This old relic of pre CTA days, can be ridden on at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois. This is an early transit coach built by "White Trucks" in 1944. Although electric streetcars were the main transit vechicles during these times, buses were also used on some routes to augment the equipment, or were utilized on lightly patronized lines. This bus has a manual "Stick Shift" transmission. After retirement by the CTA, this bus was retained as part of their Historical Collection. This bus as well as the remaining streetcars (long sitting is storage) were donated to the museum in 1985.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Chicago Surface Lines 1944 White Bus.
This old relic of pre CTA days, can be ridden on at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois. This is an early transit coach built by "White Trucks" in 1944. Although electric streetcars were the main transit vechicles during these times, buses were also used on some routes to augment the equipment, or were utilized on lightly patronized lines. This bus has a manual "Stick Shift" transmission. After retirement by the CTA, this bus was retained as part of their Historical Collection. This bus as well as the remaining streetcars (long sitting is storage) were donated to the museum in 1985.
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These were still running on Cicero from Cermak & Kenton to 63rd Place in the 1950's.
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