The Illinois Railway Museum's collection of Vintage buses has been growing in recent years. The blue bus in the foreground is a 1944 transit coach built by the Ford Motor Company. This bus is painted blue with markings for the West Towns Bus Company. The West Towns Bus Company operated suburban bus service mainly in Chicago's western suburbs untill the RTA was formed in 1974. The West Towns Bus Company was headquartered in Oak Park Illinois, and operated buses in such towns as Cicero -Berwyn Oak park -La Grange -Melrose Park -Maywood Forest Park -and Brookfield Illinois. This bus was not an original West Towns 1944 Ford, as this one came from California. It is painted to represent a West Towns bus and makes a good looking and very believable "Stand In" for a model that escaped local preservation.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
1944 Ford transit coach.The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. August 2006.
The Illinois Railway Museum's collection of Vintage buses has been growing in recent years. The blue bus in the foreground is a 1944 transit coach built by the Ford Motor Company. This bus is painted blue with markings for the West Towns Bus Company. The West Towns Bus Company operated suburban bus service mainly in Chicago's western suburbs untill the RTA was formed in 1974. The West Towns Bus Company was headquartered in Oak Park Illinois, and operated buses in such towns as Cicero -Berwyn Oak park -La Grange -Melrose Park -Maywood Forest Park -and Brookfield Illinois. This bus was not an original West Towns 1944 Ford, as this one came from California. It is painted to represent a West Towns bus and makes a good looking and very believable "Stand In" for a model that escaped local preservation.
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There was also a Bluebird Bus Line tht ran from downtown Chicago out Archer past Midway, out 63rd to Archer in Summit, then through Lemont to Joliet. They must have evaporated in the early 1960's.
I have heard about the Blue Bird bus company since I was a kid.
If anybody has any photos of one of their buses, I would really like to see one.
I never got to see or ride Blue Bird suburban buses first hand, other than the Blue Bird school buses I rode on school field trips in the 1970's. But that is a totally different company and that doesn't count at all.
Thank You.
Eddie.
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