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HISTORY |
What appears below is a listing of future chapter titles. Beneath each chapter title is a rough sketch of that chapter's content.
Introduction
What is an Interurban?
What was the Great Third Rail?
The Beginning (1899-1902)
The Fox River Valley
Everett-Moore syndicate and the Aurora and Chicago Ry (1899)
Pomeroy-Mandelbaum syndicate and the Chicago, Wheaton & Aurora RR (1899)
Aurora, Wheaton & Chicago Ry (1899)
Franchise acquisition
First six cars (1902)
Up and Running (1902-1906)
Service Begins (1902)
Service to Batavia (1902)
Service to Elgin (1903)
Parlor service begins (1904)
Service to downtown Chicago (1905)
Service to Mt. Carmel (1906)
The Third Rail Division (1906-1915)
The Elgin, Aurora and Southern Traction Company
The Merger (1906)
The Chicago, Wheaton & Western and Geneva (1908-9)
Service to St. Charles (1910)
Fire destroys general offices (1913)
Hard Times (1915-1922)
Second Aurora Terminal (1915)
Receivership (1919)
Foreclosure
The House Divided and Sold
The Conway Era (1922-1926)
Conway
The Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railroad
Locomotives 2001 and 2002
Infrastructure rehabilitation
Pullmans (1923)
“New” Parlor Cars
Conway Called Away
The Insull Era (1926-1932)
Insull
The North Shore, South Shore, and the “Big Three”
Cincinnatis (1927)
Car 500 (1927)
End of Parlor service and 435 & 436 (1929)
Black Tuesday (1929)
Insull Steps Down (1932)
The Depression (1932-1941)
North Shore woods (1936)
Ex-WB&A cars (1937-8)
Geneva Branch Abandoned (1937)
New Aurora Terminal (1939)
St. Louis cars ordered (1941)
World War II (1941-1945)
Pearl Harbor
St. Louis cars delayed
War Paint
Aurora & Elgin and North Shore equipment swaps (1942)
The Postwar Years (1945-1953)
St. Louis cars arrive (1945)
(plan: 461-468 and 10 2-car articulateds)
Congress Superhighway
Temporary Garfield Park wooden trestle
Alderman James B. Bowler (Chi 25th ward)
Garfield Park street running on Van Buren
The Last Train from Wells Street
Last Stop: Forest Park (1953-1957)
"Loop in a loop" terminal at Forest Park (1953)
July 3rd, 1957 and the Evening Commute
Only Freight Trains Run Here (1957-1959)
The Big Tour (1958)
The Languishing Days (1959-1961)
Scrapped (1961-1963)
The Rails are Gone but the Path Remains
Rails-to-Trails and the Illinois Prairie Path
Villa Park stations preserved
Aurora Terminal platform demolished (1991)