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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
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.
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
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
Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 18
Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 18 is a rare example of a center-entrance suburban streetcar. The car was built in 1914 for the Cleveland street railway system but the center-entrance fad in streetcar design was short-lived. In 1921 the car was resold to the Shaker Heights suburban line and it operated
Indiana Railroad 205
Indiana Railroad 205 is a suburban car that originally ran between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana on the Interstate Public Service system. When that operation ended in the early 1930s, the Indiana Railroad rebuilt the car for one-man operation and moved it to Terre Haute, Indiana for use on the
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric 354
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric 354 is the last surviving streetcar operated by the North Shore Line. The North Shore was known primarily as an interurban, or inter-city, railway, but it also operated local streetcar service in Milwaukee, WI, and Waukegan, IL. Car 354 operated in Milwaukee until about 1942, when
Milwaukee & Suburban Transport 269
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co. served Milwaukee residents’ transit needs well, operating electric interurban lines to outlying towns and streetcars and motor buses in the city. Starting in 1936, they began replacing some streetcar routes with trolley buses, which they called “trackless trolleys” as in many Northeastern cities.
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Transport 441
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co. served Milwaukee residents’ transit needs well, operating electric interurban lines to outlying towns and streetcars and motor buses in the city. Starting in 1936, they began replacing some streetcar routes with trolley buses, which they called “trackless trolleys” as in many Northeastern cities.
Chicago Elevated Railway 1754
Chicago Elevated Railway 1754 is a wood-bodied ‘L’ car built for the Northwestern Elevated Railroad, a predecessor to CER and later Chicago Rapid Transit. It is the only preserved rapid transit car built by the Jewett Car Company, an Ohio firm that specialized in interurban cars, and was one of