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cta6133.jpg
(110k)
Car 6133, in its classic cream/green/orange paint scheme,
heads an Englewood-Howard "A" train waiting to pull out of
Howard on July 20, 1968. On the next track, another PCC
train (probably an Evanston Shuttle that hasn't switched its
rear destination sign) is loading passengers.
(Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta6293.jpg
(119k)
Still in its Mercury Green, Croydon Cream, Swamp Holly
Orange paint scheme, car 6293 brings up the rear of a
Jackson Park-Howard All-Stop at Howard on July 21, 1968. The
scene gives an interesting look at 1960s-era CTA signage,
including the pre-CTA blue and white enamel station sign on
the extreme left which reads "Howard - City Limits".
(Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta6332.jpg
(124k)
Car 6332 leads a Jackson Park-Howard "B" train preparing to
leave for its southbound run from Howard terminal on August
14, 1978. Skokie Swift 1-50
series car 26 is loading passengers on the next track.
(Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta51a.jpg (44k)
Car 51, assigned to Skokie Swift service, loads passengers at Howard on August 18, 1970. The plexiglas panels divide the Howard platform into different paid areas. At this time, the Skokie and Evanston Lines had a higher fare for through riders from the city. The fare differential was paid at an agent booth on the platform. (Collection of Joe Testagrose) |
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cta6518b.jpg
(101k)
A Jackson Park-Howard "B" train loads passengers at Howard
as car 6518 picks up the rear on August 29, 1982. The view
looks east from the corner of Howard and Hermitage. Today,
the postwar commercial buildings on the corner have been
cleared for redevelopment. (Photo by Doug
Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta24b.jpg
(127k)
In its unique platinum and charcoal with international
orange belt rail, car 24 alights passengers at Howard after
completing its Skokie Swift run on August 29, 1974.
(Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta24c.jpg
(127k)
Car 24 loads passengers at Howard before beginning its run
on the Skokie Swift on August 19, 1970. Note its Stemmen
pantograph instead of the CTA-designed pan trolley used on
standard Skokie cars. The 1-50
ahead of 24 is probably an Evanston Shuttle car.
(Photo by Joe Testagrose)
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cta24d.jpg
(117k)
Car 24 discharges passengers at Howard on May 29, 1975. Note
that the CTA's "new" Helvetica-font signage is already being
phased in, both in 24's destination sign (the blue
background Skokie Swift) and
in some of the platform signage on the left. Yet some of the
CTA's 1950s-era signage also remains on the
left. (Photo by Ed McKernen, Collection of
Joe Testagrose)
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cta25.jpg
(111k)
Car 25, painted for the Bicentennial as the "'Light House'
Harry Lee", stops at Howard in April 1976.
(Photo by Ed McKernen, Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta26a.jpg
(131k)
Car 26 stops to load passengers at Howard on August 19,
1970. The corrugated fiberglass panels on the platform used
to divide different paid areas; they have since been
removed. (Photo by Joe
Testagrose)
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cta28b.jpg
(140k)
Assigned to the Evanston Shuttle, car 28 loads passengers at
Howard on the 4th of July, 1971. The metal barriers on the
platform at Howard separated the base fare area from the
extra fare area. At the time, there was a differential
collected from riders transferring to the northbound
Evanston or Skokie trains at Howard. They were also used
extensively on the Lake Street Line, though for different
reasons. Note the old-style A/B sign on the platform
wall. (Photo by Joe Testagrose)
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cta39c.jpg
(104k)
Car 39 leads this four-car northbound Evanston Express train
at Howard, followed by another 1-50
and a 6000 pair, on
October 10, 1972. (Photo by Steve Zabel,
Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta40c.jpg
(128k)
Car 40, still dressed up as the "Concord" two years after
the Bicentennial, stops at Howard after completing a run on
the Evanston Shuttle on August 14, 1978. On the next track
is 6000-series car
6430. Note that the colored-coded A/B signs have been
installed here; later versions at Howard placed the address
coordinates over each other instead of next to each other on
the station name signs. (Photo by Doug
Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta54c.jpg
(125k)
In its Bicentennial scheme, car 54 -- the John Paul Jones --
loads passengers at Howard on the Skokie Swift run on
September 22, 1976. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn,
Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta54d.jpg
(111k)
Looking dusty and faded in appearance, car 54 sports its
Mint Green and Alpine White paint scheme while stopping at
Howard on August 8, 1974. (Photo by Doug
Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta2400s3200s@howard.jpg
(95k)
A Yellow Line 3200
and Red Line 2400
load and unload passengers at Howard on April 10,
1998. (Photo by Sean Gash)
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cta2600s3200s@howard.jpg
(92k)
A Dan Ryan-bound Red Line train boards southbound passengers
on track 2 (on the right), while a Skokie-bound Yellow Line
train picks up its load on track 3 at Howard in May 1999.
(Photo by Sean Gash)
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cta1776b.jpg
(120k)
Bicentennial car 1776 -- the "Benjamin Franklin" -- is "Out
of Service" at Howard Street on January 26, 1975. Why car
1776 is here is uncertain: the unit is assigned to the
West-South Route at this point in its
career. (Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta2103.jpg
(84k)
Car 2103 leads an Englewood-Howard All-Stop at Howard
terminal on August 29, 1982. By this point, approximately
half of the 2000-series
cars have been transferred off the West-South Route onto the
North-South Route, with many (like 2103-2104) repainted into
the Spirit of Chicago paint scheme; the 3rd and 4th cars are
still in the platinum and black scheme of the 1970s.
(Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta2118b.jpg
(122k)
In its new Spirit of Chicago paint scheme, car 2118 leads a
Jackson Park-Howard All-Stop train about to leave Howard on
its way toward the Loop and South Side on August 29, 1982.
