Your Host and Photographer at the Illinois Railway Museum at age 14. July 1976.

This photo of Me, was taken on a July 1976 family visit to the Illinois Railway Museum located in Union Illinois. Here I am at age 14, standing beside an old electric trolley bus from Dayton Ohio. The city of Chicago had electric trolley buses from 1930 to 1973. The Chicago Transit Authority ran their last trolleybuses on the weekend of March 24th 1973, but the city of Dayton Ohio was still running theirs.
I had lost My CTA electric trolley buses three years earlier and was still lamenting the loss. Luckilly this example, plus a few secondhand Chicago trolley buses at the museum helped to soften the blow. It was nice to know that some had actually been preserved as early as the 70's.