This image seen here, is one of many I had captured with My digital camera on a recent family visit to the Illinois Railway Museum. In a scene out of electric interurban railroading's past, two sets of operating vintage electric interurban passenger equipment wait at the museum's East Union depot.
The blue cars in the immediate foreground, are two early 1900's era wooden interurban coaches from the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad. The green car in the background, is a mid 1920's era lightweight steel center entrance interurban car from the Illinois Terminal Railroad.
While neither railroad operated anywhere near each other some 50 to 60 years ago and of course much earlier...They are sharing their retirement together at the museum.
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