Rear view of 1951 CTA Trolley bus. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. August 2006.

Seen here inside the museum bus garage, is an everyday view from My childhood that I never thought I would see again. This is a 1951 Marmon Herrington Corporation electric trolley bus from the Chicago Transit Authority. As a kid growing up on Chicago's near southwest side, My family and I frequently rode these on the Route # 52 Kedzie / California bus line. This route was converted to propane and diesel bus operation in March of 1969, as a new bridge was being built on the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal. Two of the last lines to use these were the route #54B Cicero Avenue line, and the Route # 53 Pulaski line. These two lines ended electric bus service on March 24th 1973. Some of the other CTA lines that had used them were the Route # 77 Belmont Avenue -Route # 80 Irving Park -Route# 85 Central Avenue -Route# 47 47th Street and the route # 74 Fullerton Avenue lines. The CTA had 20 routes using trolley buses, but not all at the same time.