I took this frozen off season view, at the Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin Illinois. Seen here looking west from the service road that leads to the museum shop building, is an eclectic collection of Rapid Transit equipment from the Chicago Transit Authority. The silver and red train to the left, is an experimantal 3 unit articulated lightweight train built in 1945 for CTA predesscor company Chicago Rapid Transit Company. To the right is a 1920's era rapid transit car also used by the same company, and retired from the CTA in the early 1970's. To the far right, is 6000 series protoype # 6101 and 6102 built in the early 1950's from components salvaged from scrapped CTA PCC Green Hornet electric streetcars. The 1945 St.Louis Car Company 3 unit articulated trains were retired in 1986 after serving many years on the Skokie Swift, wich is todays CTA Yellow Line. The # 6101 and # 6102 married pair 6000's were retired sometime during the 1990's.The red and gray wooden waiting shanty, originally was used by the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin electric interurban railroad. The C,A & E right of way is now the Illinois Prarie Path bicycle trail.
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