Trolley Pageant at the Illinois Railway Museum, July 6, 2013
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- The Illinois Railway Museum's annual Trolley Pageant is a chance for the museum to showcase their extensive collection of electric railroad equipment. Since this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the museum, the volunteers at the museum wanted this year's pageant to be spectacular. So I drove out to Union, Illinois, and set up my camera on the balcony of the museum's Spaulding Tower to film the day's main event.
We start off with a shot of the museum's Nebraska Zephyr as it returns to the East Union depot after the last mainline run before the parade. Then, with the mainline clear, the trolleys begin to line up for the parade.
This year's participants in the Trolley Pageant included...
Chicago & West Towns #141 (McGuire-Cummings Mfg. Company, 1924).
Illinois Terminal #415 (St. Louis Car Company. 1924).
Indiana Railroad #65 (Pullman/Pullman-Standard, 1931).
Chicago Surface Lines #3142 (Brill Company, 1923).
Chicago Transit Authority PCC streetcar #4391 (St. Louis Car Company, 1948).
Chicago Surface Lines #144 (Pullman/Pullman-Standard, 1908).
Chicago Surface Lines #1374 (St. Louis Car Company, 1906).
Sand Springs Railway #68 (Cincinnati Car Company, 1918).
Veracruz (Cooperativa de Transportes Urbanos y Sub-Urbanos) open streetcar #19.
Chicago Aurora & Elgin steel interurbans #409, #431 (Cincinnati Car Company, 1927), #460.
Chicago Aurora & Elgin wood interurbans #309 (Hicks, 1908), #36, #308 (Niles, 1906), and #319.
Chicago Rapid Transit motor car #1797 (American Car & Foundry, 1907) and control trailer #1268 (American Car & Foundry, 1907). Both were originally built as control trailers, 1797 was converted to a motor car and had its interior modernized sometime in the 1930's.
Chicago Transit Authority 4000-series cars #4290, #4412, and #4410 (all three Cincinnati Car Company, 1922).
Chicago Transit Authority 2000-series cars #2154 and #2153 (both Pullman-Standard, 1964).
Chicago Transit Authority 6000-series cars (St. Louis Car Company, 1959).
Commonwealth Edison steeplecab #4 (Alco/GE, 1911) pulling a pair of NYC "redbirds".
Wisconsin Electric Power steeplecab L7 (TMER&L, 1931).
Cornwall Street Railway & Light Company #14 (Baldwin/Westinghouse, 1929) and Charles City Western #300 (McGuire-Cummings, 1915).
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee freight motor #229 (Cincinnati Car Company, 1922) pulling Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee line car #604 (Chicago & Milwaukee Electric, 1914).
Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee interurbans #749 (Pullman/Pullman-Standard, 1928), #714 (Cincinnati Car Company, 1926), #160 (Brill, 1915), #757 (Standard Steel Car Company, 1930), #251 (Jewett Car Company, 1917).
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company electric side-dump car D13 (Differential Car Company, 1920) pulling an unrestored side-dump car.
Village of East Troy Wisconsin freight motor M15 (TMER&L, 1920).
Wisconsin Electric Power Company steeplecab L4 (TMER&L, 1920) pulling an unknown express trailer, Chicago South Shore & South Bend #504 (St. Louis Car Company, 1925), and Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee #213 (Cincinnati Car Company, 1919).
Illinois Terminal Railroad boxcab #1565 (Illinois Traction System, 1910) pulling a vintage freight train consisting of Bordens milk tank car #520 (MDC, 1935), Great Northern hopper #70104 (Pullman Standard, 1957), Shippers Car Line three dome tank car #42 (American Car & Foundry, 1935), Great Northern tank car #1390 (American Car & Foundry, 1956), and Chicago & North Western caboose #10304 (American Car & Foundry, 1928).
Illinois Terminal interurban train consisting of cars #277 (St. Louis Car Company, 1913), #518 (St. Louis Car Company, 1911), and #234 (Danville Car Company, 1910). Note the observation platform on the end of car #234.
Illinois Terminal interurban #101 (American Car Company, 1917).
Chicago, South Shore & South Bend line car #1100 (St. Louis Car Company, 1926).
Chicago, South Shore & South Bend interurbans #34 (Standard Steel Car Company, 1929) and #40 (Standard Steel Car Company, 1929).
Illinois Central electric commuter train consisting of #1380 and #1198 (both Pullman/Pullman-Standard, 1925).
I was surprised to see the last three trains operating, as the IC and South Shore run at a different voltage (1500 volts DC versus the 600 volts DC used by the museum). When I asked one of the crew volunteers, they said that they "run them at half-speed."
Thanks for watching!
Awesome!!
Wow, what a show!
We own a big debt to the guys who got together and founded the museum, acquired the equipment, and built the campus. IMHO, the only thing more impressive that what IRM is, is that it was all built by volunteers.
It is so nice to see all vintage equipment , good job guys
Nice video! You got me at 27:28 next to the signal. I'll have my video up soon
Excellent!
This is great! I hope to make it to the Trolley Pageant this year. Thanks for posting this.
I love Pccs!
I love the 1927 vintage South Shore cars
Thanks for the fantastic video. A lot of variety! Nothing like it here in Australia where our state governments prefer to destroy heritage vehicles rather than preserve them.
Apparently they learned from the Southeast Pennsylvania Transi Authority that scrapped most vintage trolley, subway, el cars in Philadelphia. Only a few Broad Street subway cars survive in museums in America plus some Philadelphia trolleys.
Great job! I haven't been able to get up there in years so this was a real treat. Nice view through the trees, verrrry cool. Did I see some asphalt leading off the west side of Olson Road that probably wasn't there about two decades ago? Thanks so much for posting!
Never thought I'd see the 2000s running
Very nice!
I live 15 minutes away, great place!
1:32 Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Trolley.
Alex Crawford lol
The postwar PCC Chicago trolley that you see was the largest city service trolley ever built in America. Even bigger than the ones in Boston.
The inside of the old IC cars is pretty much like the inside of CTA's 4000 Series L cars.
I'm not sure. I checked Google Maps' street view and it does show a small patch of pavement leading to a signal box alongside the museum tracks. Is that what you were referring to?
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The Csr&lc #14, ngl the bell sounds like the 611.
"half speed' = Series only?
That's how I understood it.
Hi Damin. I am producing a documentary about the streetcar and what it was to America and how the museum I volunteer at preserves that history. I am also looking for footage from other museums to show how streetcars have been preserved in several places and this video seems like something I would like to use. Full credit would be given and I do not intend to make any money off the production.
Sure, just let me know which parts you want to use.
Awesome, thank you! And I would only use a few short bits of a few cars coming by the camera.
I read your comment and you might want to include all of "North America" in your streetcar research! One of North America's best-kept secrets is Toronto, Ontario where streetcars still operate across the city on eleven (11) streetcar routes, 24 hours-a-day. It is the ONLY city in North America that still operates streetcars. Before the PCC's were retired back in the 1990's, Toronto had the largest fleet of PCC streetcars in North America, having purchased many of them from U.S. cities that had abandoned the streetcar. The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will be a wealth of information for you regarding streetcars and their preservation into the present day. Toronto still has two fully refurbished PCC streetcars that are used for special events and charters. All of the other streetcar routes across the city are serviced by the more modern CLRV and ALRV streetcars. There are countless videos here on CZcams of the TTC streetcars and I'm sure the info that you could get from the TTC would be overwhelming! Good luck with your project.
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