I took this photo inside one of the many display barns at the Illinois Railway Museum. This was the corporate logo of the Illinois Terminal electric interurban railroad, wich served parts of Central, Southern and Southwestern Illinois as well as Saint Louis Missouri. The Illinois Terminal was originally known as the Illinois Traction System. Created during the early 1900's, it operated electric interurban trains until 1956, and suburban trolley car service between St.louis Missouri and Granite City Illinois until 1958. It operated as a freight only diesel powered railroad until it was purchased by the Norfolk & Western Railroad in 1981.
The Illinois Terminal painted their logos on the sides of their orange interurban cars, as well as their freight motors, and later diesel locomotives.
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