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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I took this photo during an August 2000 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum, located in the town of Union Illinois. It was a special occasion weekend at the IRM, as they were celebrating their vintage transportation extravaganza. I took this photo at the northeast curve on the museum's demonstration trolley loop. The classic 1950's era vintage automobile in the foreground, Chicago Surface Lines electric...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Hello everybody! Welcome aboard Eddie's Railfan Page from the city of Chicago Illinois. This is an old photo taken of Me way back in April of 1986. I don't remember the location of this pedestrian overpass bridge at one of the many Chicago Transit Authority elevated rapid transit stations, but I do remember that I was having a wonderful time riding with My fellow railfans aboard a chartered CTA railfan...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I took this photo on Sunday, March 17th 1985. During 1985 and 1986, the Illinois Railway Museum operated a late winter / early springtime series of fantrips billed as "The Snowflake Special". Both the 1985 and 1986 fantrips utilized 8 car trains of 1950's era 6000 series rapid transit cars built by the St. Louis Car Company, from salvaged electrical components acquired from scrapped CTA PCC...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I took this photo on an Illinois Railway Museum sponsored fantrip over the Chicago Transit Authority's rapid transit lines in April of 1986. The excursion was billed as " The Snowflake Special" and utilized an 8 car train of 1950's era 6000 series rapid transit cars that were built by the St. Louis Car Company. The Snowflake Special chartered excursion train, is seen performing a photo runby...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
In April of 1986, the Illinois Railway Museum sponsored a chartered fantrip over the Chicago Transit Authority's rapid transit rail lines around the city of Chicago Illinois. The trip was billed as "The Snowflake Special", and utilized an 8 car train of 1950's era CTA lightweight 6000 series rapid transit cars that were operating in their final decade of service. One of the sidelines to this...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
I took this photo on an April 1986 chartered fantrip over the Chicago Transit Authority's rapid transit system. The chartered excursion was sponsored by the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois, and was billed as "The Snowfalke Special". The rapid transit cars that are seen here were built during the 1950's by the St. Louis Car Company using components from scrapped CTA PCC electric...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
I took this photo inside one of the many display barns, at the Illinois Railway Museum. A fair amount of equipment from the defunct Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, has found it's way to the Illinois Railway Museum for preservation. Seen here is the North Shore Lines corporate logo, on the side of one of their modernized "Silverliner" electric interurban multiple unit cars....
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Exhibits about the golden era of passenger train travel can be viewed up close first hand, at the Illinois Railway Museum. Seen here is an old 1920's era passenger dining car from the fallen flag railroad Louisville and Nashville. This car served quality on board home cooked meals in pre Amtrak times.
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I took this photo inside one of the many display barns at the Illinois Railway Museum. This is an up close front view of preserved Chicago, Aurora and Elgin steel coach # 431.
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
I took this photo during a July 2009 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum. These two early 1900's era wooden interurban coaches, operated for the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin electric interurban railroad for many years until 1957. Today, they have have been lovingly restored and operate at the Illinois Railway Museum, located in the town of Union Illinois. These two cars have been restored and painted...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
I took this photo on an August 2006 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum in the town of Union Illinois. Chicago Surface Lines electric streetcars # 1374 ( Left. built in 1906.) and car # 144 ( Right. Built in 1908.) are seen operating on the museum's circular trolley loop.
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
It's nice taking those portrait style photos of the antique railroad equipment at railroad museums, but it is even nicer yet when You can take a photo that could be straight out of the historic past. Except for the outfit that the young girl in the doorway is wearing, this image of the two wooden Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad wooden interurban cars....could easily have been taken on the C,A &...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
This photo of a recently restored and repainted relic of the former Burlington Northern Railroad, brought back some very happy and special memorys for Me on a Friday, July 3rd 2009 visit. During the 1980's and early 1990's, I frequently would visit downtown west suburban La Grange Illinois for an afternoon of lineside railfan photography with My trusty 35MM camera in hand. Sometimes I would bring My...
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
I took this photo inside one of the many display barns at the Illinois Railway Museum. Seen here is the corporate logo of the defunct Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee electric interurban railroad. This logo was paint stenciled on to the sides of a preserved 1920's era wooden freight motor used in Merchandise Dispatch Service many decades ago.
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
In the earlier part of the 20th Century, many citties and outlying ( Sometimes Rural) small towns and communities, were served by electric interurban railroads. This lightweight interurban car built to modified city streetcar design, was used in suburban streetcar service in later years between Granite City Illinois, and Saint Louis Missouri. After the end of service in 1958, it eventually became part...
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