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Timetables & Ephemera
Collection Name: Timetables and Ephemera Collection Location: Strahorn Library Description: Public timetables, employee timetables, ephemera Size: Percent Digitized: 0%
EMD Technical Library
Collection Name: Electro-Motive Division Technical Library Location: Strahorn Library, Pullman Library Description: Books, color illustrations Size: Percent Digitized: 0% For more information on the Pullman Library, see www.irm.org/pullmanlibrary
Pullman Manufacturing
Collection Name: Pullman Manufacturing Drawings Location: Pullman Library Description: Brochures; Carbuilder magazines; color and design sketches, drawings; documentation – private cars; export production; facility maps, photographs; freight car contract books, correspondence files, drawings, drawing index, glass plate negatives, lot lists; historical photos; marketing ad copies, films, photographs; military armored vehicle
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
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
Jewell Road Station
The Jewell Road station is a small, unmanned station – essentially a large waiting shelter – that was built by the Chicago Aurora & Elgin electric railway. It was located on the west side of Wheaton where the CA&E Elgin branch crossed Jewell Road. It was donated to IRM in
CRT Gateman’s Shanty
This gateman’s shanty is typical of the ones used on the Chicago Rapid Transit system at its ground-level road crossings. Before the ubiquity of automatic crossing gates, railroad crossings needed to be staffed by a gate operator, and these men were given small buildings – known as gateman’s shanties –
Central Diner
The Central Diner, as it is known as IRM, is a roadside diner built in 1934 by the Jerry O’Mahony Company of Elizabeth, NJ. It was never a railroad car, but was built to imitate the appearance of a railroad coach. It was also designed to be picked up and
50th Avenue Station
This rapid transit station was built in 1910 by the Metropolitan-West Side Elevated Railroad and was originally located where its Douglas Park branch crossed 50th Avenue in suburban Cicero, IL. As with many elevated lines in Chicago, the outer end of this branch ran at ground level, and stations like
North Shore Gateman’s Shanty #1
This gateman’s shanty is typical of the ones used on the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee electric interurban railway at its ground-level road crossings. Before the ubiquity of automatic crossing gates, railroad crossings needed to be staffed by a gate operator, and these men were given small buildings – known