This is an idea of what a head end motorman / operators view looks like from a 1902 vintage wooden interurban coach.We have just departed Castlemuir depot at the Fox River Trolley Museum, and are now proceeding southbound along the museum's demonstration branchline. In the early 1900's, this electric rail line was the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Railroad. The line once travelled all the way from Elgin to Yorkville Illinois through scenic, rural and very undeveloped Illinois farm country. ( Unheard of by todays standards.)
In it's last years, the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River was a very short industrial shortline railroad that delivered coal to a large hospital in South Elgin Illinois behind a small General Electric 45 Ton side rod centercab diesel locomotive.
After the hospital converted to natural gas energy in the very early 1970's, the line was abandoned and sold to a group from the newly former Relic Trolley Museum. Today, this line can be ridden today on weekends from May to October.
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