I took this photo from the platform of the preserved Chicago Transit Authority 50th Avenue rapid transit station from Cicero Illinois, at the Illinois Railway Museum.
This view was a daily one for the Electroliner, as it traveled over part of what is now the Chicago Transit Authority's Brown and Red lines during it's career from 1941 to 1963. This train traveled between Chicago Illinois and Milwaukee Wisconsin. After the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee went out of business due to bankruptcy in 1963, this Electroliner and it's duplicate Twin Electroliner trainset, went to work for the Philadelphia Suburban Transit Company on their high speed Norristown Rapid Transit line. Now retired and occasionally operated at the Illinois Railway Museum, this train has been restored to it's original 1941 Electroliner color scheme.
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