Retired CTA 1959 vintage 5-50 series rapid transit cars on display at the preserved 50th Avenue station. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois.

I took this photo on a recent family visit to the Illinois Railway Museum, located in the small town of Union Illinois.

Two retired Chicago Transit Authority 5-50 series lightweight rapid transit cars from the 1959 /1960 era, are seen on display at the museum's 50th Avenue CTA rapid transit station from west suburban Cicero Illinois.

The old wooden CTA 50th Avenue station was located approximately two city blocks west of South Cicero Avenue, on what was then the CTA Douglas Park Elevated line.
This little wooden rapid transit station was in service until 1978, when the CTA built a new and very modern station that is two city blocks long. This was done as such to accomodate 8 car rush hour trains. The old CTA 50th Avenue station was trucked to the Illinois Railway Museum shortly after being decommisioned from service.

Although the town of Union Illinois is a small farming town in a quaint rural setting, this scene is purely right out of Chicago's past. It is nicely reanacted.