Continue.Illinois Railway Museum celebrates rail history
Those who can spare a few hours away from a grill or the beach on the Fourth of July, could see something that spent much of the last half century cooling its wheels: The Sand Springs Railway 68.
“It ran for the first time in 50 years three and a half years ago in the fall,” Illinois Railway Museum president Barb Lanphier said. “Our goal is to have it ready for the trolley pageant.”
Built in 1918 by the Cincinnati Car Company, this electric interurban trolley once ran between Sand Springs and Tulsa, Okla., before it was moved to the Tulsa fairgrounds and sold to a tourist line in Arkansas. It was stripped in an ill-fated plan to use it as non-motorized coach pulled like a tram car.
Illinois Railway Museum
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, Jul 01 2007 02:26 PM
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Posted 01 July 2007 - 02:26 PM
Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake, IL:
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Posted 08 April 2016 - 10:04 AM
The Illinois Railway Museum, Union, IL
Short article with slide show of 20 pics here:
http://www.examiner....linois#slide=20
Some of the captions are inaccurate, however. For example, the North Shore's Electroliner is an "electric locomotive."
Sloan
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Posted 24 April 2018 - 03:35 PM
6 reasons to plan a visit to Illinois Railway Museum
Six reasons are at this link:
http://www.chicagopa...railway-museum/
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