "L" train steamed over the Congress to 39th Street right-of-way on the South Side, rapid transit in Chicago has meant the operation of about 2500 pieces of rolling stock, from the ornately-scrolled wood coaches of the 1890's to the air-conditioned stainless-steel cars of the 1970's. This volume will cover about half the total fleet-all cars built prior to the assumption of control by the CTA October 1, 1947. The next volume in this series will detail the remainder of the cars (post-1947) and will feature an engineer's eye view of rapid transit equipment in Chicago down through the years.
The groupings in this book are by division (South Side, Northwestern, Metropolitan, Lake Street, followed by cars purchased by the combined system), further broken down in numerical order, with post-1913 numbers used as references to avoid confusion in duplication of road series. Each group is referenced to its purchaser, with subsequent owners and road numbers then indicated. The technical specifications follow, with overall dimensions also indicated, along with pertinent notes, car plans and photographs.
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