Chicago Surface Lines 4001 is the last surviving pre-PCC streamliner. During the early 1930s the Electric Railway Presidents Conference Committee, or PCC, worked to develop a modern streetcar. Chicago ordered car 4001 and one other as prototypes to test modern technologies. Car 4001 was all-aluminum, to save weight, and used

Chicago Surface Lines 4021 is the only surviving pre-war PCC car from Chicago. Nicknamed the “Blue Goose,” car 4021 and 82 other identical cars were delivered in 1936 in a modernization effort and went into service on the Madison Street line in Chicago. Later the car was rebuilt for one-man

By far the newest and most modern streetcar preserved at the museum is Toronto Transit Commission 4034. It is a CLRV, which stands for Canadian Light Rail Vehicle, and is a design developed in the 1970s for a streetcar to replace aging PCC cars then in use in Toronto. It

The only Pullman-built PCC car in the museum’s collection is Cleveland Transit System 4223. It is largely a standard postwar PCC car but features an unusual rooftop monitor which contains an air circulating system. It is in the midst of a major multi-year rebuilding effort to return it to original

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

Chicago Surface Lines 9020 is the only surviving streetcar trailer from Chicago. Between the early 1920s and the Great Depression, some rush hour service on the Chicago streetcar system was provided by two-car trains with a standard streetcar towing an unpowered trailer like car 9020. With falling ridership in 1930,

Tri City Railway & Light 483 ran for the street railway company in the Quad Cities. It was built in the aftermath of a devastating car barn fire in June 1913 that destroyed a large portion of the company’s streetcars. It is the only surviving streetcar from the Quad Cities

New Jersey Transit 4 is a typical postwar PCC streamlined streetcar. It originally ran for Twin City Rapid Transit and operated in Minneapolis and St. Paul until that streetcar system was closed in 1953. Car 4 then went to Newark, New Jersey where it entered service on that city’s subway/surface

West Chicago Street Railroad 4 is the oldest electric car at IRM. Its early history is obscure but it was built in 1895, when many streetcar lines in Chicago were still operated by cable cars, and remained in service into the mid-1910s, after which it was stored for potential emergency

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