CTA RAPID TRANSIT ROSTER



Numbers    Builder           Built

2201-2352  Budd              1969-70
2401-2600  Boeing-Vertol     1976-78
2601-3200  Budd              1981-87
3201-3440  Morrison-Knudsen  1992-94
3441-3456  Morrison-Knudsen  1993-94
3457       Morrison-Knudsen  1994
5001-5406  Bombardier        2009-12

Click for Car Assignments By Line. (From the Chicago-L.org Web Site.)

All cars are in married pairs, consecutively numbered. Prior to the 3200's, all cars were originally were designed for two person operation. The odd numbered car in each pair was equipped with conductor's controls, at the center of the pair on each side. The 3200's were the first cars originally equipped for one person operation, with full width cabs.

In 1997, the other cars were refitted for one person operation. The cars were initially refitted to include the same cabs on the right corner of the car. But the cab door would be kept open, with door controls added to the left side, and yellow "police" type tape used to mark off the the motorman's area. All cars were subsequently refitted with full width cabs.

Cars retired or renumbered include 2257-2258, 2289-2290, 2307-2308, 2315-2316, 2341-2342, 2447-2448, 2481, 2517-2518, 2532, 2792, 2855, 3031.

Cars 2351 and 2352 were renumbered from other numbers of that series, which had their mates retired. And cars 2482 and 2531, 2791 and 2856 are now paired together, previously having mates which were retired.

Cars 3441-3456 were equipped with pantographs for use on the "Skokie Swift" Yellow Line, half of which used overhead catenary until 2004. Pantographs were removed from cars 3451-3456, and those cars were reassigned to the Brown Line.

Car 3457 is paired with car 3458, which was renumbered from car 3032, whose mate was retired. Those cars are assigned to the Purple Line.

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CTA has ordered 406 new cars, for delivery beginning in 2009. These new cars will replace the 2200's and 2400's.