Below is a limited sample of what the CTA currently operates, but by no means complete in covering the CTA throughout it's history.
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1969 | Budd Company | 2332 | The interior train car 2332 while laying over at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on the Blue Line. The doors are know as "blinker" doors that open by folding inwards. This was the last order of cars to have them. Also, these cars received rebuilds in the early 90's and our currently the oldest cars running on the system. This order consisted of 150 cars. (Source:Chicago "L".org). | 12/30/2004 |
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1981-1987 | Budd Company | 2610 | 2610 seen leading a consist on the 95th Street-Dan Ryan line (Red Line). Rebuilding of these cars began in 1998, there is a total of 600 cars (300 married pairs) in this series. (Source:Chicago "L".org) | 1/02/2005 |
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1981-1987 | Budd Company | 2794 | 2794 on the Red Line is part of the same order as 2610. | 12/31/2004 |
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1991 | Flxible 40102-6T "Metro" | 5397 | 5397 is among one of the 1100 Flxible Metros that CTA took delivery of in 1991 and 1995. | 1/02/2005 |
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1991 | Flxible 40102-6T "Metro" | 5397 | 5397 is among one of the 1100 Flxible Metros that CTA took delivery of in 1991 and 1995. | 1/02/2005 |
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1991 | Flxible 40102-6T "Metro" | 5509 | 5509 seen at a bus stop loading passengers. | 1/01/2005 |
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1991 | Flxible 40102-6T "Metro" | 5585 | 5585 seen operating with a blank destination sign. | 1/01/2005 |
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1991 | Flxible 40102-6T "Metro" | 5606 | 5606 waits at a traffic light for a green./TD> | 1/01/2005 |
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1991 | TMC T80-208 "RTS" | 4412 | 4412 shown at a bus stop. These buses were rebuilt in 2002, air conditioning was installed in them. The buses use to have rear windows, but air conditioning was installed in place of the window. As a result they looked more like a typical RTS. LED lights were also added at some point. These additions apply to the entire active fleet of 102 inch wide TMC RTS's of CTA's, the original order size was for 476 buses. | 1/01/2005 |
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1991 | TMC T80-208 "RTS" | 4435 | 4435 seen operating on Route 145 Wilson. | 1/02/2005 |
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1991 | TMC T80-208 "RTS" | 4435 | 4435 seen at a bus stop operating on Route 145 Wilson. | 1/02/2005 |
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1991 | TMC T80-208 "RTS" | 4511 | 4511 waits at a traffic light for a green. | 1/01/2005 |
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1991 | TMC T80-208 "RTS" | 4620 | 4620 seen possibly laying over with a NABI 60LFW in front. | 1/01/2005 |
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1991 | TMC T80-208 "RTS" | 4697 | 4697 seen working Route 151 Sheridan. | 1/01/2005 |
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1991 | TMC T80-208 "RTS" | 4697 | 4697 seen working Route 151 Sheridan. | 1/01/2005 |
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1995 | Flxible 40102-6T "Metro" | 6071 | 6071 seen opearting on Route 151 Halsted. | 1/01/2005 |
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2000 | Novabus TL40102A "LFS" | 6404 | 6404 seen on a rainy morning on Route 3. | 1/02/2005 |
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2000 | Novabus TL40102A "LFS" | 6436 | A side view of 6436. This is among one of 484 of thse Novabus's that CTA had delivered to them in 2000 and 2001. These were CTA's first large orders for low floor buses. In 1995, 65 New Flyer D40LF's were built for the CTA and 3 Fuel Cell NFI low floors in 1997 were also built for the CTA. | 1/02/2005 |
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2000 | Novabus TL40102A "LFS" | 6444 | 6444 seen on Route 3 King Drive. | 1/02/2005 |
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2003 | NABI 60LFW | 7571 | This order was primarly to replace the MAN articulated buses which were around 20 years of age. The order was for 226 buses and was the first North American Bus Industires (NABI) vehicles ever operated by the CTA. 7571 is seen on the Route 147 Howard/Red L. | 1/02/2005 |
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2003 | NABI 60LFW | 7586 | 7586 seen from the side. | 1/02/2005 |
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2003 | NABI 60LFW | 7611 | 7611 seen from the side. | 1/01/2005 |
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2003 | NABI 60LFW | 7619 | 7619 seen opearting Route 147 Congress/Micagan Ave. | 1/02/2005 |
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2003 | NABI 60LFW | 7619 | 7619 seen opearting Route 147 Congress/Micagan Ave. | 1/02/2005 |
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2003 | NABI 60LFW | 7624 | 7624 seen opearting Route 146 Museum Camp. | 1/02/2005 |
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N/A | N/A | CTA "L" | A farily detailed map of the CTA "L" map. The "L" is the rail link in the Chicago area using many elevated railways and at grade as well. The cars are not quite light rail as they are more heavy duty and somewhat similar to what a subway system would run like. | 12/30/2004 |