Chicago.trains Posted September 30, 2019 Report Posted September 30, 2019 Several years ago I was walking through the bus terminal at Howard and found a small pamphlet laying on the ground. I almost didn't pick it up, but I'm quite glad that I did. I stashed it away with some other CTA odds and ends for a while until recently when I pulled it out having now started as a bus operator myself (North Park). I took a few minutes over the past few days when I was able to try out some of the codes on this guide and, for the most part, they all work as you would expect. It seems that the CTA's style is to leave old signs in the programming, adding codes when needed and updating others. (For example, the code for "NW Station" in the guide properly displays "Ogilvie Station".) It's interesting to see what options are available and I have a few questions that perhaps someone can help with such as why there is a 290 to McCormick option. Was that at one time part of a North Park pull in routing? Regardless, this at least explains why from time to time I see 145, etc. signs on buses when I assume something went wrong. Other things I've noticed include that "to Howard Station" (061) seems to no longer work and displays "Chicago is / My Kind of Town" and that code 003 gives an easter egg, likely from whoever was programming the signs at some point reading "Hi Zac!" Anyway, enjoy! 3 7 Quote
MetroShadow Posted September 30, 2019 Report Posted September 30, 2019 This is pretty rad. Thanks for sharing. The McCormick short turns were deleted sometime in the late 2000’s. IIRC. And you’re right: those were pull ins (and also mall extras to supplant the 290 to Lincolnwood) Quote
MTRSP1900-CTA3200 Posted September 30, 2019 Report Posted September 30, 2019 This is really cool, thank you for sharing this! HI ZAC! Quote
andrethebusman Posted September 30, 2019 Report Posted September 30, 2019 Since destination signs are in base 16, you can have something like 10,000 readings. Where the fun comes in is when the signs interface wrong with the program that controls the announcements. Then you get things like WB 95 running with 90N N HARLEM to TOUHY displayed! 1 Quote
andrethebusman Posted September 30, 2019 Report Posted September 30, 2019 The 290 to McCormick was evening 22 pullins when real 290 had some big headway gaps. Eventually replaced by the normal Howard-Western-Foster routing Quote
fg.mark Posted October 11, 2019 Report Posted October 11, 2019 I have seen a few run numbers as FD and nothing else. The supervisor said that it is an error, but what does it actually stand for? All of those buses were from Forest Glen. Quote
Piesciuk Posted November 12, 2019 Report Posted November 12, 2019 We have loaded a few more destination sign code lists at http://irm-cta.org/Rollsigns.html (They are at the bottom of the page) Quote
YoungBusLover Posted January 21, 2021 Report Posted January 21, 2021 Not to bump an old thread but to my fellow operators have any of you found a more recent list of codes? Or does the current one still work becuase I'm trying to figure out which ones work at the moment on the latest clever system. Quote
Mr.NewFlyer1051 Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 4 hours ago, YoungBusLover said: Not to bump an old thread but to my fellow operators have any of you found a more recent list of codes? Or does the current one still work becuase I'm trying to figure out which ones work at the moment on the latest clever system. maybe @Shannoncvpi does? Quote
Shannoncvpi Posted January 22, 2021 Report Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said: maybe @Shannoncvpi does? I havent tried to play with it Quote
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