Retired CTA 1955 Flxible / Twin Coach bus reanacting a scene from Chicago's blizzard of 1967. The Midwest Transit Bus Museum. crest Hill Illinois. January 2001., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.
This is Eddie K, your host and photographer here at Eddie's Railfan Page.
From 1999 to 2001, I was employed as a delivery truck driver in Romeoville Illinois. One morning in the year of 2000, I discovered the collection of the Midwest Transit Bus Museum in nearby Cresthill Illinois behind a fence in an industrial storage lot, and soo became a member of this museum group from 2000 to 2002.
I took this photograph during a January 2001 visit to the museum one day after work. This derelict (Non operational.) Chicago Transit Authority 1955 Flxible Twin Coach Comapny 40 foot propane transit bus, is viewed parked along a snowbank in the storage lot.
I spotted this as a unique photo opportunity, to reanact a possible scene from Chicago's infamous blizzard of January 1967. Many older Chicagoans will occasionally still talk about how the city was buried in a record freak snowstorm in 1967, and how the city pretty much came to a standstill with stranded motorists, tall snownbanks and abandoned vehicles on the unplowed city streets.
The CTA had plenty of Twin Coach Company
propane buses on their fleet in 1967. They were retired from daily transit service by 1973.
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