(Photo by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe
Testagrose)
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cta2401b.jpg
(103k)
Being tested around the system, cars 2401-2402 spent some
time on the North-South Route. Here, car 2401 leads a
southbound train at Howard on September 22, 1976. Note the
"Sprit of Chicago" destination sign. (Photo
by Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta2461.jpg
(127k)
Car 2461 trails a North-South train (one presumes, though it
shows only "Spirit of Chicago" signs) at Howard on August
17, 1978. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn,
Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta2470.jpg
(134k)
Car 2470 leads an Englewood-Howard All-Stop stopped at
Howard on August 14, 1978. A train of North-South 6000s
waits across the island platform. (Photo by
Doug Grotjahn, Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta4256.jpg
(111k)
A four-car Evanston Express led by car 4256 loads and
discharges passengers at Howard on July 22, 1968. A
North-South train of PCC cars stands across the island
platform. (Photo by Doug Grotjahn,
Collection of Joe Testagrose)
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cta2554.jpg
(93k)
A northbound four-car Purple Line Shuttle, led by car 2554,
pulls into Howard on September 3, 2000. The new park'n'ride
garage is under construction on the right.
(Photo by Mike Farrell)
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cta2565.jpg
(80k)
After reversing direction on the turnback loop, a 95th/Dan
Ryan-bound Red Line train, led by car 2565, is pulling into
Howard to pick up passengers bound for the Loop and South
Side on September 26, 1999. (Photo by Mike
Farrell)
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cta2640.jpg
Rehabbed 2600-series
car 2640 trails a Red Line train on the southbound Howard
station platform in May 1999. (Photo by Sean
Gash)
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cta2723.jpg
A southbound Red Line train, fronted by car 2733,
pulls into Howard to board passengers for the journey toward
the Loop and 95th Street on February
19, 2000. (Photo by Jack S. and Chris
L.)
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cta2682.jpg
Looking across the center tracks to the
northbound platform, we see rehabbed car 2682 finishing its
run at Howard on February 19, 2000. From here, the train
will go around the loop track in Howard
Yard and return to the station's southbound platform
begin its trip back south. (Photo by Jack S.
and Chris L.)
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cta3442.jpg
(84k)
Skokie Swift cars 3441-3442 arrive at Howard Street in
December 1999. Here, passengers can transfer to the Red and
Purple Lines. The Skokie-assigned 3200s,
like those seen here, are equipped with trolley pantographs
for overhead operation west of East Prairie Road.
(Photo by Eric Zabelny)
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cta6473b.jpg
6000-series
car 6473 is preparing to head south on the Howard-Jackson
Park "B" run on track 2 (right) while a 5-50
series car is loading passengers for a trip on the
Skokie Swift, looking south at Howard in the 1960s.
(Photo from the Mike Farrell
Collection)
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cta1-50s05.jpg
A single 1-50
series unit, assigned to Evanston shuttle service, is on
track 3 at Howard station circa the late 1960s, ready to
leave for the trip north. Although the Evanston Line ran
mostly off overhead wire, the poles are tied down because
the changeover won't be made until South
Boulevard. (Photo from the Mike Farrell
Collection)
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cta2000s@Howard.jpg
(36k)
A North-South train of 2000-series
cars approaches the end of the line at Howard, switching
from track 3 to track 4 enter the station, in July 1988. The
unusually long platform for track 3 (at left) was built in
the early 1960s so that North Shore Line trains and Evanston
trains could berth on the same platform, while North-South
subway trains were assigned to berth on track 4. Later,
Skokie Swift and Evanston trains were assigned to track 3.
As time went on, these platform assignments were less strict
and were done away with completely in 1991.
(Photo by James Raymond)
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cta4000s@howard.jpg
(148k)
After the above June 1968 fantrip, the six-car train of
Plushie 4000s
unloads at Howard while a 1-50
on the Evanston Shuttle unloads after a run from Linden.
Note the railfans on the right taking photos. The transite
barriers divide the platforms into different paid and unpaid
areas at a time when the North-South and shuttle trains had
differential fares. (Photo by Leon
Kay)
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cta2969-United.jpg
(170k)
In September, two units were wrapped for United
Airlines: cars 2969-70 on the Purple
Line and 3133-34 on the Blue
Line. The cars advertised the additional leg room on
United
planes with a cartoon of a man whose legs extended across
both cars of the two-car unit. Car 2969, one half of the
Purple Line
cars, is seen at Howard on September 29, 2005.
(Photo by Graham Garfield)
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cta2970-United.jpg
(180k)
The other half of the United
Airlines Purple
Line ad wrap unit is seen at Howard on September 29,
2005 on car 2970. The cartoon man's long legs end and the
middle and right end of the graphic feature United's
logo and tagline. (Photo by Graham
Garfield)
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cta5541.jpg (195k)
Two Red Line 5000-series trains sit at the Howard terminal on the night of March 24, 2015, car 5541 in the foreground leading a train at the end of its northbound trip, while car 5361 is at the rear of a train awaiting its departure time to 95th in the background. (Photo by Corey Ellison) |
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cta5271-5587.jpg (239k)
With all three of the lines using the station now fully equipped with 5000-series cars, Howard station tends to be an all-5000s environment. Here, on the left car 5271 leads a Red Line train that is pulling in at the end of its trip and is going to unload its passengers before heading into the yard to turn around. Meanwhile, car 5587 trails a Loop-bound Purple Line Express train, pausing briefly to board and alight passengers, before it continues on its way downtown on October 30, 2015. (Photo by Graham Garfield) |
