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Chicago Transit Authority 2153 and 2154 at IRM

Barn 8

Barn 8 is one of our train exhibit buildings, or barns. In Barn 8 you’ll find restored ‘L’ cars from the Chicago rapid transit system, electric interurban cars from across the Midwest, and electrified freight equipment. Learn about the history of Chicago’s elevated railroad cars, from c1910 wooden cars to

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Barn 7

Barn 7

Barn 7 is one of our train exhibit buildings, or barns. In our Barn 7 exhibit building you can tour the history of street railways in America, starting with horse-drawn streetcars and ending with the streamlined PCC streetcars from the 1940s that closed out streetcar service in Chicago and many

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CA&E 431 in Barn 6 Exhibit Building at IRM

Barn 6

Barn 6 is one of our train exhibit buildings, or barns. In Barn 6 you’ll find interurban cars, freight equipment, and maintenance equipment from electric railways in the Chicago area and from across the Midwest. Exhibits in Barn 6 include: The elegant Talisman, a 1906 interurban parlor car that features

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Trolley Weekend

Trolley Weekend highlights the electric railroads that once blanketed the Chicago area. Enjoy special operations throughout the weekend. The theme for Trolley Weekend 2024 is Rapid/Interurban. Join us on Saturday to experience the full range of Chicago's rapid transit history, from an 1898 all-wooden open-platform 'L' car to modern stainless-steel

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Springfield Avenue Shelter

The Springfield Avenue waiting shelter was built in the early 1900s for the Rockford & Interurban electric railway. It was located on the west side of Rockford at about the intersection of Springfield Avenue and State Street, on the interurban line between Rockford and Freeport. It is typical of hundreds

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Chicago Day

Chicago Day commemorates the end of streetcar service in Chicago in 1958 with hometown streetcars, 'L' cars, and interurbans in operation. Join us and celebrate the transportation heritage of the Windy City.

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Chicago Aurora & Elgin 453

Chicago Aurora & Elgin 453 is one of the last traditional interurban cars built in the United States. The CA&E ordered ten modern curve-side coaches in 1941 but the cars weren’t completed until 1945 due to World War II. Cars 451-460 featured lightweight design and newer electric control systems but

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Union Pacific M35

UP M-35 is the museum’s only example of a “doodlebug,” the universal nickname given to self-propelled internal combustion-powered passenger cars built during the 1920s. Cars like this were intended to provide passenger service on very lightly-trafficked branch lines and short lines, where a steam engine hauling a passenger train would

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Toledo-Detroit 16

Toledo-Detroit Railroad 16 is the only 4-4-0 at IRM and one of the most modern examples of that wheel arrangement in preservation anywhere. The 4-4-0 was so ubiquitous on American railroads between the 1850s and early 1900s that it was called the American type. By the early 1900s very few

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Chicago Transit Authority 4391

Chicago Transit Authority 4391 is the last surviving postwar PCC from Chicago. Nicknamed “Green Hornets,” the 600 largely identical PCC cars the Chicago Surface Lines ordered after after World War II were intended to modernize the city’s more heavily-trafficked streetcar lines while more lightly-traveled lines would be abandoned or replaced

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