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The museum was founded in 1953 by ten people who joined to purchase Indiana Railroad interurban car 65. Originally called the Illinois Electric Railway Museum, the museum was located on the grounds of the Chicago Hardware Foundry in North Chicago. In 1961, it was renamed to the Illinois Railway Museum to reflect its
Williamson County Museum: Marion: Williamson: Southern: Local history: Features Victorian period rooms in the former jail and sheriff's house, operated by the Williamson County Illinois Historical Society: William Tanner House Museum: Aurora: Kane: Chicago area: Historic house: Antebellum Italianate-style house, owned and operated by the Aurora ...
Six spent shell casings were found on the train. [3] About 15 minutes after the shooting, Davis returned to the Blue Line and boarded a train headed for The Loop. Over an hour after the discovery of the bodies, a CTA employee at the California station on the Pink Line spotted Davis and phoned the Chicago Police Department; Davis was arrested at ...
James Barbier was arrested Monday at his St. Louis County home and charged with first-degree murder in the November 1966 death of 18-year-old Karen Snider in Cook County, Illinois. The break came ...
The Galena station of Galena, Illinois was built in 1857 and originally served the Illinois Central Railroad. [6] The two story Italianate structure is included in the Galena Historic District . Over the years, the station hosted the Illinois Central's Hawkeye , Iowan , Land O'Corn , and Sinnissippi trains.
The Electroliners are a pair of streamlined interurban trainsets built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1941. Initially numbered 801–802 and 803–804, they were operated by the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad from 1941 to 1963, followed by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (later SEPTA) from 1964 to 1978.
The museum encompasses much of the former rail yard that Illinois Central maintained at Amboy's Northern Division Headquarters for its Cairo to East Dubuque line. When the line was completed in 1855 it was the longest rail line in the world. The museum consists of three buildings with the Amboy Illinois Central Depot being its primary structure.
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